Question

I want to create a simple video renderer to play around, and do stuff like creating what would be a mobile OS just for fun. My father told me that in the very first computers, you would edit a specific memory address and the screen would update. I would like to simulate this inside a window in Windows. Is there any way I can do this with C#?

Answer 1

It’s a full featured topic that’s outside the scope (it won’t fit, not that i won’t ramble about it for hours 🙂 of this answer..but this should get you started with drawing in C#

http://www.geekpedia.com/tutorial50_Drawing-with-Csharp.html

Things have come a bit from the old days of direct memory manipulation..although everything is still tied to pixels.

Edit: Oh, and if you run into flickering problems and get stuck, drop me a line and i’ll send you a DoubleBuffered panel to paint with.