From: Nate Eldredge Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: screenshots for dos (newbie) Date: 23 Oct 2000 12:06:39 -0700 Organization: InterWorld Communications Lines: 22 Sender: nate AT mercury DOT st DOT hmc DOT edu Message-ID: <83vguj1io0.fsf@mercury.st.hmc.edu> References: <39f45c5f$1 AT news DOT telinco DOT net> NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.st.hmc.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: nntp1.interworld.net 972328000 67705 134.173.57.219 (23 Oct 2000 19:06:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet AT news DOT interworld DOT net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 19:06:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.5 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com "John Matchett" writes: > I'm sorting out a 486 for a 6 year old, (to keep her from messing up the > Pentium!) > and I'm using DeskMagic as a menu system for dos 6.0. I would like to put > pics of her and family etc. for her to click on, so the .exe comes up full > screen. maybe a slideshow when I'm more experienced. Will I have any probs > doing this with Allegro? No. > As dos is 16 bit, do I have to switch something in > Allegro or Djgpp so it works in dos? No. Allegro and DJGPP were originally designed for DOS. You just need to have CWSDPMI (which provides 32-bit services) installed, which all the installation instructions tell you to do. -- Nate Eldredge neldredge AT hmc DOT edu