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In article <cbc54GO00Vpg84nUYG@andrew.cmu.edu>, gw1e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gabriel M. Wachob) says:
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>I just got what seems to be an excellent book on programming VGA
>(including super VGA)... Its called "The Programmer's Guide to EGA and
>VGA" I don't have it here in front of me, but I remember the author's
>name is something like Forester (It began with an F)...
>The book has separate chapters on different super VGA cards, Tseng
>Labs(mine), C&T, Paradise, Video 7, and a couple others....
>Neat book with C and Assembly source code. The thing about programming
>VGA cards is that you often need to use assembly if you want things to
>go quickly enough... Assembly does have its uses...
>(Although, I have found that Turbo C++'s asm inline assembly command
>assembles all the assembly language examples in the book, so this really
>shouldn't be a problem...).
>-gmw

I picked up "The Programmer's Guide to SuperVGA" and I like it too. This
is supposed to be the Volume two to the one above. I have two complaints:
1) is that my ATI board seems to be too new for this book. Maybe I just don't
have the correct one. Mine is an ATI OEM product with ATI's 28800 VLSI and
18810 Dot Graphics something or other but they talk about the 18800 in the
book. 
2) TAsm will not compile the examples they have on disk. The Draw.Exe
demo that is supposed to be for the ATI dies on the fourth screen or so with
little circles in the upper left corner.

Other than these, I think it's a great source of information.

Of course, who am I?

Carl Schelin
tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu