From: frenchc AT cadvision DOT com (Calvin French)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: AllegroX project?
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 07:54:10 GMT
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"Ryan Crumley" <iii AT io DOT com> wrote:

>> O.K., this isn't really a stupid idea, but i would say it's impossible at
>> the moment. The most important thing why it wouldn't work right now is
>> because DJGPP is a DOS compiler and it doesn't create Windows Code. We
>can
>> talk about it again, when Cygnus has made their Windows port of DJGPP.

>It is not impossible to call a .dll function or .vxd from dos. I'm sure it
>has been done somewhere before. The only problem is finding the time to
>code something like that. 

I assume that .vxd is the DirectX driver file format? Are there specs
avail anywhere? Also I need a standard SVGA-compatable DirectX driver
(I have paradise VGA).

If I can amass this information, I will definitely give it a shot.

- Calvin -