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Message-Id: <199705131701.TAA02371@magigimmix.xs4all.nl>
From: "yeep" <yeep AT xs4all DOT nl>
To: <pierre AT tycho DOT com>, "OpenDOS Mailing List" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: OpenDOS graphics drivers
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 18:59:40 +0200
MIME-Version: 1.0

> > It is said that DirectX will not work on NT, Microsoft's vision of the
> > future.
> 
> Nothing *really* fast will work on NT. On NT, ports and memory protection
> prevents user space programs from access video hardware.

Well, the video-mem can be addressed as normal, by writing directly to
0xA000 (in a RM program), but the things is Windows NT doens't know any
mode 13h !!!!!
At least not in NT 3.51.
You get 640x480 in stead!!!
	
	Yeep

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