From: "Damian Yerrick" <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Mouse with rhide under NT ?
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 12:16:12 -0500
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To: djgpp AT Delorie DOT com
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I wrote:

> > Seriously, NT is, has always been, and always will be a piece
> > of crap for running DOS applications. For starters, they can't
> > get anything above blocky 320x200 because NT doesn't have
> > DirectAccess<tm> to the VGA.

Peter Johnsson <peter DOT johnsson AT mbox312 DOT swipnet DOT se> wrote:
> Well, I won't defend NT or get into a discussion about direct
>access or not to hardware, Speed is good about direct access
> (via assembler) but movability ?

Provided your library (e.g. Allegro) is available and optimized
for each platform, portability should not be a problem. Allegro
works (at least partially) on direct SVGA, DirectX, X Windows,
fbcon, etc. That's what made it so easy to turn DOSArena into
WinArena.


Damian Yerrick
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Now that's a long word for news. :-)