Re: what do you want to know?

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From: Baylor
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 16:44

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>1. is there really a low resolution mode in CGA ?
>   160 x 200 x 16 color GPHIC mode (not tweaked text mode..)
>
	It goes lower than that. Check out the nifty tunnler game.

>2. is there a generic way of addressing more than 512K for 
>   most VGA cards (assuming of course the card has that much memory on
>   it) 
>
	Eeks, don't know - vesa tries for a standard but doubt it's got
one. Maybe there's a nifty way to get to that memory, but i don't knwo
it.

>3.has any1 tweaked a 512 x 512 mode for most vga cards ?
>
	Yeah, it can be done for standard vga cards ( i hope you mean
logical page, not screen dimensions) using the set width and height
registers.

							- baylor

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