From: "Damian Yerrick" <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
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Subject: Re: DirectX 6.1 w/DJGPP
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 23:45:46 -0500
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Robert S Whitlock <roberts DOT j DOT whitlock AT juno DOT com> wrote in message
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> Hi, does anybody know of a way to program
> DirectX 6.1 with DJGPP?

Use Cygwin, MinGW32, or RSXNTDJ.
They all support the Win32 API.

> I'm aware of Allegro, but that doesn't want to work,
> even when I get the Scitech DD,

Have you tried in 320x200 VGA mode?

> and besides, DirectX is better for what I'm doing.

Allegro 3.925 for Micro$oft Visual C++, RSXNTDJ, and MinGW32
gives you the best of both worlds. It runs inside DirectX.
http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/
I used it to port DOSArena to WinArena.

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