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I think the search term you want is "svgalib" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVGALib

It looks like at least some versions of Allegro and SDL supported it as a backend.

One of the original Quake I implementations — as in authored by Carmack and Taylor themselves — used SVGAlib as a backend. I remember this because of having to configure my mouse to co-exist with GPM in some file in /etc for svgalib.

Nice breadcrumb: https://web.archive.org/web/19991008210746/http://webpages.m...

Allegro thats a name i have not heard since 2002 i think. Kids these days would know SDL, DirectX , LOVR or Raylib.

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