Mail Archives: djgpp/1992/02/14/18:29:57
>1. ModeX, while using 1 byte per pixel, still operates on a planar memory
> organization. Thus, when you write out to a single memory location you
> can theoretically write out to 4 pixels! You have to set the latches
> to know which planes should be written to.
>Is there a way around this? Can Go32/the 80386 easily be reconfigured to
>know how to write out correctly to mode x?
It's not easy to get it to work with the current libgr.a routines,
just as 16-color mode isn't easy. There's nothing stopping you from
recoding libgr.a to produce libgrX.a, though, since you can re-use the
drivers and do I/O with <pc.h>
DJ
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