Wallpapers for MSDOS?

[Anonymoose]

Per the subject, is there a utility of some sort to show a wallpaper or background in msdos? Something like TEAM on the PC-98?

 

[krebizfan]

I don't know how TEAM works on PC-98 so I can't point to an equivalent. There are a number of program launchers that could include a background image and many slideshow programs to rotate through images. MSDOS applications generally take control of the screen when running which means any background image would have to be shown by that specific application.

 

[Svenska]

As far as I understand, the PC-98 architecture uses two video chips - one for text, one for graphics - and combines the output of both. This easily allows overlaying a static image with an independently running application in text mode.

On regular PCs, there is only a single screen and MS-DOS applications take ownership of the video hardware. Application-independent wallpapers aren't easily possible. Of course, Windows abstracts the video hardware and can do it - but MS-DOS does not.

 

[Anonymoose]

Huh, I never knew! Thanks for the answer