Hey BRUCE,

18 Jun 04 12:02, you wrote to me:

 BC> -=> Quoting Dan Egli to Bruce Clark <=-

 BC>> I'm contemplating updating to a:
 BC>> Mobile Intel Pentium 4 Processor 2.8GHz with Hyper-Threading
 BC>> Technology 1GB 333MHz DDR SDRAM (2-512MB modules) 60GB 4200rpm
 BC>> Ultra ATA hard drive Integrated DVD-R/-RW/CD-RW recorder

 BC>> But I would like to retain my favorite DOS & Win 3.1 programs
 BC>> from the
 BC>>  ten year old computer I am using now.

 DE>> 90% of them will be fine as long as they used nothing but the
 DE>> standard Win16 API. It's the funky ones that used extensions like
 DE>> WinG that will give issues now.

 BC> What is WinG?
 BC> And is there an easy way to tell if an old windows program uses it?

WinG was an attempt at 3D graphics (or REAL high res graphics, for those
days) under 3.1. If you are running under 3.x you will recognise WinG by
the funky startup test it does on first load and on the first load after
changing any display settings. Whole bunch of lines that sometimes form
sinuous lines, sometimes form circles, etc.. and blocks change here and
there.

-- Dan

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