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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:56:17 -0400
From: Ethan Rosenberg <ethros AT earthlink DOT net>
Subject: Re: 1] Problems with compiler 2] Problems with Rhide -- Update  More
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> > Alex -
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Did it.  Regrettably, no improvement.  Slightly more checker board.
> >
> > Any other ideas?
> >
> > FYI - The ATI Radeon VE 7000 has the capacity to use two(2)
> > monitors.  I do not know if that helps.
> >
> > A different video card is not an option.   This is my wife's
> > computer, and she needs the existing video card.
> >
> > Ethan
> >
> > PS I thank everyone for all their input and help.
> > ++++++++++++++
>
>
>Well, if that didn't help, then something else is additionally broken.
>I don't know what. I could dig and figure it out, but I'm not going to
>do it. Sorry.
>
>If you have windows on that computer (which I think you do) and that's
>windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista (not 95/98/Me), you could try to install
>either Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 or VMWare Server (both are freely
>available on the internet), create a virtual machine in there, install
>DOS and DJGPP in there and work in the VM. That might work (unless
>something's broken in those virtualizing products and DJGPP doesn't
>work well in there -- I think I tried once but that wasn't extensive
>use of DJGPP in a VM, so YMMV).
>
>Other options for the same hardware:
>- use a different IDE or just a plain text editor for editing, use
>plain gdb for debugging and compile the code from the command line
>(directly, through a script or makefile). I know it can be painful to
>give up on a handy IDE and instead use something more primitive, but
>it's a possible option. I, for one, rarely use IDEs and debuggers. I
>use a powerful text editor, make files (or equivalent scripts) and
>manage to figure out most of bugs in newly written code w/o the
>debugger. It varies with older code or code written by others.
>- entirely different set of tools, something for windows, unless you
>absolutely must code for DOS or need direct hardware access. Btw, if
>you don't care much about modern C++ and can live in a 16-bit world,
>you can download Borland's Turbo C++ 1.01 and use it. RHIDE was
>designed after Borland's IDEs of their C/C++ and Pascal compilers for
>DOS.
>
>Alex

Alex -

Thank you for all your efforts.

I am not a good enough programmer to be able to write code just using 
a text editor.  I need to write a segment, compile and write the next segment.

I have two(2) hard drives in this computer, one with Windows 2000 and 
mine with DOS 7.1.  Sometimes, to transfer files I run the DOS drive 
as a slave of the Win 2000 drive. Otherwise, they are run 
independently.  I have DOS 7.1 for the FAT32,. so I do not have to 
partition the drive.  The problem I know is with the video card.  If 
I run "edit", and exit the program, the top of the screen remains 
blue.  I am trying to avoid replacing the video card, for the 
aforementioned reason, since additionally, I will have my own 
computer, with a video card which will probably work very well with RHIDE.

Thanks again.

Ethan