From: locke AT mcs DOT net (Peter Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: djgpp with windows nt
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 15:32:24 GMT
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Hmm, I have written a DJGPP program that accesses I/O ports with no
problems under NT (it runs in Mode X, so it uses them quite
extensively).  Perhaps it's because I run it as Administrator (should
try running it as a "normal" user, I guess).  This is under NT
Workstation 4.0 SP4.

Peter Johnson
locke AT mcs DOT net

On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 10:51:59 +0200 (IST), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>
>On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, benjch wrote:
>
>> i am trying to made a projet for my school with allegro's directory
>> but my teacher has windows nt. I made some test, and the graphique
>> mode doesn't seen to work.
>
>Tough luck.  NT doesn't allow programs to access I/O ports, so Allegro
>cannot support any graphics modes except the standard VGA ones.  NT
>also doesn't allow the nearptr stuff, so if Allegro uses that, the
>corresponding features won't work either.