First post, by mootube
I've read a few threads here on the problems I'm facing, running old games on XP. I found this post that might offer a solution to this. I thought some people here would be interested in this. This method seems to take a different approach than others I've found so far, though I know next to nothing about the subject myself.
http://www.programmersheaven.com/c/MsgBoard/r … ting=P9999F0001
"The REAL reason that VESA will not work under XP or win2000 is that neither of those will permit your program to access the registers of the video card directly. All attempts are trapped. Only drivers which work in a privileged mode can do this. There is a "universal" driver called "Giveio.sys" which, when installed removes the access traps in XP and Win2000. You are then back to what you want. It can be found on the net."
This could be irrelevant or the holy grail, I'm not really sure. Perhaps something could be developed along these lines or even from this existing file to mre suit the purposes of XP compatability. I'd be interested in any replies to this.
One other thing. When I registered with a hotmail account, the email was put straight into the hotmail junk folder. Perhaps the forum admin would want to fix this issue.