                       
                       WinDirect Version 2.0
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What is WinDirect
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    WinDirect is a runtime package for Windows 3.1 and Windows '95 that
    provides direct access to the display hardware, for both 16 bit and
    32 bit Windows applications. Traditionally Windows applications have
    had to perform all graphics output using the standard Graphics Device
    Interface (GDI). Although the GDI is very extensive and powerful, it is
    also not particularly fast for the sort of graphics that real time
    applications like interactive video games require.
 
    WinDirect breaks this barrier by allowing high performance applications
    to shut down the normal GDI interface, and to take over the entire
    graphics display hardware. Once GDI has been shut down, interactive
    graphics applications can re-program the display controller and write
    directly to video memory. WinDirect applications can program any
    standard VGA video mode, such as 640x480x4 or 320x200x8, or it can
    re-program the controller and run standard VGA ModeX style graphics,
    and even call the standard VESA BIOS routines to run high resolution
    SuperVGA graphics.
 
    WinDirect also includes a Windows version of the PM/Pro library, which
    provides services for calling real mode code, directly accessing linear
    framebuffer memory on SuperVGA devices, and for providing a virtualised
    framebuffer for SuperVGA devices that do not have a hardware linear
    framebuffer.
 
    But best of all, WinDirect applications are still standard Windows
    applications, so you can use all the standard Windows multi-media API's
    for digitised sound, CD-ROM audio, networking etc.
 
Supported compilers:
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    WinDirect 2.0 supports the following popular Windows compilers for both
    Win16 and Win32 executeables:

        o Borland C++ 4.x 
        o Symantec C++ 6.x/7.x
        o Visual C++ 1.5x/2.x 
        o Watcom C++ 10.x 

Contacting SciTech Software:
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     You can contact SciTech Software through one of the following means to
     find out more about WinDirect 2.0:
 
        www   : www.scitechsoft.com
        ftp   : ftp.scitechsoft.com
        email : sales@scitechsoft.com (sales)
                support@scitechsoft.com (technical support)
        phone : (916) 894 8400 (sales)
        fax   : (510) 208 8026

     You can also download both Windows Write 3.1 and Word 6.0 versions of
     our products overview from our ftp site:

        ftp.scitechsoft.com: /products.wri
        ftp.scitechsoft.com: /products.doc
   
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