From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT father DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: NO DPMI MEMORY (II)
Date: 18 Sep 2000 17:19:36 GMT
Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden
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Ivan Ferrara <ifalpsfun AT inwind DOT it> wrote:
: Here's a code compiled and linked with DJGPP. I'm working under WINDOWS
: 98 and, after a double click on the EXE file, I get this error message
: :  "LOAD ERROR: NO DPMI MEMORY"
: This program should set video mode in 320X200 (13h graphic mode),then
: show a PCX image file.
: What's the problem ?

: Thanks a lot,

: Ivan

: /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

: #include <stdio.h>
: #include <conio.h>
: #include <stdlib.h>
: #include <dos.h>
: #include <math.h>
: #include <dpmi.h>

: #define PALETTE_MASK 0x3c6
: #define PALETTE_REGISTER_WR 0x3c8
: #define PALETTE_REGISTER_RD 0x3c7
: #define SCREEN_WIDTH 320
: #define SCREEN_HEIGHT 200
: #define PALETTE_DATA 0X3C9

: FILE *dati;
: unsigned char far *video_buffer = (char far *)0xA0000000L; // vram byte
: ptr

Problem 1: 0xA0000000L won't work in DJGPP.

Problem 2: How did you make that compile. C doesn't have a "far"
keyword and it's certainly not in the DJGPP headers.


Right,

						MartinS