![]() ![]() In a way this also helped the programmers as they did not have to write code specific to all the different video cards that were released to the marked, increasing the compatibility immensely. It provided access to graphics and sound hardware. Applications now had to access hardware functions through well defined interfaces and drivers. ![]() With the release of Windows 95 access to the hardware was made more difficult to prevent misbehaving programmes from freezing the PC. The same is true for the Windows versions up to 3.11, which were basically only GUIs for DOS. Before the rise of Windows to dominance over the PC marked, most games were written for the older DOS operating system, where access to the hardware was always possible as there were no protective measures in place to prevent programmes from manipulating any resources installed in the machine. ![]()
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