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   Markus.Humm to Jason Burgon   
   Re: bgi and widescreen   
   26 Jan 07 18:54:52   
   
   From: markus.humm@freenet.de   
      
   Jason Burgon schrieb:   
   > Earlier I wrote:   
   >   
   [snip]   
      
   > With 98SE, I can detect that the GV program is running in a Windows 95+ DOS   
   > box and safely reprogram the PIT#0 reload register to half its normal value.   
   > I can't do this in DOSBox because the program doesn't know it's being run   
   > inside an emulator. I could just reprogram the timer register anyway, but   
   > this ~might~ break some real DOS'es.   
      
   Why not implement a command line switch for this?   
      
   >   
   > Other DOSBox problems:   
   >   
   > (1) It only provides 2MB of video memory.   
      
   Did you already request a upgrade of dosbox's graphics card? ;-)   
      
   > (2) The maximum screen resolution seems to be limited to 1024x768   
   > (2) Long file names are not supported.   
      
   Oh! That's bad but I fear LFNs are just out of their scope.   
      
   Greetings   
      
   Markus   
      
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