From:	mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Allegro in a Win95 DOS box
Date:	Sat, 23 Nov 1996 03:24:52 GMT
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On 21 Nov 1996 22:59:59 -0600, fedeedw AT charlie DOT cns DOT iit DOT edu (Edward
Federmeyer) wrote:

>I'm writing games with the allegro 2.1 toolkit library and DJGPP v2.01.
>
>When my program runs the allegro function "install_timer()", Windows95
>pops up a window that says "This program may not run well under Windows.
>Do you want to create a shortcut to run this program in DOS mode?"
>
>Of course, I click on "NO", and the game runs just fine.
>
>BUT, is there a way to keep Win95 from displaying this message?  I would
>rather not distribute a game that makes the user do this, since many
>people would "panic" when they see a message like that.

Hmm... I'm not sure this is a good idea. If you suppress this warning,
you'll get millions of complaints saying: 'X is really slow; what do I
do?'. It's probably better to tell the users how to stop this message
appearing, or at least warn them in the readme that it will work
better outside Win95.

How to stop the message appearing: Right-click on the .exe icon,
choose properties, go to the Program tab, and click Advanced...
Deselect 'Suggest MS-DOS mode as necessary'. Then click OK and OK
again. Win95 will never interrupt for that program again.

George Foot

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