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From: bturner@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MS Windows game -- Tetris
Message-ID: <106580054@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Date: 20 Jul 89 17:09:59 GMT
References: <30097@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> As somebody pointed out the game doesn't work in Debugging version of windows,
> I quickly assembled debugging version and it didn't work, I was really
> surprise, because the error messaget that I got :
>     "Cannot read aux port" or someting like that
>     should have nothing to do with the game, I don't even touch 
>     auxilary port.

The debugging version of Windows (and SYMDEB and CodeView for Windows)
write information to COM1: (actually to AUX: which is mapped by default
to COM1:).  The intention is that there will be a terminal connected to
COM1: where debugging information can be printed and where commands can
be entered.

If you have a second display in your system, there is a driver called OX
that will map AUX: to the second display.

(I'm with Mike Roper on this:  How *have* you been debugging your apps if
you don't have a terminal or some other debugging method?)

--Bill Turner (bturner@hp-pcd.hp.com)
HP Corvallis Information Systems