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Subject: Re: Detecting display type (in assembler)
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Date: 13 Aug 90 17:39:26 GMT
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NEASE@MAINE.BITNET writes:

]I'm looking for a clean, safe way to determine what kind of display is being
]used on a PC or PS/2 type machine.  ie: I want to know if there is either no
]display adapter, or monochrome, or cga, ega, vga colour, vga paperwhite, mcga,
]pga.  I don't care which brand of card it is... I'm not worrying about whether
]the Vga chip set is Tseng or CHIPS, or ...    I'm trying to do this in
]assembler.  Any ideas out there?

Pick up the latest interrupt list on simtel20.  INTER490.ZIP is the
filename you are looking for.  It is what I detailed the current
PCcurses 1.5 beta release hardware detection (all in C) on.  

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Frotz