I was recently feeling nostalgic and thought I would break out “Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus” and see if I could get some of the DirectDraw7 examples working on my Windows 10 computer using VS2017 community edition.
I was able to get the demo6_2.cpp running on my computer that is a fullscreen 640x480x8 bit mode program that does nothing it's just a black screen. But when I try the next one that is fullscreen 640x480x8 bit mode program that suppose to plot random colored pixels on the screen, it does not work and I have to …