Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 09:29:51 CST
From: bobp AT hal DOT com (Bob Pendleton)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Cc: bobp AT hal DOT com
Subject: DJGPP is absolutely freaking fantastic! 


I've been workign with djgpp for a few months now and I think it is
absolutely wonderful. It's let me move unix software to my pc and do
some really interesting things.

But, (why does there have to be a but?) one of the reasons I put up
with msdos is because I can do horrible things like take over
interrupts. Taking over interrupts makes it possible to do things like
crank up the clock tick rate and get precise timing of events (very
nice for music) or use the vertical retrace interrupt to do page
flipping (this makes triple buffering worthwhile, which can save major
rendering time).

As far as I can tell, I can do all this stuff with djgpp if I put it
all in a bunch of tsrs that I start before I start my djgpp program.
This works, but I don't feel that it is suitable for something you
might want to distribute to other people.

So, can people point me at public, or commercial, sources of DOS
extenders that will let me capture interrupts?

				Bob P.

P.S.

DJ, thanks for djgpp.