From: swarsmatt AT aol DOT com (SWars Matt)
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Subject: Problems with Allegro?
Date: 17 Dec 1997 22:35:49 GMT
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I recently wrote a fractal generator using the Allegro library. When I run it
on my 486 with a Hercules video card, it runs fine in 320x200, 640x480,
800x600, and 1024x768 resolution. However, I have run it on a Pentium with an
S3 graphics card (also with DirectX installed). I run the program full-screen
in a Windows95 DOS box. The graphics modes look fine, but the text in text mode
portions of the program is mostly squares.
Also, I have given the program to a few friends who say that it crashes their
computer when it tries to use a graphics mode (I don't yet know what kind of
graphcis cards they have).
Since the program runs fine on my 486, I assume that the problem lies in the
Allegro library not supporting certain graphics cards.
Can someone help me with this? I don't know what to do about this problem. I'll
e-mail the program to you if you need me to. Please e-mail me if you can help.
Thanks.