Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 06:51:52 +0500
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Subject: Re: DJGGP to Linux / MSVC
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"David Green" <Dcgreen AT btinternet DOT com> proclaimed:

> i'm currently developing using djggp (& allegro) in a dos box under 98, but
> it seems that i'm going to have to switch development environments to either
> Linux or MSVC. I'm curious as to how difficult its going to be to convert
> code to either of these. anybody any experience of this and can offer
> advice??

I don't know much about MSVC. And porting to Linux is going to be madness if
you've used lots of interrupt handlers and direct access to hardware, etc.
In all other cases, IMHO, it is quite easy to convert to a Linux port.