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echo: os2prog
to: Mike Bilow
from: Kevin Ring
date: 1995-12-20 12:01:46
subject: Non-PM Graphics

*** Quoting Mike Bilow to Kevin Ring dated 03-09-09 ***
> Kevin Ring wrote in a message to All:
> 
>  KR> Is it possible to create a non-PM 32 bit OS/2 native program
>  KR> that uses graphics modes (such as mode 13h)?  
> 
> You can write a 32-bit OS/2 program that runs in full-screen text mode.
>  However, it would need to call at least some of the 16-bit VioXxxxx 
> API calls.

Ok.. but what I'm wondering is if it would be possible to rewrite a game...
 Let's say Doom, just as an example..  and have that game run without
requiring Presentation Manager graphics. (IE: Run through a shell such as
TSHELL).

In other words, can OS/2 "text mode" sessions take advantage of graphics.

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