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From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: How to make a DJGPP program GO!
Date: 14 Apr 1996 08:15:14 GMT
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Michael Edwin Hommel (mhommel AT trumpet DOT aix DOT calpoly DOT edu) writes:
>   Okay, I've got my super-cool DJGPP game, all ready to go.  Works great 
> on my computer.  However, I just sent a copy to a friend of mine, and he 
> cannot get it to work: A> running from DOS by itself, B> running from DOS 
> after running CWSDPMI, C> running from windows95.
>   It crashes immediately, or gives him an error he describes as "can't 
> get into protected mode".
>   These are the only 2 places it has been tried, so basically, how do you 
> get this stuff to work on a win95 computer?  And/or just in general, in 
> case there is something I'm overlooking (it runs perfectly on mine).

This may sound stupid, but: He isn't running it on a 286 is he???


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