[comp.sys.ibm.pc] Windows graphics drivers

bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) (03/10/88)

Anybody know what the specification is for how to write a graphics
device driver for Microsoft Windows?

nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (03/10/88)

In article <1506@dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:
>Anybody know what the specification is for how to write a graphics
>device driver for Microsoft Windows?

Sure do.  All you have to do is plunk down your $500 for your Windows
Developer's Kit, another $400 (or whatever) for your MS-C compiler, ask
Microsoft for the nondisclosure agreement to get a Device Driver Kit, send
it back in, and you'll get back some docs and about 8 disks full of sample
device driver sources.  This is sufficient to write a device driver for either
a screen or a printer.  It doesn't help you if you're trying to write an
ethernet device driver like I am.
-russ
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