A NOTE TO DESQVIEW, OS/2, AND WINDOWS USERS

Users of multi-tasking environments will most likely encounter
difficulties in coaxing egaint to perform properly; this is due to the
fact that egaint does some "greedy" things with the EGA/VGA display
(like using both of the available two video pages and changing the
palette).

I have personally attempted to run egaint under both OS/2 and
Windows/386:  the results, I am pleased to report, are, for the lack of
a better term, amusing.

Windows/386 will spit out several angry messages, hemming and hawing
about how egaint is an "exclusive" application (among other epithets).
Once finally into egaint (with all other applications idling), I
discovered that Windows/386 had commandeered the EGA/VGA palette,
producing interesting results.

OS/2, on the other hand, runs egaint fine (albeit not in a little
window); I seem to recall it being called a "DOS box" or something along
those lines.  A warning:  do not exit back into OS/2 while egaint is
still running, because OS/2 will commandeer one of the video pages
(without restoring it to its previous state), producing an almost
psychedelic effect upon return to egaint (if your machine is fast
enough).

As for DESQview, for those running DESQview 2.2 or higher, it has been
reported to me that the following settings provide optimal results:
"virtualization" off, "writes directly to screen" on, "runs only in
foreground" on, "displays graphics information" on, and "uses its own
colors" on.

Later versions of egaint will probably malfunction in exactly the same
way, as I will stubbornly refuse to support multi-tasking environments
which I do not possess.