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Article #5030Re: Some QuickC w/ SVGA & VGA questions.
From: Doug McDonald
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1991 19:06
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1991 19:06
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In article <1991Mar5.190626.23098@unicorn.cc.wwu.edu> kevinj@unicorn.cc.wwu.edu (Kevin Johnson) writes: > > The Microsoft C graphics package does not support anything above regular > VGA (640x480x16), basically what you can get on a standard VGA through > calls to the BIOS. > > You can always get a third party package (but that`s just more $$$). > > > --Kevin Long ago I posted a set of graphics routines to do things like text in 8 and 14 line high characters, lines, filled rectangles, and open and filled ellipses to the net. It was called "egafast" (or was it vgafast?) and was written in assembly language. It is very easy to change this thing to do any resolution up to 600x800x16 colors. It is not easy to change it for 16 colors at higher than 600x800 or for any resolution at 256 colors. Doug McDonald
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!m.cs.uiuc.edu!ibma0.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Some QuickC w/ SVGA & VGA questions. Message-ID: <1991Mar5.213124.12690@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 5 Mar 91 19:06:26 GMT References: <1991Mar5.190626.23098@unicorn.cc.wwu.edu> <15296@cuphub.cup.edu> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 23