Re: [AD] Allegro on Sparc

[Thomas F. <tfj...@te...>]

On May 27, 2002 05:24 pm, Evert Glebbeek wrote:
> Don't know if this is of any relevance to anyone, or if it was tested
> before, but I tried installing Allegro on my university account today.
> They're SUN (Ultra)Sparc's running Solaris 8 and Allegro compiled out of
> the box without any problems and programs ran fine. Ok, I *did* hit my
> disk quotum once while compiling and got a couple of #pragma warnings, but
> that's probably just the weird compiler setup they have.
> It was slow as hell (only got the basic XWin windowed driver), I didn't
> get any digital sound support (though the machines do have a sound card,
> sortof anyway) and the only MIDI driver available was the digmid driver
> (which wasn't particularly useful without digital sound), but it worked!
> Just thought I'd share it.

Thats cool. so if anyone actually want's a sparc port, it wouldn't take that 
much work :) just a native video and digital sound driver. Cool.

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