jpalmer@uwovax.uwo.ca (The Econoclast) (08/18/90)
I recently upgraded to a 386-25 with 8 megs of ram. Until now, I've been using Software Carousel to task switch on a 286 with 4megs of ram, but I guess it's time to start multitasking. But so far no luck. I have windows 3.0, but when I try to run it in enhanced mode, the screen goes blank. I have an ATIVIP graphics card and a TTL monitor. I'm hoping that ATI's new drivers will solve that problem. My preference, though, is to use Desqview, so I borrowed a copy of 2.25 to try it. It has problems with SideKick+ and with WordPerfect 5.0 in 43-line mode. Are these known problems? Have they been fixed in 2.26? I am not interested in buying DV with these problems. -- reply to jpalmer@uwovax.uwo.ca The Economics Institute for Journalists John Palmer London, Ontario Voice: (519) 661-3533 FAX: 661-3292 ============================================================================ The New Economics: Overlapping Generalizations & Rationalized Expectorations
noelroy@kean.ucs.mun.ca (Noel Roy, Economics Dept., Memorial University) (08/22/90)
In article <6729.26cd1418@uwovax.uwo.ca>, jpalmer@uwovax.uwo.ca (The Econoclast) writes: > I recently upgraded to a 386-25 with 8 megs of ram. Until now, I've been > using Software Carousel to task switch on a 286 with 4megs of ram, but > I guess it's time to start multitasking. But so far no luck. > > I have windows 3.0, but when I try to run it in enhanced mode, the screen > goes blank. I have an ATIVIP graphics card and a TTL monitor. I'm hoping > that ATI's new drivers will solve that problem. > > My preference, though, is to use Desqview, so I borrowed a copy of 2.25 > to try it. It has problems with SideKick+ and with WordPerfect 5.0 in > 43-line mode. Are these known problems? Have they been fixed in 2.26? I > am not interested in buying DV with these problems. > John, Try going into Change a Program, and be sure the "Writes directly to screen" and (if you want to run the programs in a DV window) "Virtualize test/graphics" fields are set to Y. Then, go to the second screen, and set "Maximum rows" to 43. I've tried this with WordPerfect 5.0 running under DV 2.26, with a *V*GA, and it works OK. I presume the same applies to Sidekick+, but haven't tested it. By the way WordPerfect works fine in 25-line mode with the "Writes directly to screen" and "Virtualize test/graphics" fields set to N. Indeed, this is the optimum setting in this case, since screen writes are faster. > -- > reply to jpalmer@uwovax.uwo.ca The Economics Institute for Journalists > John Palmer London, Ontario Voice: (519) 661-3533 FAX: 661-3292 > ============================================================================ > The New Economics: Overlapping Generalizations & Rationalized Expectorations -- Dr. Noel Roy bitnet: NOELROY@MUN Department of Economics internet: noelroy@kean.ucs.mun.ca Memorial University of Newfoundland cdnnet: noelroy@kean.mun.cdn St. John's, Newfoundland A1C 5S7 Canada