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On 2005-11-26, Victor <vwss1984@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> --- Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > What is the point of detecting the Windows versions?
> >
> > Peter
>
> The detecting is outdated and is buggy for newer Windows Versions, the
> most recent version that Allegro can detect is Win XP. A newer version
> of XP and Windows 2003 are detected as Windows 2000. And Longhorn and
> Vista will be detected as Windows NT.
But why do we need such fine-grained Win* detection, or any OS detection
at all? I understand that the djgpp port behaves differently when
running under Windows, but that's about it.
Peter