Mail Archives: djgpp/2001/09/08/18:30:14
Thanks to my efforts, and line_by_line_coding of a
Borland 5.02 MAKEFILE, the porting of
DEPUI 2.0 by Doug Eleveld,
http://huizen.dds.nl/~deleveld/depui.htm
is now available. I mention this here since it was
due to how impressed I was with the
DJGPP 2.03/Allegro 3.12 built of Depui 2.0 that made me curious
just how well the purely 16-bit version would compare.
Unfortunately, the original Borland 3.1 PRJ file is useless to me.
I had to manually create a MAKEFILE from scratch!
(but hey! thats why we love these sorts of things!)
My Borland 5.02 port uses the Large_Mem_Model, absolutely
requires the Borland BGI package, and also requires that you
modify the EXAMPLE files to reflect the use of the BGI support.
Interesting note here:
Compressing a DJGPP EXE file (using djp) results in only a
1/2 compression,
NOW
using my BC16 library and WWP to compress the examples,
I am getting 60% compression on the EXE's.
Average DJGPP DEPUI 2.0 EXE is 320k
Average BC16 DEPUI 2.0 EXE is 160k
(immediately half the size, BUT remember Allegro is not BGI
and vice-versa, to be sure, there are trade-offs here)
Compressing DGJPP yields ONLY 1/2 compression
Compressing BC16 Apps yields 1/3 (or more) compression.
Anyone wanting the Borland 5.02 DEPUI 2.0 Large_Mem_Model
LIB (and a few converted example sources) can email be directly
RadSurfer AT yahoo DOT com ONLY thanks.
email: radsmail AT juno DOT com
http://members.tripod.com/~RadSurfer/
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