[AD] Proposal to drop DOS port from Allegro 4

["Clayton Weaver" <vgdesigner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been thinking about something (plus I say a comment about it in the 
forums). I propose, and a lot seem to agree, that DOS should be dropped from 
Allegro. It should be dropped for several reasons. Firstly, the programmers 
mainly only use DOS because they are used to it. Secondly, Windows has 
gotten rid of DOS from Windows 2000 and up. Thirdly, the DOS port is greatly 
limiting what Allegro could possibly do. Finally, there is a great Windows 
compiler (Dev-C++) which is free and easy to learn to use. DOS is obselete 
or rapidly becoming obsolete and should be dropped from Allegro before the 
Allegro project suffers. By suffers I mean before it loses users becuase 
they can't play the games for compatibility in Windows.

--Clayton Weaver

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