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Bill H.
How can I get a DOS program to display full screen in Vista Home Premium?
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Dave
Run an emulator program, like Dosbox..
http://www.dosbox.com/
http://www.dosbox.com/
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Bill H.
That's the only option?
Hm.
--Bill
Hm.
--Bill
Dave said:Run an emulator program, like Dosbox..
http://www.dosbox.com/
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Dave N.
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Andrew McLaren
Hi Bill,
The options are very limited - DosBox may be the best(and perhaps, the
only).
Vista uses a new video driver model (so-called "WDDM") which allows the
fancy composition displays in Vista. The Windows developers explicitly
dropped support for the full-screen VGA Mode, in the WDDM code. There
were considerable technical problems in making that full-screen mode
work in the new WDDM regime, and it was deemed "not worth it" for the
small number of user scenarios where character-mode apps needed to run
full-screen on a Vista machine. This issue was reported several times
during the Vista Beta programme.
Dedicated devices like POS cash registers generally run Windows
Embedded, not Vista; so they didn't count.
Regards
Andrew
The options are very limited - DosBox may be the best(and perhaps, the
only).
Vista uses a new video driver model (so-called "WDDM") which allows the
fancy composition displays in Vista. The Windows developers explicitly
dropped support for the full-screen VGA Mode, in the WDDM code. There
were considerable technical problems in making that full-screen mode
work in the new WDDM regime, and it was deemed "not worth it" for the
small number of user scenarios where character-mode apps needed to run
full-screen on a Vista machine. This issue was reported several times
during the Vista Beta programme.
Dedicated devices like POS cash registers generally run Windows
Embedded, not Vista; so they didn't count.
Regards
Andrew
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Bill H.
Thanks for the additional info!
--Bill
--Bill
Andrew McLaren said:Hi Bill,
The options are very limited - DosBox may be the best(and perhaps, the
only).
Vista uses a new video driver model (so-called "WDDM") which allows the
fancy composition displays in Vista. The Windows developers explicitly
dropped support for the full-screen VGA Mode, in the WDDM code. There were
considerable technical problems in making that full-screen mode work in
the new WDDM regime, and it was deemed "not worth it" for the small number
of user scenarios where character-mode apps needed to run full-screen on a
Vista machine. This issue was reported several times during the Vista Beta
programme.
Dedicated devices like POS cash registers generally run Windows Embedded,
not Vista; so they didn't count.
Regards
Andrew