Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!sdd.hp.com!caen!uwm.edu!linac!midway!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!orion!supat From: supat@orion (Supat) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Explosiv working on VGA, not Z159 CGA, more Keywords: explosiv Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 91 13:07:55 GMT References: Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 29 sophist@brainiac.raidernet.com (Phillip McReynolds) writes: >monkey@wabash.engin.umich.edu (Monkey King) writes: >> Explosiv works quite well on our Gateway 486 w/ VGA card too. Only one thing explosive use vga screen. so if any software use different screen then explosive is not display but it work. ============================== >> -- >> 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