David,
Been doing some reasearch, and asking questions to anyone who will listen, and the following is very interesting. http://www.vmware.com/products/server. I think some of this stuff might be the answer to the problems with fractint in windows. The virtual machines( I am told) fully supports DOS under windows and reacts with the hardware installed, which should solve the video resolution problems. Hope this helps
I downloaded an evaluation copy of vmware about a week ago. It's a very nice looking package. If I were starting from scratch, I would have no trouble justifying the expense. However, I am now using a dual boot system that vmware doesn't play with. It probably has to do with the Linux partitions (and hence the grub (boot loader) information) using the reiser file system. This is a problem with trying to make vmware use a physical partition instead of a virtual partition. The virtual machine is simulating a video adapter, not directly allowing you to use the one in your machine. So, this could potentially cause problems also. Jonathan