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From: "Arthur" <arfa AT clara DOT net>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: Displaying fonts in 320x200
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 12:54:32 -0000
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> Hi, i'm relatively new to C++, and have had a hard time finding resources.
>
> I am working on a project which encorporates a 3D engine, but the rest of
> the project will require displaying relatively small fonts on the screen,
> when it is in mode 320x200, so that both the 3D stuff and the fonts can be
> displayed.

I have found that a 5x5 font does the trick nicely at 320x200. Of course,
you'll have to write your own routines to display it (but it's not hard) :-)

> If someone could tell me how to change the mode to 640x480, and
> how to write
> to the screen in that mode, that would work as well..

http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ has a couple of documents in the user guide
section on the use of VESA. Alternatively, you could try a graphics lib,
such as Allegro.

http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/

James Arthur
jaa AT arfa DOT clara DOT net
ICQ#15054819