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I have deluxe paint 2 on my VBox which is running DOS 6.22
At the start it asks you to select your graphics card.
If you pick any of the monochrome, CGA, EGA, MCGA, or VGA options, it works fine. If I pick any of the E-VGA modes(640x400 or better at 256 colors) though, while the whole window (menu bar, palette, etc) shows correctly, the actual drawing area only takes up half or less of what it should.
Then comes the problem for graphics card specific options. While it works on generic ones like (CGA, EGA, and VGA) VBox doesn't work with brand specific ones even though they are listed in DP2's graphics card selection (like Hercules, Amstrad, and Tandy). Picking Amstrad makes the whole window area glitchy (though it is slightly usable), and picking Tandy and Hercules simply trigger an error that it can't find the graphics card in question. VBox should automatically switch emulation mode to the correct graphics card when a program sends a signal requesting a specific graphics card.

Is there a way to do this myself somewhere in the VBox settings, or will I have to wait for Oracle to make a new version of VBox for this bug to be fixed?

I would not hold my breath waiting for bug fixes for DOS problems (or Win95/98).

For what the hell do you need DOS Paint Programs?

There are millions of programs like this for modern windows versions.

Videogamer555 wrote:VBox should automatically switch emulation mode to the correct graphics card when a program sends a signal requesting a specific graphics card.

VirtualBox should include an emulation for every graphics card that ever existed, even the obscure proprietary ones??? Well now (a) that belongs in "Suggestions", (b) VBox is an open source project so feel free to get busy, researching all that stuff and writing all that code! The rest of us doesn't see the point, so we'll just watch. Unless of course you were offering to pay market rates to develop each driver?

Congratulations: you made what is quite possibly the most ludicrous and ignorant suggestion I've ever seen on this site.

what the hell do you need DOS Paint Programs

you made what is quite possibly the most ludicrous and ignorant suggestion I've ever seen on this site

Guys, lay off the meanness! Don't you remember what it was like when you first started using something new and didn't know your way around? For heaven's sake, the OP has made only one post! He doesn't know how to proceed and you're pouncing all over him! If you can't respond to to new posters civilly, you should go take a month-long break or just stop trying to help. Smarting off at persons who don't know the ropes does not make for a helpful forum. BillG's comment was the only reasonable one.

That said, Videogamer555, I doubt Virtualbox will be able to help you run this program very well, the prog's too old. Newer paint programs might be more useful, and free (search for Gimp). Also, take a look at DOSbox.

Actually, no I don't remember when I was as green as that, but I'm sure that if I had the chutzpah to recommend a really bad course of action to my seniors without having the slightest knowledge of the subject, then I have no doubt the reaction would have been rude. Sorry, but politeness in the face of gross errors is not a kindness.

Rudeness is never a good idea, for any reason. Rudeness denigrates the rude person, and doesn't help the person who the rudeness is directed at. It causes disrespect for the rude person, and even worse, disrespect for the product/service that the person represents. Rudeness will only hurt Virtualbox. Who knows but that the first-time poster with the unusual question today might not be the future developer who enables drag-n-drop, USB boot, or any of the other want-so-badly's that Virtualbox can't do yet? Those problems/wishes may never get fixed or developed, because the person with the right combination of ideas got driven away by sarcastic, crude comments from representatives/moderators/volunteers on this forum.

A calm, polite answer, even when firmness is needed, will always help, and will generate respect for not only the responder, but this forum and Virtualbox as well, and encourage new ideas, new developers, and new wishes granted.

You are welcome to your opinion, but I'm not really interested in participating in a philosophical discussion.

Never mind. I withdraw.

I have better things to do, like teaching my four children to fight the current and be polite.