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posted by Laaca Homepage, Czech republic, 01.09.2019, 17:48

> > 1) Your NDN version does not work for me under windows 98 (but yes, in
> pure
> > DOS is it OK)
> NDN tries to detect some emulators. This is probably the cause of the
> conflict with windows 98 DPMI. Try run NDN with option /NOEMU.
> There is already a new version of NDN for DOS32.
> Thank you for report.
OK, I made few more tests.

1) In private mail I complained about F10 key. The util you send reports the right code for F10 (0x004400). I found that the problem is in other place.
Normaly I have hidden the main menu in the first row.
After pressing F10 I expect the showing this menu with some highlighted item and I should be able to navigated with arrows to other oetms and submenus.
But in the current build of NDN. The menu is activated but the first row is still hidden. But if I press down arrow the submenu items are normaly shown.
However when I in the [configuration] -- [interface] disable the item "hide menu bar" everything works OK but the menu is still visible in the first line which is not ideal...

2) About Windows 98 incompatibility:
I tried the original distrubution (2.31.5474v) and I tried to patch the exacutable by your STUB.BAT utility. The behaviour is exactly the same, so:
a) NDN.COM without any parameters -- the program immediately crashes into windows error message which is english should be something like "Program executed an not allowed operation and will be terminated. Close all programs and restart the computer." Sometimes recoveres after CTRL-ALT-DEL but usually I have to press Reset.
b) NDN.COM /noemu -- NDN loads, successfuly switches the videomode and draws everything what should. The clock in the upper right corner are working and the dot between mins and secs in blinking.
But the keyboard does not respond, mouse does not respond and even if I run the NDN not in fullscreen but in windows (so I can see other program windows) the keyboard and mouse are completely frozen.

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