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From: gs940971@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (glen sunada f84)
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Subject: Re: TP5 and SIGMA-400 graphics
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Date: 6 Dec 89 08:25:14 GMT
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In article <5769@eos.UUCP>, renata@eos (Daniel Delgado) writes:
>    Our lab has a strange graphics card (SIGMA 400).  It is
>    a cga card but it does have a hi res mode.  Does anybody
>    know of a way to use it with Turbo Pascal 5.0 so that
>    one can access the hi res?


Yes - write your own BGI driver for it (you will need to know C and Assembly
as well as how to program the hardware (( BIOS, CRTC, etc )) of the board.)

Before you ask me the BGI ref's are available on SIMTEL20 the file is

PD1:<MSDOS.BORLAND>BGIDRIV.ARC

Glen U. Suanda
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