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Article #41793Re: More than 16 colors wanted
From: Jeff Bakke
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 05:05
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 05:05
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In article <7962@hubcap.clemson.edu> chrisb@hubcap.clemson.edu (Chris B.) writes: >How can I use my Turbo Pascal or Turbo C to access the multitude of >colors available on the VGA screen. (Pascal preferred) >I want to be able to use more shades of a color than the default 16 >given by the software. >Thank You. >Chris Behrens ChrisB@Hubcap.Clemson.Edu Well, what you need to do is obtain the VGA 256 color mode .BGI driver available on compuserve and ftp from Simtel20 I think in the graphics or turbo-c directory. The standard BGI units do not allow you to work in BIOS Mode 13h, which is the 320x200 256 color mode. All the other modes are limited to 16 colors. Of course, you could always write your own graphics routines for this mode :-). Jeff Bakke bakke@plains.NoDak.edu You should be able to find the new .BGI toolkit and driver at just about any ftp site with MSDOS software.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!mintaka!ogicse!plains!bakke From: bakke@plains.UUCP (Jeff Bakke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.graphics,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: More than 16 colors wanted Keywords: On VGA PC using Turbo something Message-ID: <3406@plains.UUCP> Date: 13 Feb 90 05:05:51 GMT References: <7962@hubcap.clemson.edu> Reply-To: bakke@plains.UUCP (Jeff Bakke) Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo Lines: 23