From: ellman AT xs4all DOT nl ()
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Subject: Re: Some Allegro and other questions.
Date: 8 Feb 1997 23:52:16 GMT
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Shawn Hargreaves (Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk) wrote:
: Christian Tamasiu writes:

: >2. Whenever I use a allegro program in a WIN95 dosbox, the mouse movement
: >   gets incredibly slow. How can this be fixed?

: This problem has been reported from time to time, but I've never been
: able to reproduce it on any machines I have access to, so I really don't
: know what to suggest.

Perhaps Christian is running the win95 dosbox as a window instead of a
fullscreen win95 dos session (which is different from an exclusive dis session
(ie. one where windows95 isn't running in the background)). I've noticed that
graphically intense programs don't run well when the dosbox is just a window,
but when you change to fullscreen mode, the program runs almost as smoothly as
it would do under an exclusive dos session (sometimes, the smoothness is the
same).


AE.

PS. If you're constantly being plagued by Allegro programs asking if they want
to be run from a full dos session, then go to the .EXE of the program,
right-click on it, and select it's properties. Under the 'program' tab, select
the "Advanced" button and then remove the tick from the "Suggest MS-DOS mode
as necessary". To ensure your program always runs in full screen mode,
select the 'Screen' tab and select the "full screen" radio button in the usage
section. Starting Allegro programs should be a much happier experience.

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