[fpc-devel] bug report

[Tomas Hajny]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 08:58:09 +0200, Jonas Maebe wrote
> On 12 okt 2004, at 07:04, Chess Player wrote:
> 
> > To give the windows version a more rigorous test, I compiled
> > a DOS filter program I wrote as a partial replacement for
> > ANSI.SYS.  It failed to display ANSI pictures properly;
> > it seems that BIOS calls don't work.  (I can't use the CRT unit
> > because piping can't be used with it.)
> 
> You can indeed probably not call the Bios from Windows programs. You 
> have to use the win32 api.

... or our existing low-level units like "Video", "Keyboard" and "Mouse" as
appropriate, which are cross-platform.

Tomas