Basic graphics question

[Sean Malloy]

In article <49896 at iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> rschmidt at silver.ucs.indiana.edu (roy schmidt) writes:
>In article <1990Jul5.141907.29239 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jmd21132 at uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jackle) writes:
>>   I just started to explore the C language, and there is one question I can't
>>find an answer to.  I would like to create some graphics on IBM PC in either
>>VGA or MCGA modes, but unfortunately I'm missing *.BGI drivers.  Can someone,

>You gotta read all the instructions, J.  Borland tells you to use the
>INSTALL program for a good reason.  Those *.BGI drivers are buried in
>some of the compressed files on your distribution disks.  You cannot
>install TURBO C 2.0 just by using COPY *.*.  

That's not entirely true. The EGAVGA.BGI file does get unpacked when
you use the INSTALL program, but that only accesses the 16-color (or
less) modes of the VGA. To use the 320x200x256 mode for the VGA/MCGA,
you need the VGA256.BGI driver, which isn't part of the package. It
is, however, available by anonymous ftp as PD1:<MSDOS.BORLAND>BGVGA256.ARC
at SIMTEL20. 


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