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- From: hcp@csx.cciw.ca (H.C. Pulley)
- Subject: Re: MGR (was Re: Are we dead??)
- Organization: Canada Centre for Inland Waters
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 14:18:49 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.141849.18987@csx.cciw.ca>
- References: <1992Nov18.215447.22512@netcom.com> <9211201547@fcshome.UUCP>
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- In article <9211201547@fcshome.UUCP> fredex@fcshome.UUCP (fred smith) writes:
- >Bill Whedon (whedon@netcom.com) wrote:
- >: As to graphics standards to code to, I suggest we stick to those defined
- >: in the VESA VBE 1.2 Standard. That covers most of the older ones (640x480xn,
- >: 800x600xn, etc), and prevents a lot of wasted time on weird things nobody
- >: uses any more except a few die-hards with antiques they don't want to dump
- >: (like me, on one of my machines :-) ) Windows/Dos Developers Journal did a
- >: nice rundown on VBE in their October, 1992 issue, if you need a reference.
- >: Cheers,
- >: Bill Whedon whedon@netcom.com
- >:
- >
- >One VGA video mode to consider is what Michael Abrash (of DDJ) calls
- >"mode-X". Which is apparently supported by all vga cards (but not, as I
- >recall, the BIOS), and offers significant advantages for graphics
- >programming. As I remember Michael's articles, he says that pixels are
- >square, you get 16 colors, and video memory is laid out in such a way as
- >to be very fast and easy to update the display. He has published a
- >series of articles in DDJ over the last year or so about doing fast
- >animatin in Mode X. For serious graphics it might be worth looking at.
-
- Correct me if I am wrong, but... isn't mode X 320x240x256 resolution?
-
- While this is a good resolution for games, it is not very good for windowed
- systems.
-
- I think that Hercules and VGA 640x480x16 will be the first modes that I am
- going to try. Once we get something working we'll see about getting other
- modes, VESA standard, etc.
-
- Harry
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