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 > Great! I can put the whole 7.05 dir together (Makefile and all) into a
 > zip and put it up on the website. Sadly, I don't have time to do more
 > with it.  My volunteer hands are pretty full with PythonD.

I'm waiting...

 >>> Sorry I don't have the Allegro-based graphics driver ported because
 >>> it dies on my windows2000 system and we never really determined why
 >>> and I don't have time.
 >>
 >>I do, please indicate what you've tried and what is going wrong with
 >>Allegro.  Is it a Windows 2000 problem?
 >
 > Double great!!! I hope you can help us here. Please keep in mind that
 > any graphics application that hopes to run over WindowsNT (including
 > 2000) must remain at VGA resolution because Micro$soft blocks all hard
 > PCI access. VESA modes are not permitted. Good cracks here would be
 > most welcome.

I'm using windows 95(b), and am interested in the VBE/AF and Mode X 
drivers that are used with Allegro.  So you may be on your own here.
Allegro can be used with DirectDraw, but not with DJGPP.  (uses mingw).
If you are really serious about W2K graphics, you might have to come up 
with something like XVNC support.  (imagine if that were ported to dos)

 >>> ... But I can understand the need for on-screen viewing.
 >>
 >>OK, so it looks like it won't work as a previewer, yet.  Did you strip
 >>out large portions of code?  I may be stuck with gs5.10 here.
 >
 > No code stripped out. Just the default viewer set to LPT1 (kludge).

Obviously you are not using any previewer devices, eg. gdevx.c, 
gdevxini.c, gdevxxf.c, gdevemap.c (this is what DV/X uses).  I am also 
new to GS programming, but it seems to me like something like this is 
what is needed to port from (to interface gs with the graphics library)

When you were trying to get Allegro to work with it, were you using any 
of the glue code from ghostscript?  (ie. had you begun porting the 
graphics driver?)

>>>>Because a PS and PDF viewer would be nice in DOS.
>>
>>...and it would be fun to take it beyond this.  Has anyone ported lout?
> 
> I'm a bit stupid here. lout??? huh???

see the following link: http://snark.ptc.spbu.ru/~uwe/lout/

ciao,
			- Daniel J.

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