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Date Posted: 13:40:22 09/06/03 Sat
Author: No name
Subject: Re: I can't play the games
In reply to: Patrick Shaughnessy 's message, "Re: I can't play the games" on 23:28:32 09/05/03 Fri

>>>All the games commit an illegal operation after I
>open
>>>them
>>
>>I see this too, on Gentoo linux. The problem is:
>> disp=create_video_bitmap(W,H);
>> buf=create_video_bitmap(W,H);
>>
>>buf returns NULL, but is not checked for this.
>Placing:
>>if(!buf) { buf = disp; }
>>fixes it, but the lack of double-buffering makes it
>>flickery.
>
>I was assuming any computer adequate to play on would
>have enough video ram to create 2 buffers. I made a
>lot of assumptions like that.
>
>Interesting workaround forcing it to single-buffer.
>
>>Also, on gcc it won't compile unless you include the
>>correct headers (stdio.h and stdlib.h)
>
>I guess that's one of the things minGW differs from
>vanilla gcc on.

Actually, I used g++, since you used a .cpp extension - not sure if ISO C++ requires prototypes.

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