mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) (11/03/90)
<<I would have used mail, but a new OS version ruined our mailer>> In article <12901@chaph.usc.edu> kjh@aludra.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) writes: >Help. I need to know how to program the EGA video hardware directly. > >I am pretty sure that it should be possible to disable video refresh on >both EGA and VGA, but I can't find the information on how to do it. >(The BIOS does provide a mechanism to do this for VGA, but I can't use >it.) > IBM sells (or they used to - they seem to be trying to stop telling people how things work) hardware reference manuals. I have the VGA one in my lap. Other companies also sell descriptions of their stuff - I have one from Video 7 that describes their extensions as well as the standard VGA stuff. This latter is still available for a reasonable amount - maybe $35. Good luck figuring out how to do what you want to from this information. Doug McDonald