simulate VGA on HERC using BGI driver

Graham Wheeler gram at uctcs.cs.uct.ac.za
Fri Jun 21 22:33:17 AEST 1991


In <20401 at rsiatl.Dixie.Com> eeh at Dixie.Com (Ed Howland) writes:

>SRGXNBS at grace.dsir.govt.nz writes:

>>I've got a cad program I use at work which requires EGA/VGA, I'd also
>>like to run it at home but only have a herc screen. The program uses
>>a BGI driver .. I was wondering if it would be possible to "fake" VGA
>>by writing an EGA/VGA simulation .BGI driver for a hercules screen? It

Maybe as a quick fix (with no colour fixing, unfortunately) you can just rename
the herc.bgi file to egavga.bgi?
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