Date:	Sun, 25 Jun 2000 18:17:06 +0600 (LKT)
From:	Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx>
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Subject:	Re: Possible compiled exe and Win2K bug.
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On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, The awesome and feared Robin Johnson commented thusly,

> My Computer Science project that I wrote, doesn't seem to work
> under Win2K. And I can't figure out the reason.
> It doesn't  spawn other programs, or use LFN, or use any special
> DPMI functions. It does use Allegro for FLI playing, MIDI music,
> and lotsa graphics though. It also uses the Allegro Addon for
> loading PNG images.

Well win2k (alias windows NT 5.0) unfortunately severely limits hardware
acesss by dos programs(so that tit would be more stable ;))...so most
probably DOS programs that need to acesss a lot of hardware like allegro
won't work...

I haven't tried it myself, but maybe if you use the DirectX version of
Allegro your program might work under windoze 2000...

BTW A good solution would involve ditching that monstrosity win2k and
installing the much faster and less memory intensive win98 if
possible.....

 Grendel

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