From: zargon AT hotmail DOT vom (Zargon) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: running prog in dos error Organization: Zargon and Zed Take Over The Universe Message-ID: <3941cb5a.72351894@news.globalserve.net> References: X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 Lines: 19 Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 05:02:03 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.176.153.37 X-Complaints-To: news AT primus DOT ca X-Trace: news2.tor.primus.ca 960613143 207.176.153.37 (Sat, 10 Jun 2000 00:59:03 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 00:59:03 EDT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Tue, 6 Jun 2000 20:42:30 +0200, "cel" ate too many hallucinogenic mushrooms and wrote: >When i run allegro setup for the sound card in a win95 box it runs ok but if >i start up in dos mode windows 95 ver 4001111 i get a general protection >fault It could be you have a "winsoundcard" if there is such a thing, which pure DOS can't see. If you ran the setup in Windows and it detected the card and saved the settings someplace, then ran it under DOS, it would load the settings and try to talk to the card, which is no longer accessible, and bomb. (I think this can happen with some plug and pray cards, which don't exist until a plug and pray OS, e.g. Windows, does something to them, and which go back into limbo when you reboot...) -- Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from an Allegro-using C++ program compiled with gcc.