wolsheim@prls.UUCP (Evert Wolsheimer) (06/03/89)
Question : can anyone tell me if Turbo Pascal 5.x has EGA/VGA drivers ?
I need a language (preferably Pascal) that can access EGA/VGA modes....
Please post (if you think it's of general interest) or send to me directly.
Evert Wolsheimer
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You ain't much if you ain't Dutch.... :-) prls!wolsheim ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK) (06/03/89)
In article <22642@prls.UUCP> wolsheim@prls.UUCP (Evert Wolsheimer) writes: >Question : can anyone tell me if Turbo Pascal 5.x has EGA/VGA drivers ? Yes, it does. If fact Turbo Pascal uses the same driver both for EGA and VGA. This means that you cannot get more colors on VGA than you can on EGA (16) when using Turbo Pascal. Incidentally, these drivers are called bgi drivers, and they can be included in the Turbo Pascal executable, which makes such programs nicely portable. The disadvantage of the bgi drivers is that programming them correctly is far from easy. In fact, building and including the drivers in a Turbo Pascal program for the first time is a quite a daunting task, and the documentation how to do it is scattered badly in Turbo Pascal manuals and additional files. Although the system works very well once you manage the tricks, I think that in documenting this feature the otherwise excellent Borland has clearly failed. ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: vakk::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
hartung@amos.ling.ucsd.edu (Jeff Hartung) (06/04/89)
In article <22642@prls.UUCP> wolsheim@prls.UUCP (Evert Wolsheimer) writes: >Question : can anyone tell me if Turbo Pascal 5.x has EGA/VGA drivers ? >I need a language (preferably Pascal) that can access EGA/VGA modes.... Turbo Pascal 5.0 provides graphics drivers for CGA, MCGA, EGA, VGA, Hercules, AT&T 400 line, 3270 PC and IBM-8514. I've only used the CGA and Hercules drivers myself, so far. --Jeff Hartung-- Disclaimer: My opinions only, etc., etc., BLAH! BLAH! BLAH!... ARPA - hartung@amos.ucsd.edu UUCP - ucsd!amos.ucsd.edu!hartung
msschaa@cs.vu.nl (Schaap MS) (06/07/89)
In article <22642@prls.UUCP> wolsheim@prls.UUCP (Evert Wolsheimer) writes: >Question : can anyone tell me if Turbo Pascal 5.x has EGA/VGA drivers ? Yes/ja. Turbo Pascal 5.x has EGA/VGA drivers. But, it is not possible to use the 256 color mode. But recently, in the newsgroup comp.graphics, there has been posted a new driver that does use them. groeten, Michael
leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) (06/13/89)
In article <2708@solo10.cs.vu.nl> msschaa@cs.vu.nl (Schaap MS) writes: <In article <22642@prls.UUCP> wolsheim@prls.UUCP (Evert Wolsheimer) writes: <>Question : can anyone tell me if Turbo Pascal 5.x has EGA/VGA drivers ? < <Yes/ja. < <Turbo Pascal 5.x has EGA/VGA drivers. <But, it is not possible to use the 256 color mode. < <But recently, in the newsgroup comp.graphics, there has been <posted a new driver that does use them. The recently released (free) BGI toolkit include a driver for 256 color mode. -- Leonard Erickson ...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard CIS: [70465,203] "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." -- Solomon Short