From: "Zimba" <zimba AT zamba DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Allegro WIP3934 & W2K problems
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:02:43 +0100
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You may be right about DX8 having problems. When I run the DirectDraw
examples with DebugView, it traps this message on exit:

Direct3D8: (ERROR) :Release Exclusive Mutex Failed. App should not release
Exclusive Mode on different thread than it was taken.

BTW, I ported an old DOS app that I wrote using Allegro to W2K but it
behaves funny: it works (veeeeeeeeery slowly though) but the keyboard thread
exits after some time (about 20s, without touching any keys), making my
program end.

BTW2, making Allegro the official way resulted in several NT exceptions, but
simply ignoring them and restarting the build where it stopped got the job
done. I am not using these DLLs though, I use the precompiled ones.

Clemens