dhinds@portia.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds) (11/20/89)
I want to write a BGI file to support a set of "Super VGA" modes. It
doesn't seem that Borland distributes the source for the BGI files with
any of their packages. Is it available anywhere? I would prefer to get
the source for Borland's files, but could live with the specifications
for writing a BGI file from scratch.
On a different topic, I am curious about the differences between
16-bit and 8-bit VGA cards. In graphics modes, it seems that memory
is unavoidably organized into bytes, and that the extra bus width will
have zero effect. The graphics processor's mask registers, and all
the internal arithmetic units, accept only 8 bits of host data, right?
- David Hinds
dhinds@portia.stanford.edudash@legs.legs (Darrell Shively) (11/22/89)
in article <6834@portia.Stanford.EDU>, dhinds@portia.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds) says: [...] > doesn't seem that Borland distributes the source for the BGI files with > any of their packages. Is it available anywhere? [...] > - David Hinds > dhinds@portia.stanford.edu Good luck. I contacted Borland a few years ago when the Turbo-C .BGI interface first started shipping. I wanted to generate a custom .BGI to support some enhanced graphics modes. They told me the specs on .BGI's were unavailable to the public for the forseeable future. -- Darrell M. Shively II (dash) uucp: {ccicpg,felix}!legs!dash AST Research Inc. Dept 660 MS OnLine: MS05455 2722 Michelson Drive Voice: (714) 756-7626 Irvine, CA 92715-1603 Fax: (714) 476-3879
rmartin@ai.toronto.edu (Robert Martin) (11/24/89)
A lot of info is available from Borland on grape.clarkson.edu for anonymous ftp, including the BGI graphics formats, and a stroke font editor (that doesn't save fonts properly). I haven't looked closely at the BGI material, but it seems to be what you are looking for. -- --- Robert Martin University of Toronto rmartin@ai.toronto.edu Computer Science AI Vision Group ---