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From: jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Backgrounding Fractint in Windows3.0
Message-ID: <4815@hsv3.UUCP>
Date: 14 Sep 90 21:09:57 GMT
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In article <1990Sep14.015721.813@contact.uucp> guy@contact.uucp (Guy Lemieux) writes:
>Sorry, Windows 3.0 will not run a graphics program in the background.  Period.

Sorry, but Windows 3.0 *will* run graphics programs in the background.
You just need to clarify the situation a little.  For example, I can run
a 640x480x16 graphics program in a window using the 8514/A driver, because
the Virtual Display Driver which comes with the 8514/A supports that.  The
problem with the VGA VDD is that Microsoft short-sightedly said, "Well, who's
going to run a 640x480 display in a window on a 640x480 desktop?" without
thinking that some of us might have 1024x768 VGAs.  I think, however, that
you can pull off 320x200 resolutions (oh boy) and the like in a window
on the VGA.
-- 
Jim Seidman (Drax), the accidental engineer.
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