From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
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Subject: Re: [Q] vga & fast rectangle drawing
Date: 21 Aug 1997 07:31:40 GMT
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Egg brains (eggbrains AT aol DOT com) writes:
> this sounds stupid, but is their away (w/o a lib) to draw fast rectangles
> in vga w/o plotting all the pixels manually? (ie: is there an interupt or
> bio call or something?)

Yeah. You can fill each line with rep stosb in asm, with memset in C or
C++ (just an inline wrapper for rep stosb I think).

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