From: varobert AT colba DOT net
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Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 22:23:25 -0400
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Grabber reboot w/o warning! was [Re: Allegro Grabber
  question]
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Are you using VESA 2 Linear ? I have this problem as well. On my Matrox
Mystique (4MB SGRAM PCI, without the VBE/AF driver, in both DOS and
DOS-in-Windows), all alegro programs using VESA 2.0 (including the grabber)
reset my computer on exit. It doesn't happen with VESA 1.x, VBE/AF, ModeX
nor VGA. (didn't try VESA 2.0 banked though).


At 07:47 PM 8/2/99 GMT, you wrote:
>Has anyone had the Allegro Grabber tool in 16-bit color or truecolor mode
>reboot your computer without warning? It reboots right after I exit it. I
>have version 3.11 installed. I think Example Program 39 does this also. The
>video card installed is a SiS 6326AGP, if that might help. Please help, I'm
>going to use 16-bit graphics in a tile-based platform game (a la Super Mario
>Bros) I am very slowly developing. Also if anyone has some pointers on
>pixel-perfect collision testing between a tile and a sprite (which height
>and width are not a multiple of the tile size) I would appreciate the help.
>
>Thank you!
>Tim
>
>
>

- GodOfWar
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that Microsoft invented time travel ?