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From: walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: video detection
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Date: 13 May 91 20:21:03 GMT
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	Can anyone give me reliable "low-level" (bios or hardware level only)
methods for telling apart MDA, HERCULES, CGA, EGA, MCGA, and VGA adapters.
I can tell the memory of the EGA cards by a bios call, and another bios
call that is availiable on only MCGA and VGA tells what the current adapter
is (for multiple adapters), and I may be able to tell them apart from it.
Maybe I need to get a book specializing in video programming... Suggestions?
Email prefered.

					Todd Walk
					walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu