Re: [Freedos-devel] VGA/VESA vblank interrupt?

2018-06-30 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel
[This page at OSDev](https://wiki.osdev.org/VGA_Hardware) has lots of details on the VGA system. I believe you can poll the registers to determine the blanking period; I don't recall VGA supporting interrupts for this. But I could be wrong. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure

[Freedos-devel] VGA/VESA vblank interrupt?

2018-06-30 Thread David McMackins
I'm new to graphics programming on DOS. My experience programming graphics on PC is on modern systems where I can use a library that handles all low-level calls for me. I know about Allegro, but it's kind of fat and I don't think it supports 16-bit. Anyway, I'm figuring out VGA and VESA graphics p