Re: [AD] Old problems that still persist on Allegro 4.2 beta 3

[Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>    I don't know, no one removed it untill now, perhaps we should ask 
Evert.

I don't think we should remove the demo.

> An easier solution (perhaps a solution for lazy people like me) would be 
> to fix "thanks._tx", replacing the accented characters by their 7-bit 
> ASCII counterparts. I've submitted once a patch for thanks._tx  to 
> alleg-developers that removed these accents, but now it is probably 
> outdated. Evert told that he would apply the patch if the demo.dat font 
> weren't fixed, as he wrote:

Hmm... I thought I had applied it, actually. If we still want to do this, 
then there's no reason someone can't make the change and just post a 
message here saying he did.

>     And about the src\dos\wss.c driver? Is anybody willing to fix it?  

I don't think it's a question of being willing, but more a question of 
being able. I don't think most of us are capable of testing it.

> Do you think it worths spending time to fix it or is MS-DOS just too 
> obsolete?

That question aside and regardless of DOS support post 4.2, 4.2 does 
support DOS and as such it is worth it to fix problems.

>     If I had more time I would fix it myself, but I don't know when I'll 
> have a break. It could be tomorrow or only in 2006.

Can you remind me again what the exact problem is with the driver? Does it 
actually crash or just not output the correct sound?
If you have any idea, no matter how vague, on how to solve the problem, it 
would help.

Evert