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Article #8799Re: Why no graphics in text mode?
From: Doug Stevens
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1990 19:59
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1990 19:59
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In article <206900161@prism>, rob@prism.TMC.COM writes: > It's possible - difficult and hardware-specific, but possible - to > put graphics on the screen in text mode by reprogramming the character set > ... Desqview can simultaneously display one window with true graphics-mode graphics, and another with text-mode text. I would REALLY like to know how to do this. (Incidentally, this is on a VGA system, 640 x 480)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tekfdi!videovax!dougs From: dougs@videovax.tv.tek.com (Doug Stevens) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Why no graphics in text mode? Summary: How does Desqview produce simultaneous text and graphic mode? Message-ID: <5682@videovax.tv.tek.com> Date: 17 Jan 90 19:59:58 GMT References: <25820@cup.portal.com> <206900161@prism> Organization: Tektronix TV Measurement Systems, Beaverton OR Lines: 10