nineTENdo

hello everyone,
ive been trying to learn c for quite sometime now but i keep running in the same problems when trying to compile older program on older compliers. im running a BORLAND C++ 5.0 Complier on a WINDOWS 98 and i havnt been able to simple graphics on it i keep getting the same error on the GRAPHICS.H file. is there any way to check what kind of graphics card im running and simply change the types here is the exacte problem im running into:

#if defined( _Windows ) && !defined (__DPMI16__) && !defined(__DPMI32__)
#error BGI graphics not supported under Windows
#endif

I tryed searching for these files and replacing (_DPMI16_) and (DPMI32_) with
(_DPMI16bi_) and (_DPMI32vm_) of which i found instead but that didnt work either. What should i do?

Ive also tryed before to run Fractals from a book Programming Fractals in C that had the src files in those old big Floppy instead of the 3.1/4 floppies. so im pretty sure it has to be compalbility issue.
Thanks in adavance,
EL

nnxion

Well I can't really help you as I'm on Win XP using VC2003 (on a laptop), but
Works here.

Those 5.25 inch floppies were nice, didn't break, just a bit large (don't mean the capacity ).

EDIT: Welcome btw.

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Mocker

In the compiler, I forget where, but there is a location where you need to check under your project settings to tell Borland to use BGI graphics. Otherwise the compiler will not work with them.

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Cut the Gordian knot. Get a good, free, modern compiler. Toss ancient learning materials.

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InfoGeek

I second that. No need to waste time with some old and outdated compiler and library.

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nineTENdo

So if i get Bloodshed C/C++ it will have an updated version of GRAPHICS.H file that can either run under windows or 98

DaWei

98 IS Windows. Dev-Cpp doesn't have a graphics.h, at least in the typical distribution. It isn't a Borland compiler designed to run in a real-mode environment with a MS-DOS or similar operating system. It's just as well, because you almost certainly don't have one of those. If you do, shine it up and put it in a display case and get another system.

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nineTENdo

So Graphics.H is only for ms-dos versions? Does it only come in Borland compilers? Can i find a updated Graphics.h file on the internet that support current WIndows VGA's?

nnxion

Why would you want to?

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InfoGeek

You can try your luck with Win32 GDI or OpenGL.

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