From: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: 640 x 400
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 19:31:31 -0300
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Jorge Bruno S. S. Morgado wrote:

> Mode 640x400x256, is an SVGA mode, so, is address varies from card to
> card, but using the VESA extensions you should be able to get to it,
> using the mode number 100h:
> [snip]
> Howhever, this mode has an advantage over the other SVGA modes, it
> requires no bank switching, so drawing a pixel on it, its just like
> drawing a pixel in mode X (off course that the dimensions are not
> equal).

    Are you sure?  I haven't tried accessing it like XMode, but it can also be
accessed by normal bank-switchingl.  And I would think that using the VESA
bank-switch would not be a dis-advantage.  In PMode, a VESA switch is slower,
but there is only one border instead of 1000's.  To blit a bit-map onto any
portion of the screen I'd only have to do 1 switch instead of (at least) 4.
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