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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Charles Krug <charles AT pentek DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 17:18:00 +0000
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Subject: Re: Will Allegro programs run under RHIDE/Win95
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Charles Krug <charles AT pentek DOT com> wrote:

> I've been working through the Vivace.txt file--I spent yesterday working
> on porting my scientific graphics plotter to Allegro.  It works okay,
> but I have the following questions:
> 
> 1.  How gracefully will Rhide handle the change from text to graphics
> mode when I run from within the IDE.  I had some strange results, so I
> started running from the command line.
The result depends on the hardware/software that you have installed. In some 
cases all is ok in others no.

Tip 1: Use a monochrome monitor/card to debug (Hercules).
Tip 2: Try to avoid the Allegro's mouse. If you really need to debug never turn 
on the mouse because it can hang RHIDE. (no idea why).
 
> 2.  I'm running under Win95.  Will Allegro programs run in a dos
> window?  I'm not overly concerned w/ performance on this project (the
> biggest time sink is calculating the pixels)  I find the need to <alt>
> <enter> every time I run annoying.

Normally you won't have problems, at least not if you have the correct W95 
drivers, in general the ones provided by M$ are old and buggy.
Ever run in full screen, some drivers goes crazy if you try to put a SVGA mode 
in a Window.

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