Re: bug in 4.0 build 1249
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Dec 10, 2008
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nope the full screen dos has been completly removed from vista it even pops up a nice little error message telling you so :) . unfortunatly my laptop is one of those horrible crippled hp jobbies so i can't install xp on it without a hell of a lot of fiddling and half the devices don't have xp drivers for it anyway.
it's a wonderful laptop, i love it in fact, especially the screen. and for my first windows only machine in 10 years it's great i just wish hp weren't such control freaks screwign with the bios and not providing XP drivers for their stuff in it etc.
[linux would be running on it except for one or two bugs that make linux not an option for my current work habits and needs]
Well, you could always go back to plain VGA/VESA drivers. No WDM, but full screen DOS on Vista. http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B812681&x=9&y=14
If you can get solvbe http://sol.gfxile.net/solvbe.html working on Vista, you can have full screen mode DOS graphics and Vista's WDM (solvbe overrides int10 and simulates the operations on an OpenGL screen via WGL).
