From: Eric Berenson <ekb44 AT cats DOT ucsc DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: CAN I GET ALLEGRO 2 WORK
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 08:23:08 -0800
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 have a Gateway 2000 P120, no mmx, from 1995, with a STB Trio
64V+ graphics card and an Ensoniq Soundscape
Wavetable Sound card, and 16MB RAM, running WIN95. None of the sound
library routines work in Allegro, but that's a problem to fix later. If
I cannot get any graphics I have nothing to do. I switched from
TurboPascal/DOS/ASM to the "real world" of C. I have so many things to
port and look at.
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/* This program crashes unrecoverably in a power-down fashion. */
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include "allegro.h"

int main()
{
   allegro_init();
   install_keyboard();
   if (set_gfx_mode(GFX_AUTODETECT, 800, 600, 0, 0) != 0) {
      allegro_exit();
      printf("Error setting graphics mode\n%s\n\n", allegro_error);
      return 1;
   }
   return 0;
}
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#include "allegro.h"
int main()
{
   int x, y, w=800, h=600;
   allegro_init();
   install_keyboard();
   if (set_gfx_mode(GFX_AUTODETECT, w, h, 0, 0))
   /* the line above produces an unrecoverable-powerdown type crash */
   {
     allegro_exit();
     printf("Modeset failure.\n");
     return 0;
   }
   for (x=0;x<320;x++)
     for (y=0;y<200;y++)
       putpixel(screen,x,y,x&y);
   do{
   } while (! keypressed() );
   allegro_exit();
   return 0;
}
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also ex12, ex23, ex40, any exXX using sound, tests\test, all crash.

compilied Allegro with all default gcc settings.
using FREEBE VBEAF driver version 1.0;

Help. Thanx.