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From: frank@cavebbs.gen.nz (Frank van der Hulst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: VGA programming
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.082056.7579@cavebbs.gen.nz>
Date: 14 Jun 91 08:20:56 GMT
References: <1991Jun13.173332.536@otago.ac.nz>
Organization: The Cave MegaBBS, Public Access Usenet, Wellington, NZ
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In article <1991Jun13.173332.536@otago.ac.nz> andrew@otago.ac.nz writes:
>Anyone know how to directly program the DAC registers on the VGA without going
>via the BIOS?  All the books I have on the VGA avaid the subject like the
>pague!  They only give examples of DAC programming by calling the BIOS!

Get hold of "Programmer's Journal" from about '88 or so. There was a long
series of articles by Michael Abrash about programming VGA, including source
in assembler. I translated some to C, and now have a 320x400x256 colour x 2
page VGA mode!

I think Abrash has also written a book.


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