Working on "DOS" VGA.

Marcus Meissner marcus at jet.franken.de
Sun Apr 4 05:41:00 CDT 2010


On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 10:53:46AM +0200, Damjan Jovanovic wrote:
> But Win16 applications can access DOS int 0x21 functions (below,
> tested successfully on Wine and Vista), and at least some hardware
> (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/windows/programming/vxd/ describes how a
> Win16 application can access the VGA framebuffer). Doesn't that mean
> we need the vm86 support in Wine?

Yes, but those INT21 calls are in Win16 protected mode, not DOS real mode.

And VXD ... I doubt anything uses it.

Ciao, Marcus



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