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to: Kurt Kuzba
from: George White
date: 1998-10-05 07:41:00
subject: Pixels

Hi Kurt,

KK>DV> -> Direct screen manipulation depends on hardware and interface.
KK>DV>   I am running on a Pentium-S 120 with 32 megs EDO-RAM, a
KK>DV>   Virge-DX (S3) video card, and OS/2 Warp 4. Does this help??
KK>   Yes, a lot. but it means I don't know much about it since
KK>   most of my experience is in DOS and Windows. It may be the
KK>   same, for all I know. Does OS/2 still use the DOS video BIOS
KK>   interrupt 10h stuff? You may also need to get permission to
KK>   even access the video memory, as OS/2 may not want to share.

No, it uses it's own code. You can run a DOS program in full screen mode
and do whatever.

George

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