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From:	Andrew Cottrell <andnews AT ihug DOT com DOT oz DOT au>
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Subject:	Re: WinXP and DJGPP....
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>sorry this ended up long.
>
>XP sucks, imho.  I gave it a serious try for about 1 month. 3 games -- 1 dos

Gave up with the crap after the first sentence.

>> Well, I'm going to finally move away from my Win95, Pentium
>> 233 Mhz Computer. I'm getting a WinXP-based system. I've
>> read a lot of different things that say that DJGPP-compiled
>> programs won't run on computers that run Windows XP. Why
>> is this? Is there any way to run them without having to
>> install another OS? An emulator or something? I've even read
>> that DOOM runs very poorly.
>>
>> What about DJGPP development on WinXP? Is there a chance that
>> a new DJGPP version (that supports WinXP) will be released?
>> If not, does this mean that DJGPP will be useless in a
>> few years?
>>
>> *I apologize if my questions seem stupid. I'm not too
>> knowledgable about these things.*
diritolx...

I didn't see the original post and the questions are sensible as DJGPP
has only officially supported WIn 2K and XP for a few months now.
There has been allot of work done with regards to getting DJGPP
working under Win 2K and XP. The problems have been due to bugs in
MS's DOS API functions which have meant that the DJGPP developers have
had to put in work arrounds for these bugs.  I have not answered each
of the questions, but his should provide answers for you, except doom
which I haven't played in so loooong.

I have been using DJGPP on Win 2K and XP for over 6 months now (please
note that this is because I was helping out building/finding/fixing
the bugs). The latest DJGPP available from Simtel and mirrors from
this year will work under Win 2K. If you want to get info on what was
done and where the latest version is up to with regards to Win 2K and
XP then start at the following URL:
http://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/win2k/main.htm

Please read the info and links carefully and if you want to learn then
go for it.

For the list of outstanding issues follow the issues link. 

Andrew

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