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Article #424VGA Latches
From: Court Demas
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 15:06
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 15:06
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I'm fairly new to VGA hardware programming, but I think I've really gotten the hang of the registers and latches and such (for Mode-X in particular). The problem: is there ANY way to perform logical functions between the latches and video memory? I can AND/OR/XOR pixels onto the screen very easily - just setting the rotate/function select, reading from video (to prime the latches) and then writing back. This makes sense, but many of my routines write to all planes at once - like rectangle fills, horizontal lines, and all bitblts. Animating with ModeX seems a tad bit less attractive if it takes 4x as long just to do an XOR. any suggestions? -court
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Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!wupost!udel!rochester!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!cd2a+ Newsgroups: rec.games.programmer Message-ID: <geTytQu00WB7I3IJUQ@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1992 11:06:04 -0400 From: Court Demas <cd2a+@andrew.cmu.edu> Subject: VGA Latches Lines: 14