From: gregorio AT jet DOT es (Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz)
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Subject: Text Routines in DJGPP
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 13:12:55 GMT
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>Yes, I'm one of those chicken to learn ASM (It's just me..) and I'd love
>to find some good routines to plot text in colors and whatnot on the
>screen...

I wrote some functions to do that, but they are totally in C. However,
you can read them and port them yourself to ASM, since it's just
writting to the screen or memory buffer.

>Anyone familiar with QBASIC and PowerBASIC knows that the routines are
>extremely fast, you could fill the screen up with text chars one by one
>and you wouldn't tell.  Functions like cprintf() are too slow and
>maybe it's something I'm doing but it should be optimized... how big
>of a difference does the -O2 -O3 -O make to these routines?
I don't think there's much of a difference. I tried to draw a screen
with cprintf() and compiled with the PGCC, I still saw how the screen
was drew. Then, I made the same with my routines and you didn't notice
on a 386.

You can get those from my homepage at:
http://web.jet.es/gregorio/gogosoftware

Go to the download area and you will notice the lib is still beta...
but already wrote a program using it. Justs need docs and examples to
release it as 1.0

>Any help/sources are appriciated... please e-mail aswell as I may
>miss the message here 'cause I'm not a regular reader, yet,...
I encourage you to be regular.

- G.A. Hankiewicz - ICQ 255289 - gregorio AT jet DOT es
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