Hello,

Now that my exams are (finally) over, I decided to be somewhat creative during this week of vacation, and try to do some 'oldskool' pixeling (have a look at http://www.gfxzone.org).

I found this nice Deluxe Paint-like drawing application Grafx2 (binaries and sources at http://members.cox.net/dos/graphx02.htm#bitmappaint). As it's a DOS application, it doesn't work 100% under Windows 2000 😒. VGA modes work nicely, but higher-resolution VESA modes are a problem. During my search for a solution, I noticed the "enable basic VESA support" in a screenshot of VDMsLaunchpad (I used VDMSound for playing some games before - a great tool indeed, but didn't know about ithis VESA option).

Now, with this VESA option enabled in VDMS (all sound emulation disabled, as it isn't required), and running NoLFB, I can get Grafx2 to run in higher resolutions. Unfortunately, the mouse pointer movement is restricted to a box in the upper left corner, which makes these higher resolutions pretty useless 🙁.

Does this problem occur in other apps/games too? Is there a fix for it?

I also tried another drawing program, Pixler (http://www.westerstrom.com/projects/pixler/pixler.html). This one does work without any pointer trouble in the VESA resolutions though.

Another, very annoying problem when enabling the VESA option in VDMS, that occurs with both apps, is the fact that alt-tabbing is dangerous... the screen will freeze (displaying the DOS application), but Windows remaing running normally.

Regards,
darklite

AMD K6-2
Riva TNT2 M64
Windows 2000 SP3

PS. I understand the VDMS author reads this forum? Otherwise I'll forward this post to him by email.