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Re: WinOS2 and the MACH64

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From: Sean Allen Decker
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 16:17
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In article <3hfckm$r3r@babbage.ece.uc.edu> dwilliam@thor (Douglas Williams) writes:
>From: dwilliam@thor (Douglas Williams)
>Subject: Re: WinOS2 and the MACH64
>Date: 10 Feb 1995 09:45:58 GMT

>Mark Krischer (mkrisch@mpce.mq.edu.au) wrote:
>: alright, i have yet to get both OS2 and Windows to run together in
>: using the Mach64 driver.  if i have both use the VGA driver everything
>: works fine.  if i use the mach64 driver, i can get 1024x768x256 in os2
>: but when i run windows using the fmacx and smacx drivers for full
>: and window winos2 the screen goes blank.  everything's still there
>: though.  in full mode, i can alt-f4 and exit windows and get back to
>: an os2 screen i can see.  in windowed mode, if i hit alt-f4 i think
>: windows exits, because if i hit alt-f4 again i hear the sound of an
>: os2 folder closing.


I installed Warp using the given mach64 driver. I also already had windows 
loaded with the mach64 driver for it, and when I do run win/os2 I have now 
problems.  Maybe knowing in what order you installed everything. ie did you 
already have windows installed, or did you reformat the drive and then install 
win/os2 support.  I could make a big difference
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Subject: Re: WinOS2 and the MACH64
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