fatman2021 wrote:
Give it up!!!! Just get hold of something like DevC++ and the SDL includes, and then use SDL for your program!!!!
I like to use VBE becouse it comes on most of the new video cards. At lest most of the good ones....So if you have any info that can help, by all means tell me. If not, don't post any thing here..... :-x
Seriously, I'm trying to help you.
If you try to program VBE then you are going to have to rewrite your code for every operating system you want to run your program on.
My advice is SDL (
http://www.libsdl.org/index.php), this is a hardware independant media layer. I assure you that SDL is far more portable (all modern Operating systems support it), much faster (it uses graphics hardware acceleration, where VBE can not) and so much easier to use than directly hitting a VBE card.
Here is a part of the SDL FAQ:
Q: What is Simple DirectMedia Layer?
A: Very simply, Simple DirectMedia Layer, or SDL for short, is a library that allows you low level access to a video framebuffer, audio output, mouse, keyboard, and joysticks across a wide variety of operating systems.
Oh, and it supports 3D acceleration via the OpenGL API
Sounds good doesn't it :-)
