Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/05/07/09:02:25
Radu Georgescu aka skoola writes:
>> Most of those are in the FreeBE/AF. Get it from
>> http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/freebe/index.html
>> and download the source. Don't think it has the sis, but
>> apart from that it has supported cards from all the
>> manufacturers you wanted.
>
> I've already done that but the code for ati is so
> complicated i couldn't handle it ant i thought thre
> is someone who has a more simple routine...
VBE/AF is one of the most sane graphics driver designs that
I have ever seen, so if this is too complicated for you, I'm
afraid you may be out of luck. There is after all a minimum
level of complexity below which it just isn't possible to
do anything interesting...
One of the main reasons for having a standard driver
interface like VBE/AF is that you can use those drivers
without having to understand all the code inside them.
That still isn't trivial (see the vbeaf.c file from
Allegro for details), but you only have to write this
code once in order to get your program running on any
machine that has a VBE/AF driver.
If all this is still too much for you, why don't you just
use an existing library like Allegro or GRX?
Shawn Hargreaves.
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