From: "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <moscoop AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com>
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Subject: Re: StdVGA mode 12 (640x480x16) help need
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 12:08:36 -0500
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Tihomir Heidelberg wrote:

> When drawing directly to screen I get only 7fps on my Celeron 400 with AGP.
> On 386 notebook I get 1fps :(
>
> Anyone can give me a documentation, tutorial or note how to write
> in memory to draw on screen in mode 12 ?
> (Like mode 13 320x200x256 use 0xa000000).

    Well, there's a reason why nobody uses that mode, it sux.  It uses
bit-planes to draw pixels (each bit of a pixel exists in a different location
in memory), so drawing stuff is slow.

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(\/) Rolf Campbell (\/)