Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/02/18/17:34:37
From: | Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Subject: | Re: Allegro /DirectX ??? (oh dear I asked another stupid one :)
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Date: | Tue, 18 Feb 1997 19:28:19 +0000
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To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Calvin French writes:
>suggestion :) but what about giving allegro DirectX support? All I
'twould be nice, but not quite as trivial as you make it seem :-)
You have to be a win32 program in order to use DirectX, not a DOS app,
so Allegro would need to be ported to Windows. This would involve a
major rewrite of all the graphics drivers, sound drivers, and IO
routines. Not to mention the fact that Allegro contains a lot of asm
code and gcc-isms, and at the moment there is no polished Windows
version of gcc (no, I am _not_ interested in trying to make Allgero work
with Visual C :-)
It has occured to me that a Windows port would be a good idea, but it's
not something I'm going to have the time or resources to do in the
forseeable future...
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