martin@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Martin A Miller) (10/12/90)
Greetings, Well, I think I've exhausted all the "direct" approaches to solving my problem, so I'll try the "brute force" method. I recently found a couple of no-frills GIF viewers on the "grape" archive site in the file "gifsrc.arc". They were written by Jim Griebel and for my EGA needs I was able to hack one of them a bit to write a plain ASCII file with the actual numerical values for each pixel (0=black, 1=blue,..., 15=white) of the GIF. These programs are written in Turbo Pascal 4.0. The programs work for EGA only, so of course, now I have been asked to do the same thing with VGA. Not having any background in programming VGA graphics, I have found out that VGA is quite a different animal...(than EGA). I've sent msgs to "grape" asking for info; they don't have any..I've got Richard Wilton's book "Programmer's Guide to PC & PS/2 Video Systems" and I can't make heads or tails out it.. The purpose of this post, then, is twofold: Jim Griebel, if you're reading this, please contact me, or if anyone has any info on VGA programming ie., which registers take what values, etc.. please email. thank you.. -mm Martin A. Miller Programmer/Consultant Social Science Research Facility University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Phone: (414) 229-5314 Internet: martin@csd4.csd.uwm.edu Bitnet : martin%csd4.csd.uwm.edu@INTERBIT UUCP : uunet!martin@csd4.csd.uwm.edu