Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!helios!cnh5730 From: cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu (Charles Herrick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: WingZ/SoftPC/Framemaker/Powerstep/Browser Bugs Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 91 15:39:59 GMT References: <17513@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <1991Jun27.210806.26867@news.stolaf.edu> <1991Jun27.181538.7578@mic.ucla.edu> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Organization: Texas A&M University Lines: 23 In-reply-to: iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu's message of 28 Jun 91 01:15:38 GMT In article <1991Jun27.181538.7578@mic.ucla.edu> iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) writes: If you intend to purchase and/or use *, be aware that SoftPC V2.0 cannot handle EGA or CGA high-res graphics produced by Minitab, which uses the popular Halo graphics libraries. Minitab simply gives an error, which translates into "Unimplemented graphics Function." This is a real pity; I bought SoftPC to run Minitab (one of my favorite quick-and-dirty statistics packages). It is unfortunate that your favorite app doesn't run under SoftPC. It is also true that PC graphics is a very difficult swamp to traverse for PC emulators. As an example, PC apps can bypass MS-DOS and do nasty things directly with video RAM, so it is possible to write PC stuff that breaks under DOS emulators. I'm certain it's not much consolation, but this is a caveat emptor situation, both on the PC app side and the PC emulator side. I'd imagine the SoftPC folks would like to hear about it. -- "I am walking on the wire and the wire is what the whole thing is about." -- John Stewart