From:	alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Alaric B. Williams)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: HighColor graphics?
Date:	Tue, 31 Dec 1996 18:08:09 GMT
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Kevin Ivarsen <ivarneli AT avalon DOT net> wrote:

>Is there a library that has 32K color video modes? Is there any way to 
>have 320X200X32K? (It's a listed mode in my video card manual, but I'm 
>not sure if it's pretty standard or limited to a few vid cards like 
>mine). Thanks.

32k, 64k, and 16m modes are all covered by the VESA standard; VESA
compliant graphics code should work on all cards that use them. My
Cirrus Logic card does a nice 800x600x64k mode that's great for
Windows... to program these things, pick up a copy of the VESA spec
from somewhere (it's probably on x2ftp... I don't have a URL handy, so
if anyone has trouble finding it, mail me :-)

I'm not sure which DJGPP graphics libraries support it. Support for
these things has been generally thin on the ground so far! Perhaps I
should write a truecolour graphics library???

ABW
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