Ega/Vga: A Programmer's Reference Guide (Computing That Works)

By Bradley Dyck Kliewer

Book Overview

This new edition brings readers absolutely up-to-date on changes in Microsoft conventions for EGA/VGA graphics standards. Also includes new programming tips and techniques. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 007035099X
• ISBN13: 9780070350991
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Computing McGraw-Hill
• Length: 371 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Great reference work

Revised and Expanded - with scores of new VGA programs and now including the VESA Super VGA Standard Version 1.1 Put yourself on the cutting edge of microcomputer graphics design and applications with this state-of-the-art technical guide to the IBM® Enhanced Graphics and Virtual Graphics Array Written for software developers, engineers, and technicians involved in microcomputer graphics design and applications, this practical guide is the first and now the most comprehensive to detail the technical aspects of the IBM Enhanced Graphics Adapter and Virtual Graphics Array - the business and professional microcomputer graphics standards.Concentrating on advanced assembly language programming for the EGA and VGA, the Programmer's Reference Guide gives you tips for working around bugs in the EGA and VGA BIOS ... a complete description of EGA and VGA BIOS calls not available elsewhere ... many innovative programming tricks and techniques ... and the possible pitfalls. It presents routines for applications such as word processing, graphics programs, animation, and computer-aided design. Special features of the book are its sample algorithms for specific graphics applications and its many practical programming examples to give you "hands-on" experience. EGANGA is a definitive working tool that appeals to a wide range of PC-DOS and MSDOS programmers and everyone else interested in designing and implementing programs for the IBM Enhanced Graphics Adapter and Virtual Graphics Array.