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From: platt@emory.uucp (Dan Platt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Question about turboC 1.5
Message-ID: <2515@emory.uucp>
Date: 28 Jan 88 01:56:41 GMT
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Reply-To: platt@emory.UUCP (Dan Platt)
Organization: Emory University
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In article <2715@cup.portal.com> Randomizer@cup.portal.com writes:
>Can anyone who has turbo C 1.5 tell me if turboC 1.5 has *FAST* video
>writes like turbo pascal 4.0?
>Does it write to the screen very fast?
>

Turbo C 1.5 does write directly to the screen (*FAST* video by any other
name), but also will allow use of ROM routines if your machine is not
completely IBM compatible.

At present there is another problem with the graphics package that runs like
this:

The various video cards are accesed by drivers loaded either at run time,
or by some effort and conversions, linked at link time.  If you have
1) malloc'ed too much memory (about 64k in this case) or try to load all
the drivers (for all screens and fonts -- YES - it comes with a set of
very nice fonts that will write horizontally and vertically!) your program
will fail.  Seems there is a problem with the routine that they allocate
memory for the routines to be placed.  They've promised that a patch is
forthcomming...

Dan