Programming with Video Memory

[Arka Sharma]

Hi,

I want to learn and write programs to work with video memory both in windows and linux environment.Anyone please suggest some tutorials,books,sites.

Regards,
Arka

[Paul Santa Maria]

You're probably better served by learning one or more SDK's that take full advantage of your hardware, rather than delving down to the hardware level itself. Two excellent candidates:

* DirectX (Windows):
http://www.directxtutorial.com/

* OpenGL (Linux, Mac, Android, etc):
http://www.opengl.org/wiki/Getting_started

If you *must* implement your graphics directly in video memory, you should look at the Linux framebuffer:

http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO.html