Re: [Dev-C++] mouse programming in DOS with assemly

[Markella K. <chr...@fr...>]

I have to do it in this way for the school.
Can I use DOS interrupts to solve this problem?
Krisztian
ps.: This <http://www.ana.sudani.co.uk/Programming/mouse.htm> solution 
would be great too.

>Sorry, the MinGW compiler used by Dev-C++ can't do MS-DOS applications. It
>generates 32-bit Windows applications (command line, graphical or
>servies).
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>The djgpp port of gcc can be used to write 32-bit extended MS-DOS
>applications but thease are also using protected mode where the
>application can't directly access the hardware.
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>For using 16-bit assembler access of the hardware you shouold continue
>with old TurboC or similar.
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>By the way - why do you want to access the mouse using assembler? The
>mouse is a slow input device, so there are no speed issues requiring
>assembler instructions. Optimized assember can result in a smaller memory
>footprint but the world have since quite some time moved away from the
>640kB restrictions of MS-DOS and the mouse handling isn't directly a large
>part of the memory requirements for a 32-bit application.
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