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to: SCOTT MCNAY
from: FERNANDO ARIEL GONT
date: 1998-02-03 10:20:00
subject: Video ports tutorials

Hullo Scott McNay, hope you are having a nice day!!
23-Jan-98 19:41:50, Scott McNay wrote to Fernando Ariel Gont
          Subject: Video ports tutorials
 FAG>> Well, I tried to start programming tha video card ports, but the
 FAG>> book I have doesn't cover them very well...
 SM> There are a number of inch-and-a-half thick books that do nothing
 SM> but discuss that subject
I'll have to try them.. :)
 SM> The problem is, each video card is different.  I'd suggest that
 SM> your first stop be the VESA standard (www.vesa.com, I think), and
 SM> your second stop be UniVBE (www.scitech.com, I think; do a web
 SM> search for UniVBE or UniVESA).  You can probably find UNIVBE or
What's the difference betwen UniVBE and VESA?
 SM> UNIVESA on a BBS or shareware CD-ROM in your area.  I once got
 SM> some files from the SciTech FTP site via email, but I don't have
 SM> the instructions for that anymore
The fact is that I have already got a VESA 2.0 reference pdf, but it's only
a reference... I need a paper that teaches how to use VESA function
features, and what to use them for.....
Bye! :)
 -=> Yours sincerely, Fernando Ariel Gont <=-
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