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Mode 13h

Started by aethelwyrd Apr 21, 2003 at 9:15 AM 5 replies 700+ views

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Apr 21, 2003 at 9:15 AM

I used to use mode 13 all the time during the 20th century when it was the coolest thing ever, and I was going to use it again for a C project at school. However I can''t seem to find a way to enter mode 13. Microsoft''s graph.h and dos.h libraries are missing from VC++ 6 (stupid microsoft) so I can''t use those. I''ve been search the next but everything I''ve found seems to really on those headers to work. Does anyone know a way to use mode 13 with VC 6? If not is there an equally simple way the access the video card without using OpenGL or DirectX?

PurpleAmethyst

Apr 21, 2003 at 9:19 AM

Use SDL - www.libsdl.org

You can do all the things you can do it mode 13h with this. You might have to learn a bit more stuff, but the lib comes with great examples of how to blit and draw pixels etc.