From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: VGA, VESA; making DOS graphics Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: References: <8a8pmn$blp$1 AT news DOT d DOT umn DOT edu> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 34 X-Trace: /bJ8XThCzAS1ZsRNADCmgNNYzUvDbXBEDdwdPHzZj76iS9pzroq21yg4G/gXBF+ktgfMVuCwtqVw!2BUX2IbX1udZBUzp97BT+l4qfq2q60doIqfN54zz3taT7X+XgeOcxrMkNl9HqyQH8NCwCA5pugKn!zJ5Ybnw= X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 21:49:56 GMT Distribution: world Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 21:49:56 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On 9 Mar 2000 18:14:47 GMT, deisenzi AT d DOT umn DOT edu wrote: >Hello all, I have successfully written some code that uses the VGA driver >but I would like to make graphics with a higher resolution. I am using a >dinosaur (486) and it's a Compaq (no flames please). The current display >setting used by Windows is... >Compaq/ET4-W32 640X480 256 color > >Apparently some other display drivers are available because I am able to >change to these but the monitor is not displaying them properly (hazy, >triple-image). The ones that I have been trying have a resolution of 800X600, >example being the Super VGA. Then try 640x480. In 256 colors, that's considered SVGA. >I am not sure if VESA is available to me. >[snip] >Does this mean that, without a doubt, VESA is not available to me? You may be able to find a VBE/AF driver: http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/freebe/ http://www.scitechsoft.com/ Then just code your app for VBE/AF and be done with it. If you need help, look at the Allegro source. -- Damian Yerrick http://yerricde.tripod.com/ Comment on story ideas: http://home1.gte.net/frodo/quickjot.html AOL is sucks! Find out why: http://anti-aol.org/faqs/aas/ View full sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your .sig to prevent the spread of .sig viruses. http://www.mcafee.com/