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From: Shawn Hargreaves <SHargreaves AT acclaimstudios DOT co DOT uk>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Allegro, DJGPP under WinNT
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 15:15:57 +0100
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JJ Zietsman writes:
> Is there a way to run programs programmed with Allegro and DJGPP.  Last
time
> i've checked it was still something to be sorted out.  The program doesn't
> launch when I try to switch to a graphics mode like 640x480x16m.

Hardware intensive DOS software like Allegro will never run properly
under NT, because NT was designed not to allow that kind of access.
If you want to do such things under it, you need to use a Windows
compiler to produce native Windows executables.


	Shawn Hargreaves.

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