Re: XGS/32 v1.0b - Released!!

[Charles Stephens <devnull@dobbs.eng.sun.com>]

>>>>> "SWM" == Steven W Mentzer <smentzer@ecom.net> writes:

 >> Now there's good news!!!  I was wondering what was going to become of
 >> XGS!!
 >> 
 >> Since I just recently installed NT4 server here, at least I can check
 >> it out.  
 >> 
 >> Just curious, what's the issue with 95/98 and XGS?
 >> 


 SWM> There are some minor threading differences between Win95 and
 SWM> NT. Unfortunately, throw Direct/X (actually DirectDraw only)
 SWM> into the mix, and some Win95/98 machines will work, and some
 SWM> will not. Unfortunately, I have neither the time or patience to
 SWM> make XGS/32 work for all Win95/98 machines. As far as I am
 SWM> concerned, you gain nothing when using Win95/98, so just use
 SWM> NT4. It is much more stable (regardless of what the un*x bigots
 SWM> tell you) :)

I wish I had NT.  NOT! :}

I guess I will have to wait until the source code for the X version
resurfaces again.

cfs
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