OpenEuphoria

Re: Please help a newbie with SVGA ... :)

• Posted by bonn ortloff <kc7yrh at HOTMAIL.COM> Sep 09, 1998
• 574 views

>Date:         Mon, 7 Sep 1998 13:49:44 PDT
>Reply-To:     Euphoria Programming for MS-DOS
<EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
>From:         Darren Hewer <darren_hewer at HOTMAIL.COM>
>Subject:      Please help a newbie with SVGA ... :)
>To:           EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
>
>Hiyas ... I'm new to Euphoria, but not to programming in general ...
>that is, I have limited experience with some other programming
languages
>...
>
>Anywho. My problem is with the SVGA modes, 256+. I can't get any of
them
>to work! Whenever I try to use them, ie with graphics_mode(), I can
only
>use the top 1/3 of the screen ... the rest is unaccessable. I have no
>idea why this is ... I can use SVGA modes on various other things, like
>games, so I know it isn't my graphics card. It's a ATI Rage II with
>2megs of RAM, if that matters.
>
>I tried using Univbe VESA and use_vesa(), but that gave me an illegal
>operation under Win95 ... so I rebooted to DOS mode, and it locked up
my
>system rather soundly, so I had to reboot.
>
>Any ideas? I'd rather not be stuck using mode19 for everything. :)
(That
>works fine, btw, as do every other graphics mode.)
>
>Thanks. Bye! :)

... Methinx you have to use another 256-color mode.???

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