OpenEuphoria

RE: Are people interested in 2d games libraries?

• Posted by stabmaster_ at hotmail.com Oct 18, 2002
• 377 views

>If you intend for other people to play your games, then you should
>seriously consider using DirectX (or other modern technologies) as DOS
>apps (especially games that access video memory directly) rarely work
>on modern operating systems (WindowsNT, Windows2000 and I assume
>WindowsXP).

Actually, VGA modes (like 320x200, 256x256 and probably planar 320x240) 
works just fine in recent MS OS:s (well, in Win2k anyway, haven't tried XP). 
Programs using VESA modes won't run though. But if you can live with low-res 
and only 256 colors then by all means...  :)  Of course, there are other 
reasons to go for a Windows-based game. Like if you're going to have 
music/sound-fx.