From: "Stefan Viljoen" <rylan AT intekom DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Fine on "tabletop" system crashes on laptop
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 20:12:20 +0300
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----- Original Message -----
From: Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH] <cp1v45 AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
To: Stefan Viljoen <rylan AT intekom DOT com>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: Fine on "tabletop" system crashes on laptop


> Stefan Viljoen wrote:
>
> > I have written a program that uses Allegro in the 640x480x16bit color
mode
> > on a 266mHz
> > PII system with 128 megabytes of RAM. The program transfers well to a
> > laptop, but keeps
> > crashing if I try to run it in a W95 DOSbox on the laptop. If I exit to
pure
.
.
.
>     That sounds like a bad video driver.  Some video card drivers don't
support
> DOS SVGA programs.  There's not much you can do about it other than:

Fanx for the reply! The problem is that the program does work up to a point
on the laptop, but when a certain part is reached (where I build a linked
list that takes a bit of memory, about a megabyte I guess) it goes down with
a stackframe trace crash.

Fanx anyway!

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