On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Ian Smith wrote:
> Hiho
Hiyas!
>
> To all those out there who are interested in a DOS port, I
> was wondering how it should be gone about. I know that we
> would have to use DJGPP for the best performance... however
> the problem is getting glib for DOS. Dmitry was lucky in that
> someone had created a port for Win32, however I know of no
> such luck for ourselves.
Well, I also feel we should use DJGPP. DJGPP is close to 100% compitable with
the GNU C libraries.
>
> I was wondering if ALLEGRO could be used instead of glib. I'm
> not sure what it would need to do (ALLEGRO that is), and I'm
> not too sure how we should implement the connection between
> the two. I'm pretty sure that glib and ALLEGRO would not
> follow the same function interface, and I'm really sure that
> there are huge differences between the two.
Well, I figure it'd be best to either write our own graphics library (which is
relatively easy to do, since 320x200x16 is not hard to do), or use Allegro.
Allegro has around all library functions we need...
> > Oh, and if anyone can
tell me, have there been any major > (that is stable) updates to either of these
fantastic > projects in the last four months?
Well... nope, not too much IIRC. AFAIK, Allegro 3.12 is the last one now,
which has a small modification
>
> I'll go check anyway...
Fine by me.
>
> Oh, and just a note - the XOOM server must be bonkers - it
> won't accept the RAR file. So only the zip files for now.
OK, I'll keep that in mind.
>
> Bye
Seeyas
>
> Ian
Rink
>
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