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From: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: determining cga, ega, vga
Message-ID: <1040@chyde.uwasa.fi>
Date: 12 Nov 89 16:48:46 GMT
References: <5695@lindy.Stanford.EDU> <8019@cg-atla.UUCP>
Reply-To: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Organization: U of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <8019@cg-atla.UUCP> fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith) writes:
>In article <5695@lindy.Stanford.EDU> GG.DAR@forsythe.stanford.edu (Aaron Reizes) writes:
>>How do I determine the type of video adapter installed,
>>CGA, EGA, or VGA?  So far I haven't found any easy way to be sure
>>which I am dealing with?
>
>Earlier this year there were a couple of articles in Dr. Dobbs Journal which
>outlined a procedure for determining not only what kind of video adapter is
>resident in a PC, but also whether it has a color or monochrome tube
>attached (except for CGA where you can't tell). Sorry, I don't recall which

True, and CGA can be tested for by the Turbo Pascal graphics
detection routine included in graph.tpu.

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Prof. Timo Salmi                                (Site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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