I tried to have a sphere in a display list and it gave me an error, is there a way to have quadratics in display lists?

Trying to use the GLaux library?

What kind of error? Was it during compiling? When running the program? Give us a little more information...

its a runtime error saying "unhandled exception: c0000005"

OpenGL display list should work and spheres in display list too So probably its your fault... U can also use vertex arrays... GLAUX has a function to draw spheres (I think).