Message-Id: <199612200611.HAA15804@nic.calypso.net>
From: "Henrik Abelsson" <henrik AT mailbox DOT calypso DOT net>
To: "Jan Hubicka" <hubicka AT ta DOT jcu DOT cz>,
        "Shawn Hargreaves" <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Cc: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: SV: djgpp + allegro + win NT?
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 07:15:43 +0100
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> Från: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
> Till: Jan Hubicka <hubicka AT ta DOT jcu DOT cz>
> Kopia: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
> Ämne: Re: djgpp + allegro + win NT?
> Datum: den 19 december 1996 20:58
> 
> Jan Hubicka <hubicka AT ta DOT jcu DOT cz> writes:
> >As I remember allegro already have some detection routine since its demo
> >displays that you are using windows. I am not sure if this works for win
nt..
> >but should..
> 
> Allegro uses the int 0x2F function with ax=0x1600, which is documented
> in Ralph Brown's interrupt list as the windows detection function, and
> works under win 3.1 and 95. I haven't been able to test it under NT - if
> anyone could try it out and let me know what values it returns (there
> are two, the main windows version number and the sub-version), it would
> be much appreciated...
> 
From Windows NT 4.0 build 1381 they return 
Main version: 0 
Sub-version: 0

Jan, 
The graphics routines of allegro seem to work under NT, but the timer
routines don't 
does your program use them? 
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