Pixel in a Windows Console?

[iostream]

Hi!
I want to know how can I display pixels in screen with MS-DOS , so I can draw any figure without using the Win32 API.

Can you help me with this?
Thank You!

[kbw]

It's different for each graphics mode. And you won't be able to do it on modern graphics cards in a general way.

[Duthomhas]

You can do it with the VESA standard, which, while old, is still valid.

I recommend you get the book Programmer's Guide to the EGA, VGA, and Super VGA Cards by Richard Ferraro.
http://www.amazon.com/Programmers-Guide-EGA-Super-Cards/dp/0201624907

Hope this helps.

[kbw]

VESA was published in '94, a lot of Microsoft development effort was moving off DOS onto Windows by then, WFW was in vogue and W95 was a year later, and Daytona (Windows NT) was out and being used on one huge commercial project (I know because I was there).

So VESA was never part of mainstream DOS development, but if it works, go for it.

[Duthomhas]

VESA has nothing to do with DOS. It has to do with standards and interoperability.
See http://www.vesa.org/About/index.htm

As for SVGA cards, if it is VESA-compliant (and all modern cards are), then you can, knowing nothing else about it, program it using high-resolution (pixel and color) modes. It was founded in the late 1980s because SVGA cards were so different that programmers had to pick and choose which cards to support -- the standard provided a way to overcome this obstacle and guarantee at least an 800 by 600 pixel, truecolor display mode that you could access on any SVGA using the same code.

[george135]

MS-DOS doesn't exist any more (Console subsystem has nothing to do with DOS)
To draw figures, you must use Win32 api (GDI or other)

[kbw]

I was talking about MS-DOS. If you mean a console window, then george135 is absolutely correct.