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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              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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