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sos@FreeBSD.org stands accused of saying:
> 
> > Well, I think that's actually a bit harsh..  I've seen a couple of
> > perfectly acceptable games running under svgalib (asteroids, doom) and
> > apparently there's even a slick little gui toolkit somewhere for it.
> 
> What gui toolkit - where - where - show me, maybe it could save me
> writing some 1000's lines of code :) :)

How much GUI toolkit were you planning on writing?  If all you were 
planning on was a set of base primitives, you should check out libgrx 
that comes as a part of DJGPP (the gcc port to MSDOS).  There's also
a BGI-to-grx wrapper library that would make porting dos-BGI programs
a boatload easier...

> Soren Schmidt             (sos@FreeBSD.org)             FreeBSD Core Team

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