BGI ran like a three-legged pregnant hippo in a mud pit, mainly because it used the INT10h functions. Pretty much everyone I know, who also started programming in the late 80s got their first taste of inline assembler and hardware programming, when we realized that you could speed up things by magnitudes by just vomiting your data straight into the A000h segment. In fact I blew up at least 3 monitors by fooling around with port-registers on my ridiculously expensive Realtek 512KB SVGA card in an attempt to initialize the weirdest 256-color modes, like 734x412 and somesuch.
On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 07:55, Bitácora de Javier Gutiérrez Chamorro (Guti) <guti.bitacoras....@gmail.com> wrote: > > I used them in the past but soon moved to SVGA386.BGI by Ullrich von > Bassewitz with are a lot of faster (https://www.von-bassewitz.de/uz/bgi.php) > > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Remitente: Robert Riebisch <r...@bttr-software.de> > Destinatario: freedos-devel mailing list <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > Fecha: domingo, 20 de diciembre de 2020, 20:02:21 > Asunto: [Freedos-devel] Jordan Hargraphix SvgaBGI goes MIT license > Archivos: <none> > --====----====----====----====----====----====----====----====----====----===-- > (To whom it may concern.) > > In April 2020 I got in touch with Jordan Hargrave, who wrote SVGA BGI > drivers for Turbo C/Turbo Pascal/Borland C++ until the mid-1990s: > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland_Graphics_Interface#Third-party_BGI_drivers> > > Jordan wrote on 19 December: > ##### > Hi Robert, > > If you are still interested in the BGI drivers, I found an old box of > disks which had my original Svga driver source on it! So I've now posted > that up to github. > It would be interesting to know if they still work!! > > https://github.com/jharg93/SvgaBGI > > Enjoy! > --jordan hargrave > ##### > > According to the Wikipedia article, which I updated accordingly, there > are bugs in the drivers, which can be fixed now. > > Cheers, > Robert > -- > +++ BTTR Software +++ > Home page: https://www.bttr-software.de/ > DOS ain't dead: https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
