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From: roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Thomas Roell)
Subject: Re: VGA books
In-Reply-To: dp@adagio.chorus.fr's message of 7 May 91 12: 58:41 GMT
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Date: Mon, 13 May 1991 10:10:23 GMT
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>Programmer's Guide to the EGA and VGA Cards', second edition,
>by Richard Ferraro, published by Addison-Wesley.
>
>is the champion in this category. I have bought the book and I'm very pleased
>with it.

You are right, it's propably the best available. But don't forget that this
bug has a LOT of HORRIBLE bugs that make some examples and chapters about
special chipsets almost useless. If you tend to go deeper into programming
a special chipset, there is no way around getting the hardware doc from
the manufactorer directly.

List of the most bad typos/bugs:

	PVGA1A/WD90Cxx:	Banking described two times. One time the meaning of
			PRA & PRB was exchanged and DEAD WRONG.

	TVGA8900:	Banking in the 64k mode completely wrong.

- Thomas
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