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From: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS video utility
Keywords: video
Message-ID: <7809@cg-atla.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 89 20:52:58 GMT
References: <2937@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU>
Reply-To: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
Organization: Agfa Compugraphic Division
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In article <2937@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> fsimmons@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (Frank Simmons) writes:
>I am looking for a utility that will tell me what level of video I have
>in my PC (CGA,EGA,VGA). In additon, I would also like an opinion (from the
>software) as to the nature of the video board in the backplane. Does something
>like this exist already?




I don't know of a specific program to tell  you this, but you might check out
some issues of `Dr. Dobbs Journal from earlier this year. There were a couple
of them in which articles by either Jeff Duntemann or oh darn I forget the name,
but the guy who died recently who wrote the graphics column(oh yeah, Kent Porter)
described an algorithm and gave some Pascal (or mayhbe Modula) for determining
what kind of video adapter is on board, and in some cases whether or not it
has a monochorme tube tied to it.

Check it out--very good piece of detective work.

Fred