From: SpankE <dingfam AT imag DOT net>
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Subject: Re: What's ModeX?
Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 18:47:44 -0700
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Gautam N. Lad wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> What's ModeX?  Is it the SVGA modes (i.e. 640x480x256, 800x600x65536,etc.)?
> 
> Thanks!
> Bye!

Heya
  To the best of my knowledge, Mode-X is a tweaked VGA mode. The most
common example is 340x200x256, which was extremly popular before the
onset of fast VESA and SVGA video cards. To use Mode-X, you can get
either XLib or Allegro 2.2, which are found at
ftp://x2ftp.oulu.fi/pub/msdos/programming/djgpp2/

  The only down side to Mode-X is that there are many restrictions of
what you can do. You can only use 256k of video memory and drawing to a
Mode-X screen is slower than regular VGA, and sometimes SVGA (on my
machine, atleast :)

Hope that was helpful,
chris

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Chris Dingwall
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