CompuServe Messages

I just realized that a good way to get my darn 486/66 to multitask while doing 3DS related stuff would be to use a batch file with SoftVTR to do the recording instead of doing this from 3DS. I figured I could run this task in the background under windows. The problem is that when I use gettga.exe to display an image in the framebuffer (why Truevision calls the display program "gettga" and the grab program "puttga" is beyond me!), it shows up with all these horizontal lines on it if windows is running. This works fine under dos without windows. It looks like ever other group of four or so scan lines is being skipped. Does anyone know what is going on? It seems there is a conspiracy to keep me from doing more than one thing at a time on the computer while doing 3DS-related stuff. I can hardly wait for the dpmi-compliant 3DSr3. Of course, I may still have this Targa+ problem if nobody knows what to do about it. Then again, I will switch to OS/2 2.1 by then so the problem may go away. In the meantime, I'm thankful I have my modem hooked up to this old 386sx. Bailey