From: wmcgugan AT netcomuk DOT co DOT uk (William McGugan)
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Subject: Re: Allegro
Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 13:30:07 GMT
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On Fri, 09 May 1997 21:00:05 -0500, "J. Ellis" <cellis AT voyageur DOT ca>
wrote:

>I just set up Allegro on my system, and now I have a question:  Can I go
>ahead and delete the directory (and files) that I unzipped allegro into? 
>The liballeg.a file was copied into my DJGPP dir, but does the lib
>recquire any files from the allegro dir (you can tell I'm a newbie;-)?
>Also, I'm starting to get sort of confused about this 32-bit stuff.  I
>read that DJGPP produced great 32-bit executables, but it sucks with
>16-bit exe's.  I thought that DJGPP could ONLY produce 32-bit code!! 
>Was I misinformed?  Also, when everyone says that DJGPP's 32-bit exe's
>are great, does that mean just great in 32-bit OS's (unix, winNT, etc.)?
>Or are they also very fast under DOS with CWSDPMI??  The reason I ask is
>this:  I own Turbo C++ v3.0, and unless DJGPP is quite a bit faster
>under DOS, I will opt for TC's ease of use.  I wish that someone could
>just post some benchmarks under various operating systems to comapare
>DJGPP with commercial compilers.  Anyway, that's about it.  Thank-you
>all for your help, and all the help you've given me in the past:-)

I guess you could delete the Allegro directory, but you might want to
keep the utilities (especially grabber.exe), and the examples are very
handy to learn from.

DJGPP only produces 32 bit code and it is a *lot* faster than 16 bit
code. Turbo C++ only compiles code for up to 286 so the performance
difference is considerable. Get RHIDE
(http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~rho/rhide/rhide.html), it's a IDE based on
the Turbo C++ IDE - You will find the transition relatively painless.


William McGugan
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