From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: DJGGP to Linux / MSVC Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: References: <8bj3lp$4gq$1 AT uranium DOT btinternet DOT com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 23 X-Trace: /Kp2lrAoAvdBbinMdsFk90EhxBGblK+l0Nbr1RdiSmxY/9yI/akAETUhE+8FlFK0G+TcV4BzWAvU!SGKq5a+ox1pEvdcA5isuIMWWlEl5CYRZhPSHWA52Nm1f7LqWxMASLQzvoWNlZYPU8iXBrIqR5heV!lxYLVlE= X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 00:21:47 GMT Distribution: world Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 00:22:35 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Sat, 25 Mar 2000 19:24:36 -0000, "David Green" wrote: >Hi all, hope someone can offer some advice... > >i'm currently developing using djggp (& allegro) in a dos box under 98, but >it seems that i'm going to have to switch development environments to either >Linux or MSVC. I'm curious as to how difficult its going to be to convert >code to either of these. anybody any experience of this and can offer >advice?? Allegro also runs on MSVC (through DirectX) and Linux (through fbcon). And it's a heck of a lot easier than direct DirectX, requiring changes to only about three functions (mostly removing sound()/nosound() that I put into one of my libraries for debugging purposes). -- Damian Yerrick "I refuse to listen to those who refuse to listen to reason." See the whole sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your signature to prevent the spread of signature viruses. http://www.mcafee.com/