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joel@peora.ccur.com (Joel Upchurch) writes:

>Yes what Z-Soft did kind of sucks, but maybe you can do what I did.
>When I bumped up against the limits of the Version of Paintbrush
>bundled with Windows I also asked about upgrading my PC Paintbrush +
>for Windows for 3.0. They said that Windows 3.0 version wouldn't be
>ready for quite a while and suggested I upgrade to PC Paintbrush IV+.
>If supports all the nice SuperVga modes on my card (Paradise VGA Pro)
>and runs quite nicely as a DOS application under the 386 mode of
>Windows. In fact, I suspect that this is the best way to run it, since
>a lot of the functions eat expanded memory like it's going out of
>style and I suspect that the performance is better than the Windows
>version will be. Another advantage is that you don't have to restart
>Windows if you want to go from say 640x480x256 to 800x600x2 modes. I
>set up seperate .BAT and PIF files for the modes I want to use and
>then set menu selections in CMDPOST for them.

>If your VGA card and printer are on the supported list for IV+ you
>might want to try it.

Yes they are.  I have a Video 7 VRAM VGA (which I think is quite nice).
There is just one little biddy problem with it.  When you start a DOS
app from Win3, you cannot change video modes.  I have had this problem
with DesignCAD 2D and just now I tried it with PC PaintBrush IV Plus.
It locked the DOS session.  I'm going to have to get out of news and
restart Windows to clear it up.  Others have complained about this here
in comp.windows.ms about the other video modes with WordImperfect.
Video 7 says "That's not a bug.  It's a feature."  It supposedly keeps
'ill-behaved" programs from messing things up (or something like that).
I personally don't see how that can be worse than crashing a DOS
session.  Maybe it is.

Still, I have a one-year-old copy of Paintbrush for Windows that has
never been used.  I think I'll check out the competition.
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