Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/03/11/15:37:19
Hmm, I have written a DJGPP program that accesses I/O ports with no
problems under NT (it runs in Mode X, so it uses them quite
extensively). Perhaps it's because I run it as Administrator (should
try running it as a "normal" user, I guess). This is under NT
Workstation 4.0 SP4.
Peter Johnson
locke AT mcs DOT net
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 10:51:59 +0200 (IST), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>
>On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, benjch wrote:
>
>> i am trying to made a projet for my school with allegro's directory
>> but my teacher has windows nt. I made some test, and the graphique
>> mode doesn't seen to work.
>
>Tough luck. NT doesn't allow programs to access I/O ports, so Allegro
>cannot support any graphics modes except the standard VGA ones. NT
>also doesn't allow the nearptr stuff, so if Allegro uses that, the
>corresponding features won't work either.
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