Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/11/24/08:55:49
At 13:17 24.11.98 +0200, you wrote:
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>On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Anton Helm wrote:
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>> 2) Anyone out there who has access to the sources of <display> ?
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>`display' should be on SimTel.NET; aren't the sources there as well? I
>looked at that program a long time ago, and I'm not sure anymore whether
>it had free sources.
Binaries, fonts (from GRX) video drivers but no sources.
>> 3) Someone who has compiled <display> for DJGPP v2.x ?
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>I think you can't, not without a lot of work. `display' uses some very
>sneaky tricks to do its magic, and those tricks require direct access to
>video hardware via a constant address. I think not even nearptr can
>handle that.
I didn't even think of using it for displaying. But it has nice
scriptable batch features.
So I actually would need a display.exe without display capabilities :-)
Throw away all the hardware magic and keep to the algorithms.
>> 4) Any hints, how to make the current setup work better ?
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>Is dumping NT an option? ;-)
... including hardware and user :-)
Problem is that it isn't my own PC and there is no more DOS left on that
system (NTFS only).
I think <display> is one of the best graphic programs I ever had.
About 3 years ago we had to read some images (maps) and <display> was the
only program that understood the file format. As far as I know there
is still no other program around that can read it and my friends still
run <display> to convert these files into something more common.
Tony
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