[dhouston]

wow, time warp. (i think it was int 10h though, for the video bios, and you had to poke around different ports to change the vga palette :))

things have, um, changed significantly -- nowadays libraries like directx abstract away the details of direct hardware access and handle graphics, sound, input, timers, etc.

if you're just looking to play around with games, pygame is perfect for you -- http://www.pygame.org .

if you're really looking to learn the details, you should probably grab a couple books on amazon (hard to recommend one in particular without knowing what you wanna do.)

[pistoriusp]

I completely agree with you but I would rather recommend Pyglet (http://www.pyglet.org/) than pygame.

[whacked_new]

pygame obviously has better coverage (10-to-1 hits on google)... this is the first time I saw pyglet. What's better about it?

[pistoriusp]

I couldn't use pygame on os x because it required a dependancy that wouldn't compile, I'm not sure which dependancy is was.

Pyglet has no dependencies and I just found it a lot simpler than pygame to get started with.