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From: alexande@drivax.UUCP (Mark Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: VGA  (not a request for a good one)
Keywords: looking for programming information
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Date: 5 Nov 88 01:20:45 GMT
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In article <6529@xanth.cs.odu.edu> simmons@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Gregory S. Simmons) writes:
>I would >like to get some conversation going suggesting good books and
>places to get information on programming with the VGA card.

Here are two books that look pretty good, from the little bit that I've seen:

EVA/VGA    A Programmer's Reference Guide
by Bradley Dyck Kliewer
Intertext Publications/McGraw-Hill

Programmer's Guide to PC & PS/2 Video Systems
by Richard Wilton
Microsoft Press

The first book is more hardware-oriented -- useful if you're bypassing
the BIOS and writing your own drivers.

The second book has may be more than you need.  It covers CGA (barf)
and all Hercules cards, has a complete summary of all BIOS calls,
has lots of BIOS examples, and quite a few examples of applications
(how to draw lines, circles, graphics text, filled regions, etc.).
-- 
Mark Alexander	(UUCP: amdahl!drivax!alexande)
"Bob-ism: the Faith that changes to meet YOUR needs." --Bob (as heard on PHC)