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From: danr@bcsfse.boeing.com (Dan Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: VGA (and other) border areas
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Date: 16 May 91 00:04:17 GMT
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Seems to me that Peter Norton talks about this in Programmer's Guide to the IBM
PC. I've done this myself in text mode with a screen handler that I wrote a few
years ago. It's an interrupt 10 call, I believe. But know that it really shows
up in modes with less than optimum resolution. Let's see...I think that 640x200
(graphics mode) can do it, but I could be mistaken. Setting the border color on
a CGA card (Eeeeek!) is pretty easy, but my poor eyes could never take the grainy
resolution. Setting a border color on an EGA or higher card gives a very slim 
border (at least on my Paradise-clone card) and really isn't worth fiddling with.

For what it's worth...

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