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Subject: Re: GdM's DOS 3d engine in Ada
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:17:55 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi,

On Mar 16, 1:23=A0pm, Andris Pavenis <andris DOT pave DOT  DOT  DOT  AT iki DOT fi> wrote:
>
> Well, it compiles under Vista with gcc-4.3.3, but I cannot run it neither
> in Vista (no full screen mode) neither in XP (hangs so that I have to
> reboot with power button)

In all fairness, this is not anybody's fault (at least, not ours).
Windows just isn't very compatible with DOS anymore. The best you can
do is just run it under DOSBox 0.72 (but run "S3VBE20 /INSTALL"
first !! dunno why but it needs that).

> Perhaps something else, that does not require 3D graphics would be more
> apropriate for testing. We are NOT testing graphics, but port of Ada
> compiler.

In all fairness, it's not very DOS or DJGPP specific to test only
basic common routines. Not that such would be bad in itself, but a 3D
engine is much more useful, testing BIOS / DOS / DPMI / VESA / SB all
at once, which is what DJGPP is capable of. Not supporting DOS just
because latest Windows blows isn't reasonable at all !