paul@frcs.UUCP (Paul Nash) (03/11/91)
First, my apologies for posting a strictly compiler-dependant question to various general groups. I didn't want to wait for `comp.lang.turboc' :-) Has anyone out there heard of (or better still, got) a Borland BGI driver for a VGA card in 320 * 200 * 256 colour mode? If so, could you mail me a copy? I am using Turbo C 2.0, which only supports various 16 colour modes on VGA, and must have 256 colours. If I can't do it with BGI, I will have to change to Microsoft, which _does_ do mode 13, but doesn't have the fancy text support (which I need). I would also like to know whether there are any fonts other than the standard `simplex' and `sans_serif' available. The `gothic' is totally useless, but I would like to lay my hands on an italic font for BGI. Does anyone know how to create BGI fonts, so that I can roll my own? For answers to any of these, many thanks. paul ---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=--- Paul Nash Free Range Computer Systems cc paul@frcs.UUCP ...!uunet!m2xenix!frcs!paul
mcastle@mcs213e.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle {Nexus}) (03/13/91)
BGIDRIV.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.BORLAND> Borland BGI Toolkit driver/docs (UPDATE)
BGIFONT.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.BORLAND> BGI Font Editor, develop your own fonts
BGIFONTS.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.BORLAND> Set of BGI fonts, full IBM character set
BGIHERC.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.BORLAND> Hercules Monochrome and Incolor BGI driver
BGVGA256.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.BORLAND> BGI driver for VGA 320x200 256 color mode
ET3BGI.ZIP PD1:<MSDOS.BORLAND> BGI driver for Tseng ET3000 SVGA cards
SVGABG15.ZIP PD1:<MSDOS.BORLAND> Multi-mode SuperVGA BGI driver
These are all available at:
New Mexico: simtel20.army.mil (26.2.0.74) in the directory listed above
(PDx:<MSDOS.xxxxx> )
Missouri: wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) in mirrors/msdos/xxxxx
Australia: sol.deakin.oz.au (128.184.1.1) in pub/PC/simtel-20/xxxxx
There are several mail servers that will process the ftp commands for those who
have access to e-mail, but not FTP. Addresses are:
In North America (Simtel20 access only):
LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU North Dakota State University.
LISTSERV@VM.ECS.RPI.EDU Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
In the body of the mail have the command:
GET PDGET HELP PCSERV-L
Also (any ftp site):
BITFTP@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU
In the body of the mail have the command:
HELP
Trickle servers (Simtel20 access only):
In Denmark: TRICKLE@DKTC11
In Turkey: TRICKLE@TREARN
In Italy: TRICKLE@IMIPOLI
In Belgium: TRICKLE@BANUFS11
In Austria: TRICKLE@AWIWUW11
In Germany: TRICKLE@DTUZDV1
In Spain: TRICKLE@EB0UB011
In Israel: TRICKLE@TAUNIVM
In Netherlands: TRICKLE@HEARN
France: TRICKLE@FRMOP11
Germany: TRICKLE@DB0FUB11
Chile: TRICKLE@USACHVM1
Not sure: TRICKLE@DS0RUS1I
(note: these are EARN/BITNET style addresses. Internet users should
use BITNET domain addresses such as TRICKLE@TREAN.BITNET)
In the body of the mail have the command:
/HELP
If anyone knows of any other mirrored archives of Simtel20, please let me
know and I'll add them to this generic response.
Thanks.
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all the time, or not work at all, and be right twice a day. | system. :->mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski) (03/13/91)
In article <415@frcs.UUCP>, paul@frcs.UUCP (Paul Nash) writes:
%% Has anyone out there heard of (or better still, got) a Borland BGI driver
%% for a VGA card in 320 * 200 * 256 colour mode? If so, could you mail me
%% a copy? I am using Turbo C 2.0, which only supports various 16 colour
%% modes on VGA, and must have 256 colours. If I can't do it with BGI, I
%% will have to change to Microsoft, which _does_ do mode 13, but doesn't
%% have the fancy text support (which I need).
Look into the <MSDOS.BORLAND> directory on Simtel20 or into
/mirrors/msdos/borland on wuarchive.wustl.edu. There are two
interesting files: bgvga256.arc and svgabg17.zip.
Ah, you are on a UUCP site...
%% I would also like to know whether there are any fonts other than the
%% standard `simplex' and `sans_serif' available. The `gothic' is totally
%% useless, but I would like to lay my hands on an italic font for BGI.
%% Does anyone know how to create BGI fonts, so that I can roll my own?
You can use fonts from Borland Quattro and maybe also Borland Paradox.
It has been some time since I experimented with that, but I think you
only need to put them together with the other and select another font
number...
For a font editor, look at bgifont.zip and bgifonts.arc in the
previously cited directories.
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Adam Mirowski, mir@chorus.fr (FRANCE), tel. +33 (1) 30-64-82-00 or 74
Chorus systemes, 6, av.Gustave Eiffel, 78182 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines CEDEXjoe@proto.com (Joe Huffman) (03/14/91)
paul@frcs.UUCP (Paul Nash) writes: >Has anyone out there heard of (or better still, got) a Borland BGI driver >for a VGA card in 320 * 200 * 256 colour mode? If so, could you mail me >a copy? I am using Turbo C 2.0, which only supports various 16 colour >modes on VGA, and must have 256 colours. If I can't do it with BGI, I >will have to change to Microsoft, which _does_ do mode 13, but doesn't >have the fancy text support (which I need). You don't HAVE to change to Microsoft-- The Zortech C/C++ graphics library (Flash Graphics) also supports mode 13. User defined fonts are also supported. Another nice feature is that the graphics library exists for multiple platforms -- including: MSDOS, OS/2, SCO UNIX, Rational System's 286 DOS extender, and PharLap's 386 DOS extender. Source code is available (~$200.00) and email support is available (fg@proto.com). --- Zortech mailing list: send email to 'ztc-list-request@uunet.uu.net' with: Add: your-user-name@your-machine-name In the body of the message. --- Send Zortech bug reports to 'zortech-bugs@zortech.com' Send requests for educational discounts to 'zortech-ed@zortech.com' --- Zortech is my major source of income. Statements about them or their competitors cannot be totally without bias. -- joe@proto.com
paul@frcs.UUCP (Paul Nash) (03/19/91)
Thus spake joe@proto.com (Joe Huffman): > paul@frcs.UUCP (Paul Nash) writes: > > [ ... ] If I can't do it with BGI, I > >will have to change to Microsoft > You don't HAVE to change to Microsoft-- The Zortech C/C++ graphics library > (Flash Graphics) also supports mode 13. I already have three versions of Zortech (1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 Developers) and am very impressed with it. However, in this case I am using CTASK to multi-task under DOS, and while I think that Walter Bright's approach to interrupts is cleaner than the ``interrupt'' keyword, I have not got around to getting CTASK to work with Zortech. It does work with both Turbo and MS right out of the box, so I am sticking with them for now. ---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=--- Paul Nash Free Range Computer Systems cc paul@frcs.UUCP ...!uunet!m2xenix!frcs!paul