From:	Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: djgpp + allegro + win NT?
Date:	Tue, 17 Dec 1996 19:17:44 +0000
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Jan Hubicka writes:
>I receiving somme messages that my XaoS 
>(http://www.paru.cas.cz/~hubicka/XaoS) soes not work under winNT
>Is this true? Is this djgpp/allegro problem or XaoS problem?
>Some sollutions?

I don't have access to NT, so I may be completely mistaken here, but I'd
be very surprised if it did work. NT doesn't like DOS apps messing
directly with the hardware - it is a protected environment, and quite
rightly figures that letting programs do their own hardware access is a
large security hole. Of course Allegro is entirely based around direct
hardware access, so the two don't mix very well :-) I'd imagine that NT
will give DOS apps access to hardware that can be virtualised, ie. that
NT knows about in sufficient detail to emulate it for the DOS program,
while keeping tight control of what is going on. I have no idea how good
NT is at virtualising hardware, but I suspect not good enough. I very
much doubt that any DOS games will run properly under it...

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