From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: [ALLEGRO] modex & test.exe bug ???
Date: 18 Feb 1997 05:58:53 GMT
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Shawn Hargreaves (Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk) writes:
>>in test.exe from allegro when i select a modex video mode and
>>run the keyboard test it's exist to dos with page fault error ....
>>and this only in modex modes, in vga 13h 320x200 or svga
>>modes it runs correctly ... same happend to you guyz ???
>>
>>i looked in the source and i think the problem is 
>>  blit (screen,screen, .... ) 
> 
> I was just about to say "no, it works fine for me", but then it occured
> to me to try under cwsdpmi as well as win95, and sure enough, Bang!
> This is most certainly a bug: thanks for pointing it out...
> 
> btw. are you using the 2.2 beta, or did this happen with earlier
> releases as well? When posting bug reports, it helps if you say exactly
> which version you are using.

I'm using 2.1 and I had no problem running the demo program, which has a
blit(screen,screen...) in it.

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