DOS ain't dead

VGAPaint 386 -- works on my old 486 (at least) (DOSX)

posted by jassenna, Campinas,SP,Brazil, 27.08.2007, 01:27

> He's probably just busy or (less likely) it worked perfectly in
> FreeDOS an he's too busy having fun to respond

I just quit using VP386. It does cause a general protection fault
when selecting "Info" from the top menu and some unrecoverable
fault when attempting to start with an options file . Maybe later
DOSes have better fault handlers, having been designed to work with
Windows.
I am using NeoPaint for DOS (www.neosoftware.com). Compared with
VP it has the advantages:
1) Worked without a glitch from day 0 until now.
2) Has an user interface much like other (graphics video mode)
DOS programs.
3) Use no DOS extender, working in low memory and swapping overlays
and data to/from XMS or EMS. I think this an advantage because all
mysterious crashes and incompatibilities between programs I met
under DOS did concern programs which use DOS extenders.
and the disadvantage:
It is shareware, US$40 registration.

Complete thread:

• VGAPaint 386 -- works on my old 486 (at least) - Rugxulo, 22.07.2007, 00:50 (DOSX)
  • VGAPaint 386 -- works on my old 486 (at least) - rr, 22.07.2007, 21:27
    • VGAPaint 386 -- works on my old 486 (at least) - DOS386, 23.07.2007, 02:38
      • VGAPaint 386 -- works on my old 486 (at least) - rr, 23.07.2007, 09:21
    • VGAPaint 386 -- works on my old 486 (at least) - Rugxulo, 25.07.2007, 01:16
      • VGAPaint 386 -- works on my old 486 (at least) - jassenna, 27.08.2007, 01:27
        • VGAPaint 386 -- works on my old 486 (at least) - Rugxulo, 27.08.2007, 01:39
          • VGAPaint 386 -- works on my old 486 (at least) - roberto, 27.08.2007, 13:40
            • VGAPaint 386 -- works on my old 486 (at least) - rr, 27.08.2007, 17:47
        • VGAPaint 386 -- works on my old 486 (at least) BUG hunting - DOS386, 29.08.2007, 15:34
          • VGAPaint 386 -- works on my old 486 (at least) BUG hunting - rr, 29.08.2007, 21:42
            • VGAPaint 386 -- works on my old 486 (at least) BUG hunting - Rugxulo, 30.08.2007, 03:28
          • VGAPaint 386 -- works on my old 486 (at least) BUG hunting - jassenna, 06.09.2007, 06:14