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echo: bluewave
to: DAN EGLI
from: BRUCE CLARK
date: 2004-06-18 23:55:00
subject: Blue Wave under XP

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

 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?

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

Considering that my normal graphics are greyscale LCD 640x480 VGA, 
with 256 color an option if I plug in the VGA PC card for an external 
monitor, I probably don't have to worry about that. 


I'm just hoping that the: 
"Hyper-Threading" Mobile Intel Pentium 4 Processor 
won't have any problems running 16bit Win3.1 programs like one tech 
support person said. 


 
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