From: rushfan357 AT aol DOT com (RushFan357)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: VGA Debugging in RHIDE (more info)
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Date: 27 May 1998 01:14:43 GMT
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>>I'm hoping that someone could take a few minutes to help me out.

>>I finally got the Doom Sources to compile in RHIDE 1.4 (using Allegro of
course).

>>My problem is that when stepping into the code in RHIDE, I crash. The
debugger gose through all the "startup" code, but when it's time to print text
to
stdout, it bombs.

>>I don't believe that it's my port of the sources because the .exe runs fine
with a regular make(no modifications at all). 
>>I'm guessing that either I missed something in the documentation, or RHIDE
doesn't support VGA (Non-Text modes).

>>Could someone please lat me know if RHIDE does do VGA debugging & if so could
ya' give me a "hint"? If not, could you point me to a GNUish debugger that
does?

I'd like to give a little more info if I could.
I'm running RHIDE 1.4 on a 200MMX(Intel) w 32 megs of RAM. My OS is Win 95
OSR2. My video card is a Matrox Millenium w 4megs RAM.

I know that I've got the horsepower (but maybe not the hardware eh?) to run the
debugger, but after seeing the response about the possibility of an unsupported
video mode, I did some tweaking in my enviornment.
I usually run 24 bit color in 1024 X 768, so I scaled down to 800 X 600 and
then 640 X 480 in 256 color mode. RHIDE bombed both times. I then took it out
of 95' and ran it in DOS mode. It bombed again.

I am using Allegro's mouse stuff, but I don't believe that's the problem (yet
:) because I'm not getting that far in the code. 

When RHIDE bombs, it looks like it' trying to draw Doom's screen in the upper
2/3rds of the window, then it just shuts down. No GPF or anything under 95. In
DOS mode it just blanks the screen, locks up & I'm forced to cold boot.

I'm at a loss. I thought that Matrox would have modes that worked OK... OH
well. 
Does anyone have any ideas, cuz I would love to get the debugger working.

Anyway, thank you all for your time. I truly appreciate it. If by some chance I
figure it out on my own I WILL post it here.

Peace,
Joe Bonansinga
Staten Island, NY

joeBonans AT aol DOT com
rushFan357 AT aol DOT com