From: "Damian Yerrick" <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
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Subject: Re: allegro djgpp and NT
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 11:27:36 -0500
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
news:Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 991003122822 DOT 16555S-100000 AT is...
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> On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Peter Danielsson wrote:
>
> > I have made a program using allegro. For some reason it does not work on
> > NT. Is it my coding or is gcc and allegro not working under NT?
>
> NT doesn't like direct hardware access of the kind used by Allegro.
> See section 3.3 of the DJGPP FAQ list for more details.

However, if you are using Allegro 3.925, and you compile for
Win32, Allegro will use DirectX instead of true direct access.
This should make things go smoother in NT.
http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/

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