From: "Damian Yerrick" <NOSP AT Musenet@pineight.8m.com>
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"sl" <junk AT bbs DOT darktech DOT org> wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Nov 1999 22:20:54 GMT, Damian Yerrick wrote:
>
> >The VESA specs are dense and DOS-only. For an easier, more
>
> Dense? In what way?

Hard to read.

> As for VESA only working for DOS.. How does Allegro
> work? Doesn't it simply rely on VESA for DOS support
> and use APIs for all other OSs?

Yep. DOS: VESA; Linux: fbcon or X; M$Win32: DirectX.


Damian Yerrick