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From: waynet@kit.CNA.TEK.COM (Wayne Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: VGA Programming References
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Date: 28 Aug 90 17:52:11 GMT
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In article <1990Aug28.115359.6784@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> draper@cpsin1.uucp (Patrick J Draper) writes:
>	Can anybody help me out? I'm looking for programming references
>for the VGA card manufactured by anybody at all (as long as it is IBM
>compatible). 
>
>I need to know how to program all the registers, how all the modes use
>display memory, how to flip pages, etc.
>

I'd recommend the following books (in particular, the Wilton book):

Title:       Programmer's Guide to PC & PS/2 Video Systems
Author:      Wilton, Richard
Publisher:   Microsoft Press
Place_of_pub: Redmond, WA
Date_of_pub: 1987

Title:       EGA/VGA, a programmer's reference guide 
Author:      Kliewer, Bradley Dyck.
Publisher:   Intertext Publications : McGraw-Hill,
Place_of_pub: New York, NY 
Date_of_pub: 1988

Title:       Programmer's guide to the EGA and VGA cards
Author:      Ferraro, Richard F
Publisher:   Addison-Wesley
Place_of_pub: Reading, MA
Date_of_pub: 1988