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Article #1829XLIB04 again... And another question!
From: Chris Macksey
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:36
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:36
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Hm.... As yet no response on my query on where XLIB04 is... *sigh*. I've heard rumours that it's on SIMTEL somewhere, but I've checked the GRAPHICS, VGA, PGMUTL, C, TURBO-C, and ASMUTL directories for it to no avail. (Then again, I'm _technically_ not looking on SIMTEL, I'm looking in oak.oakland.edu - but it's supposed to be a mirror, and one with very little delay, or so I've heard). The only thing I've received is an e-mail asking me if I'd found out yet. Please, please, please, PLEASE tell me where XLIB is *sniff* *sob*..... Alright, Chris.... get ahold of yourself.... Aah. Much better. On another topic, is there any way to do page swapping in standard VGA 320x200x256 mode? I have a 1MB video card, yet the BIOS seems to only support one page in this mode. Can anyone enlighten me as to why this silly restriction is there? I suppose I could put the image into a bitmap and use the putimage() (BGI) function to put it on the screen, but that means I have to re-invent the wheel instead of using the standard BGI commands. (I'm using Turbo C v2.0 and the SVGA256.BGI driver). Any info on how to do (non-messy) page swapping (well, ok... it can even be a little messy) in this mode would be muchly appreciated. Thanks in advance... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Macksey "All kids love LOG(tm)!" (ummackse@ccu.umanitoba.ca) - Ren n' Stimpy.
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Newsgroups: rec.games.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!mizar.cc.umanitoba.ca!ummackse From: ummackse@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Chris Macksey) Subject: XLIB04 again... And another question! Message-ID: <C1AI52.A4M@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Summary: Where is XLIB? And how do you page swap in 320x200x256 mode? Keywords: XLIB MODEX XLIB04 VGA PAGE SWAPPING Sender: news@ccu.umanitoba.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: scotty.cc.umanitoba.ca Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:36:37 GMT Lines: 25