>Now, I know that you can change the color of the border on the typical
>monitor.
>I was wondering, however . . has anybody ever written individual pixels
>in the border? If so, one could expand the usable graphics area of
>the screen . . . I assume it can't be done, otherwise it would have
>been done by now, but I had to ask, just to get a *real* answer
>instead of living with my assumptions.
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>|ed -- gilligan@camelot.bradley.edu |
>| -- gilligan@cs1.bradley.edu | If you want a friend, feed any animal. |
>| Are you deviant? Probably. | -Jane's Addiction |
There are ways of kinda writing individual *rows* of pixels in the border of the vga screen by "emmulating" the copper on an Amiga.
If you change colour 0 ( the background colour) **REALLY FAST** ie. while you are still in horizontal retrace you can cycle the palette so fast that every
*scanline* down the screen is a different colour, including the border.
If you are in a low res mode like 320x240x256 or even in a 16 colour mode at
low res then each pixel is 2 scanlines so you can change the background
colour every half a pixel. Wait for DEA's forthcoming demo for an example
of the above.
--
Louis Solomon - a student at The University of Tasmania
e-mail: u910826@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au
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