Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 18:50:01 -0700 (PDT)
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To: mapson AT mapson DOT com (mapson), djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: Allegro mouse trouble in WinNT?
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At 01:29  10/5/1997 GMT, mapson wrote:
>I little program I wrote seems fine in win95, DOS, and even Win3.x...
>but I now have seen firsthand that it doesn't work in WinNT...
>everything is fine, until I try to move a mouse.
>
>I've also noticed that some other things in WinNT seem different- my
>calculated framerates are all crazy, make no sense (negative and so
>forth)... which leads me to think there is some different timer
>protocol or something along those lines in NT. I haven't tracked that
>one down, justnoticed it this afternoon. 
Seems quite possible. Windows NT objects to probably quite a lot of the
stuff Allegro does. For instance, I think the timer gets all wonky there. NT
quite rightly disallows most low-level hardware access. I think that the
Allegro for Windows works under Windows NT, so try it if you are desperate.
I could be wrong, though.

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net