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From: jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Jason Merrill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Desqview and SVGA
Message-ID: <4437@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 16 Feb 90 21:48:57 GMT
References: <29189@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <29189@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@pepsi.amd.com () writes:
>As far as I can tell, Desqview has no support for Super VGA or any
>extended video modes. If you want to use anything better than IBM VGA,
>you are out of luck. Is this true and does anyone know of plans to
>improve the situation? Maybe I should just dump DV for MS Windows...

It depends on what you mean by "support".  Desqview will let the program
display whatever it wants to; however, it doesn't save the screen unless it
recognises the video mode.  If you are working in 800x600 and switch to
another window, your diplay won't be there when you get back.

This could probably be remedied with a SuperVGA driver (GRFSVGA.DVR?).  Does
anyone have one of these, or know the format for DV screen drivers?

A question:  320x200x256 screens don't come out right on my display when
running things under DV.  The resolution is right, and the picture is
preserved, but it seems to be working with too few colors; many of them are
mapped to black rather than the correct color.  This doesn't happen in SVGA
modes...why is this?

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