Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mjbtn!raider!brainiac!sophist From: sophist@brainiac.raidernet.com (Phillip McReynolds) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Explosiv working on VGA, not Z159 CGA, more Keywords: explosiv Message-ID: Date: 26 Jun 91 15:46:41 GMT References: Organization: Phillip's Philosophy Shop, Nashville TN Lines: 22 monkey@wabash.engin.umich.edu (Monkey King) writes: > Explosiv works quite well on our Gateway 486 w/ VGA card too. Only one thing > -- > Xinbing Liu > Ultrafast Science Lab > University of Michigan Even "real" (uSoft) screen savers like IdleWild do this IF YOU HAPPEN TO BE WORKING IN A NON-WINDOWS APPLICATION (either windowed or fullscreen). Apparently, the non-windows application (4dos.com) grabs the keyboard interrupt and windows cannot tell whether the keyboard is active or not (or, more likely, it assumes that it is inactive). I doubt that there is a fix for this other than (perhaps) Windows 3.01. Regards, -- sophist@brainiac.raidernet.com (Phillip McReynolds) !Path: ...!uunet!mjbtn!raider!brainiac!sophist Brainiac BBS -- (615)333-1243 -- Open 24 Hours a day! -- Nashville, TN 37211