Cream of the Crop 26/Cream of the Crop 26.iso/program/vgaed.zip/VGAEDIT.ZIP/VGAGENRL.TXT

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                            GENERAL INFO

  VGA EDIT 1.2 is a full VGA color editor and management utility
for DOS and Turbo C/C++. All palette and DAC register settings
can be edited and saved to files which are easaly loaded with a
single call. This allows you (the developer) to use the complete
color capabiltities of VGA in text graphics modes. You can get 16
out of over 256k color combinations. The color scheme of you
product and litraly change with every key stroke giving you ture
graphics color with the speed of text and smallness of text
graphics.
  The editor (vgaedit.exe) is full mouse,cursored and hotkeyed
for friendly use. All fungtions have help screens called by F1.
All file overwrites are prompted and backed up.
  Four executes are included in the distributed version
(savedac.exe, loaddac.exe, savepal.exe, and loadpal.exe). There
is an online document and demo program with source. Also a
document reader/printer (readocs.exe) that will print documents
in a preformated for binder format. The libs and executes will
install and deinstall with install.exe.
  A note about VGA color.  EGA color is restricted to The first
64 DAC registers and these are set and not changable. In vga
color the DAC registers as well as the palette registers can be
changed. In VGA the DAC registers can be set to over 256,000
different settings giving you 16 out of over 256,000 colors and
the DAC as well as the palette can be saved for easy management
of multable color schemes in plain DOS text graphics mode.

  This program and utility requier a VGA video card, 286 or
better, and mouse. A 9 pin dot matrics is needed to print the
docs.