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From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Windows GUI Programming with DJGPP
Date: 31 May 2005 10:40:49 GMT
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PaulCsouls <paulcsouls AT worldnet DOT att DOT net> wrote:
> On 30 May 2005 17:08:42 GMT, Hans-Bernhard Broeker
> <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote:

> >Not really --- you need some access to the graphics hardware, and at
> >least under modern, NT-based versions of Windows, the OS won't let
> >your program put its dirty fingers on that other than through an
> >intermediary layer.  That's exactly the Win32 API.

> I though Allegro would work. 

Not in any way different from complete do-it-yourself operation ---
which means only via the API, for a Windows application, and only
through the (usually very buggy) VESA BIOS emulation, in a DOS
program.  That's why DJGPP/Allegro programs tend to fail so
spectactularly on XP.

> I haven't tried but I thought it could work with the mouse.

Working with the mouse is a side issue.  The problem is with graphics
output, not with mouse input.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.