From: "Damian Yerrick" <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
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Subject: Re: What is a good DJGPP editor?
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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 06:01:01 GMT
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Kieran Farrell <kezman AT NOSPAMbigfoot DOT com> wrote in message
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>
> >> 2. is it worth making the switch from borland to djgpp?
> >
> >You've come to the wrong place for an unbiased opinion :)  But IMHO,
> >yes, absolutely.
>
> I'll be unbiased. I prefer borlands, it makes
> faster and smaller exe's.

For hello world, and that's about it.

> However you miss out on goodies like allegro.

"Goodies"? Allegro is the most portable graphics, sound,
and input library I've seen. It supports DJGPP, Watcom C++
(ecch), RSXNTDJ, MSVC (double ecch), and gcc for Linux
as of 3.926. BeOS is coming soon.
http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/

> I wouldn't pay for borlands though, However if you
> have a backup Id stick with it.
> Just don't ge MSVC. Talk about bloat ware.

So you're saying RSXNTDJ or MinGW32 would be a better
bet for porting DOSArena to WinArena?


Damian Yerrick
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