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From: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: How can I tell what monitor there is?
Message-ID: <934@kosman.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 89 22:12:08 GMT
Reply-To: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman)
Followup-To: poster
Organization: K.O.'s Manor - Vital Computer Systems, Oxnard, CA 93035
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I'm programming in an interpreter language that has some pretty good
built-ins for video stuff, and I'm writing programs that will run in
different environments.  So, I want to tailor the operation of the
code to the local environment.

My problem is that I don't know how to determine the local environment.
I have the ability to do the equivalent of BASIC peeks, so I could do
some browsing of RAM if I knew where to look.

Mainly, I want to know if I have color or not.  Right now, I don't care
too much if it's CGA, EGA or VGA, but if there's a way to tell and you
know it, you may as well throw that information my way, too.

Email is best, I guess.