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Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 09:58:27 -0800
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Geez, im running out of ideas..
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Airhead Zoom wrote:
> 
> > Hi there..
> >
> > Well, im working on website for newbies with djgpp and allegro, but i have
> > no idea what to write?..theres few..but i need somethings to add...but
> > what??..
> >
> > If you have any ideas, contact me..pleeaasse?.
> > hmmm...i have to think..
> >
> > Thanks ..in advance..
> > Pekka..
> >
> >
> >
> Easy, discuss everything about Pointers and DPMI. (eg how to access VGA memory
> without using DOSMEMPUT etc.)
> By the way, how DO you do that? I'd like to make portable code, but well,
> DOSmemput probably isn't protable :-). 

Neither is VGA memory.  If you want "portable" and "graphics" together,
you get to use some sort of library.  Allegro and its cousin XWinAllegro
come to mind.

> I've just got myself Linux, which is
> EXTREMELY nice, but DOSmemput doesn't work in that, of course.

Find out about SVGALIB, which isn't portable beyond Linux, but will give
you nice full-screen graphics.  It doesn't hide much of the VGA hardware
scheme, which you may or may not appreciate.
-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com