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Re: Request info on Turbo-C 256 Color/VGA driver

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From: David Michael Shackelford
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 1990 05:54
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In article <3256@psueea.UUCP> jrb@jove.cs.pdx.edu (James Binkley) writes:
>Is there a BGI driver somewhere that supports some sort of 256 color
>VGA mode on the IBM PC?  I saw a passing reference to it in a book
>on graphics but it didn't mention from where?

Seems like I saw somewhere that there's a file on SIMTEL which has the
VGA256 driver, some more fonts, and a font editor.  It also had some
almost-good docs on how to make a new driver.

Hope this helps,    

Dave      |   shack@cs.arizona.edu
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From: shack@cs.arizona.edu (David Michael Shackelford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Request info on Turbo-C 256 Color/VGA driver
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Date: 23 Aug 90 05:54:40 GMT
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