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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
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To: Bill HellGateS <eng60667 AT leonis DOT nus DOT sg>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 17:47:23 +0000
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Subject: Re: Any alternative to Direct Memory Access
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Bill HellGateS <eng60667 AT leonis DOT nus DOT sg> wrote:
> Here's a couple of questions:
> (1)Is DJGPP suitable for game programming?
Under DOS? YES, ask it to idSoftware (Quake is a djgpp program).

> (2)Since Direct Memory Access is almost impossible ( correct me if I'm
>    wrong ) ... is there another alternative that can yield the same
>    performance as DMA?
I don't understand you DMA is possible under djgpp!

> (3)Is Allegro a good graphics library ... i mean does it render graphics
>    at high speed ( comparable to that of DMA )?
DMA with graphics? you are messing terms. DMA is made by the motherboard. You 
mean access to the video memory directly. That's possible under djgpp and 
Allegro makes that of course.

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