Re: vgalib

[Shane Kerr]

On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Eric J. Korpela wrote:

> > Windows 1.x was also black-and-white, I believe.  No scalable fonts, etc,
> > etc.
> 
> Actually, it was up to 16 colors.  (I was running it at 800x600x16 on an
> SVGA card at one point.)  There weren't scalable bitmap fonts, but many
> apps supported vector fonts to get around that. 

Oh yeah!  I was using a CGA adaptor, which Windows put into 640x200x2
mode.  Windows was cool.  :)

Shane