OpenEuphoria

Re: Additional Video Pages

• Posted by "Cuny, David" <ATB.DCUNY at HW1.CAHWNET.GOV> Mar 27, 1997
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re: Video pages

I'm under the impression that one of the unchained Mode X resolutions
actually supports 4 video screens. The problem is, you would need to write
all your own tools to use the mode, since Euphoria doesn't support it. There
is a good tutorial with C-code examples in the PC-GPE (PC Game Programmer's
Encyclopedia), an excellent freeware collection of articles on game
programming related topics. It looks like an easy enough port to Euphoria,
if you use Jacques' port writing tools.

It's also got a nice series of tutorials on Mode 13h, including one on
writing virtual screens.

If you want to get more speed, take a look at Jiri's "Aliens!" program,
which uses mem_copy() to do video moves, which is much faster than working
with sequences, but again, you would need to write your own primitives.

 -- David Cuny