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From: dmillar@monsoon.Berkeley.EDU (Derek Millar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: VGA programming
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.202319.16270@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 14 Jun 91 20:23:19 GMT
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In article <1991Jun14.082056.7579@cavebbs.gen.nz> frank@cavebbs.gen.nz (Frank van der Hulst) writes:
>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.
>
He did.  The title is _Power Graphics Programming_ , published by Que, and it
is basically a collection of his columns from "Programmer's Journal",
including the one you mentioned.  I couldn't find anything about programming
DAC registers in it, though.

        -Derek Millar