Re: [Mingw-users] Advice linux framebuffer to windows port

[Diego I. <die...@gm...>]

Maybe allegro might help you. Never used it since my good old DOS days but
IMHO this what you are looking for :)

http://www.allegro.cc/

If you can't use it directly - maybe yoou can "borrow" some ideas, as they
have a very stable code base.

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Jonathan Andrews <jo...@jo...>wrote:

> I've written some framebuffer code on linux, it uses 16 bit 800x600
> framebuffer access (vga=0x315)
>
> Its been a very long time since i've programmed windows, how simple
> would it be to create a mingw version of my code that malloced some RAM
> and then copied the contents into a window.
>
> Anyone any suggestions for the best place to look, I don't want to write
> c++ syntax if I can avoid it.  Basically I just need to create a window
> 800x600, malloc a buffer big enough for 800x800x16bits - treat that ram
> as my framebuffer and write a function to munge the contents on the
> buffer into the window.
>
> Grateful for any advice. Thanks,
> Jon
>
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