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On July 27, 2008, Peter Wang wrote:
> On 2008-07-23, Milan Mimica <milan.mimica@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> > > I'm not 100% certain but I think it effects pure DOS exes as well. Its
> > > as if noone ever tested the C only mode with DOS (and I mean pure C,
> > > with all of the asm disabled including various drivers that depend on
> > > it, and all of the fancy allegro calling conventions..)
> >
> > Someone should officially test it.
> >
> > The problem with reenabling ASM mode, even only for DJGPP, is that the
> > new draw_trans_sprite_ex() (or what the name is) has no ASM
> > implementation.
>
> Does that matter?
>
> There used to be two distinctions: whether the port used hand-written
> drawing routines, and whether the port used special calling conventions
> for bank switching routines. They were conflated later when
> ALLEGRO_NO_ASM and ALLEGRO_USE_C got combined.
>
> Like Elias, I found qemu exceedingly slow and my old p233 laptop with
> Win98 still on it is also slower than I remember, so fixing this isn't
> exactly fun. If worse comes to worst, we can drop DOS support in 4.4.0.
> Someone who cares can fix it for 4.4.1+.
>
> Peter
>
Have you guys tried qemu with the kqemu or kvm modules? Otherwise use
VirtualBox instead, its MUCH faster.
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