On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, arachne-digest wrote: > Michael I have a suggestion for when this can be done (perhaps). As you may > remember between January and May next year I'm supposed to work on a > project of my own (or in a group of two as max AFAIK), either with > something I come up with myself or at a company, for my studies half-time > (20 hours/week) for 20 weeks. > Now the suggestion is the following: I'll make a DJGPP+Allegro port of > core.exe (the main Arachne executable). This would be excellent! > There are two problems, the first being if this is enough work for the > university to accept (we can always throw something else in in that case), I suggest you writing some djgpglue.c module, based on my linglue.c module. Additionaly, you will have to learn how to use 32bit version of WATTCP... > the other is that I might find something more interesting to do (eg. doing > something at a company that are able and might be interested in hiring me - > this is my last year in university after all). Well, there can be of course more interesting project from more solvent companies, thats natural ;-) > I suggest we take this off-list now... Why not. > Allegro 4 is supposed to be the same for DOS and Windows (no need to use > WinAllegro). And before that is out I think it's premature to work on it. > You'll not only get a 32-bit version but also most of a Windows version if > you wait. Hmm....
