Date:	Mon, 24 Feb 1997 09:40:53 +0000
From:	Bill Currie <billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>
Subject:	Re: directx? for djgpp (sort of :)
To:	DJGPP Mailing List <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Reply-to:	billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz
Message-id:	<33116225.298D@blackmagic.tait.co.nz>
Organization:	Tait Electronics NZ
MIME-version:	1.0
References:	<199702210754 DOT KAA12257 AT marstu DOT mari DOT su>

Serge Golovin wrote:
> 
> Bill Currie wrote:
> > Also, not everybody HAS a vesa video card (eg me, I've got a 90 or 91
> > PROTOTYPE (according to the bios) paradise card, no vesa in those days)
> Then you may (or should) emulate VESA by software.

Disk space (80M total, 50M djgpp+my source)

> Anyway - VESA is thing which accumulates all the variety of cards and
> I'd better code for VESA than issue a couple of drivers with my program.

I don't have anything againts VESA, in fact I think it's pretty good.  I
just don't like loading tsr's.  Maybe I should re-write my video bios
and make it vesa compliant (unfortuanaly, no LFB :( )

Bill
-- 
Leave others their otherness.

- Raw text -