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- Path: sparky!uunet!peora!tarpit!tous!bilver!syscon!nstar!miles!sjm
- From: sjm@miles.com (Scott Mark)
- Subject: Re: Does Microsoft C support SuperVGA ?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.180737.6051@miles.com>
- Organization: Miles Inc., Diagnostics Division, Elkhart, IN
- References: <92210.131741U37956@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:07:37 GMT
- Lines: 22
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- In article <92210.131741U37956@uicvm.uic.edu> U37956@uicvm.uic.edu writes:
- >
- > I am trying to draw graphics using Microsoft C 6.0 on SuperVGA
- >mode and Super VGA monitor. One of the statements I used is
- >
- > _setvideomode(X);
- >
-
- I know nothing about graphics supported by C 6.0, but C7 (the new C/C++)
- compiler does support SVGA modes.
-
- The good news is that lots of stuff is supported- all the VESA SVGA modes,
- up to and including 1024x768; multiple pages (or buffers, if you like) so
- you can do double buffering; automatic identification of graphic cards,
- amount of video RAM, etc; and other nice features.
-
- The bad news is that, for my card at least (Speedstar based on the TSENG 4000
- with 1 Meg of RAM, which I thought was a pretty standard setup) the RAM-sizing
- routine only sees 256K of RAM, so even C7 might not deliver everything you need.
-
- Scott Mark
- sjm@miles.com
-