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Subject: Re: Video modes under Windoze XP
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>Is there a painless way to port an Allegro app to DirectX?
>(Note: painless means, among other thigns, no massive rewriting and no 
>paying money for anything. Preferably no downloading anything really huge, 
>either. A DLL, maybe. Lots of new tools or libraries and having to learn 
>them all, ick.)
There is a VC++ version of allegro available at the allegro home page.
Then your program becomes a Windows APP and will not run on plain
MSDOS.