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- From: tvilla@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Tim Villa)
- Subject: Re: BGI and Trident SVGA
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.072710.21658@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
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- References: <1992Jul9.105213.10187@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 07:27:10 GMT
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- gehrke@scoop.ims.uni-hannover.dbp.de (Winfried Gehrke) writes:
-
- >There are several BGI (Borland Graphics Interface) drivers on
- >ftp sites.
- >But they don't work with my 'Trident 8900 C' VGA card in
- >SVGA-modes (e.g. 1024*768,16).
-
- I've always found Borland's drivers to be a bit of a pain even though
- I love their compilers more than life itself. What it comes down to is
- that you need a different BGI for every video card (CGA/Herc/VGA etc)
- and sometimes even for different video modes. For example, I have a
- Trident 9000 512K card which supports up to 800x600x256. Needless to
- say you can get 320x200x256 which is what most crappy games use now.
- The VGA BGI I use will only give you 16 colors-to use 256 you need the
- VGA256.BGI driver. I expect the same goes for your super VGA. Bear it
- in mind also that lots of apps won't work very well with SVGA yet.
-
- Tim Villa
- villa_t@kultarr.cs.uwa.edu.au
- tvilla@tartarus.uwa.edu.au
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