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I really can't say I know anything about it yet, but I'd be willing to bet it's dead in the water. The other night, a guy tried running game I made using OpenGL on Vista and his pc went haywire. My point is, if they're having that much trouble with OpenGL, QB must probably be totally borked. :-\
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Eek! No wonder I've only seens one vista machine here in my country. Yep one.
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Clearly the best thing you can do with it yes.
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lmao great vid...yeah I'm avoiding vista. Especially since MS says their next OS will be out in 2010. Only reason to upgrade would be dx10, but there are a decent number of games staying away from that anyway...
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Someone over at the Network54 / QBasic.com forum posted recently about how they managed to tweak Vista so that it could run QB well.
I'd look for the post, but I'm in a bit of a rush.
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That's quite impressive really :o
Gotta swing by there and look.
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I searched through the forums there a bit and found
http://www.network54.com/Forum/13959/mes...189377861/ . I still would like to play with Vista first hand to see what its like.
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I just got an hp notebook with vista home premium (32-bit). Compared to XP, it is a bad and slow system with a very few good things. The worse thing was that the graphic qbasic programs I wrote years ago got screwed up.
t worked beautifully in XP - full screen, all graphic.
In vista, despite not being a 64-bit system, and working in xp compatibility mode I ran into two problems:
1. Small window. (no matter how I play with the vista parameters, the program runs in the smallest possible window. I have not tried to downgrade to 800 by 600 screen because I dont think this will resolve the issue and also because I am already upset with the way vista randomly moves around desktop icons when I restart the system... but this is another story).
2. No graphics. - That kills the program.
Those vista guys are really nasty. If xp can run a qbsic program in full screen without having to do any gimmick, why couldnt they make a nice compatibility mode for DOS programs?
Does anyone know I way to fix those two problems? I would appreciate your help.
Thanks, Jacobb
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By the way, I read Pete's suggestion in the mentioned network forum and it really works although with a slight cut off of a slice of the screen because, I believe, of a size distortion. But at least it works.
He also mentions an wp driver inside the vista which could solve the graphics side of the problem but screws up the aero display feature of vista.
Does anyone know how to get and insert that xp driver and what is the aero display function?
Thanks
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I tried it once on a Vista box at school, it hardly worked.
I can get it running fine with DOS Box in Vista and Linux.
In fact it runs better in Linux.
-yah
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