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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal 5.x
Keywords: Pascal, EGA/VGA
Message-ID: <1469@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 89 04:22:35 GMT
References: <22642@prls.UUCP> <2708@solo10.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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In article <2708@solo10.cs.vu.nl> msschaa@cs.vu.nl (Schaap MS) writes:
<In article <22642@prls.UUCP> wolsheim@prls.UUCP (Evert Wolsheimer) writes:
<>Question : can anyone tell me if Turbo Pascal 5.x has EGA/VGA drivers ? 
<
<Yes/ja.
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<Turbo Pascal 5.x has EGA/VGA drivers.
<But, it is not possible to use the 256 color mode.
<
<But recently, in the newsgroup comp.graphics, there has been
<posted a new driver that does use them.

The recently released (free) BGI toolkit include a driver for
256 color mode.
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