From: "Peter Johnsson" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: <7tuf9c$7u3$1 AT solomon DOT cs DOT rose-hulman DOT edu> <7tvqgf$cd6$1 AT solomon DOT cs DOT rose-hulman DOT edu> Subject: SV: Mouse with rhide under NT ? Lines: 35 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.151.120.25 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse AT swip DOT net X-Trace: nntpserver.swip.net 939764341 212.151.120.25 (Tue, 12 Oct 1999 23:39:01 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 23:39:01 MET DST Organization: A Customer of Tele2 X-Sender: s-659290 AT d212-151-120-25 DOT swipnet DOT se Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 23:42:59 +0200 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com RHIDE -M works wonderful !! Damian Yerrick skrev i diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet:7tvqgf$cd6$1 AT solomon DOT cs DOT rose-hulman DOT edu... > 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 to the VGA. > > Peter Johnsson 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 > http://come.to/yerrick > > > Damian Yerrick skrev i > > diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet:7tuf9c$7u3$1 AT solomon DOT cs DOT rose-hulman DOT edu... > > Now that's a long word for news. :-) > >