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From: brucef AT central DOT co DOT nz (Bruce Foley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Two really stupid questions re: graphics.
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 01:01:33 GMT
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richard725 AT denver DOT email DOT com (Richard Adams) wrote:

>1) Does anyone know of a SIMPLE way to set up VGA mode 13h, and how to
>set up a VESA 1.2 truecolor video mode? (and of course how to get back
>to text). I know how to do this in Forth and assembly language in real
>mode, but djgpp and it's protected mode has me stumped (wonderful as
>protected mode is...:).
> 
>2) Does anyone know of a simple way to plot a pixel in the VESA 1.2
>and VGA's mode 13h? Again, I could do this in assembly language and
>forth in real mode, but not in djgpp/protected mode. I know that for
>Vesa modes there's stuff like bank switching involved.
> 

Hi.  Take a look at the following Web Page.

It has 2 very useful tutorials on getting started with AT&T style
assembler and Graphics programming with DJGPP:

http://remus.rutgers.edu/~avly/djgpp.html

Regards, Bruce