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Article #71662How to detect video card type
From: Philip McNab
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 00:00
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I have a unbranded laptop PC (which I *think* is identical to a Sanyo NB386), supplied with minimal documentation. I want to find out what sort of video card it has, so that I can play with different text modes for use with the Textwin replacement for KA9Q NOS. The only utility I have is an old version of PC tools, which tells me only that the card is a 'VGA', but I thnk I need to know what make it is to figure out more about the non-standard text modes (e.g 80X50, 132*43) Does anyone know of either a) a shareware/freeeware/PD utility that does this sort of identification work or b) the BIOS functions/memory addresses that I could use to determine this? I'm a reasonably skilled C programmer, with Turbo C v2. -- / Philip McNab // philip@siberia.demon.co.uk /
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,a0ee412929675817,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public From: Philip McNab <philip@siberia.demon.co.uk> Subject: How to detect video card type Date: 1995/11/21 Message-ID: <816978470snz@siberia.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 119826720 x-nntp-posting-host: siberia.demon.co.uk organization: Siberia reply-to: philip@siberia.demon.co.uk newsgroups: demon.tech.pc