From: broehl@coulomb.uwaterloo.ca (Bernie Roehl) Subject: Re: TECH: VR386 , by D.STamp , Videomode Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 10:14:29 -0500 In article <3esq8q$1df@nntp1.u.washington.edu>, Oliver Schlueter wrote: >Whetherall the vr386_api.h offers a lot of user >routines as user_text(), shadowprint(), and pop- and error- >msgs i found no way to force the v256.vdr - driver to switch >my VGA-Card to another Mode , i tried to set the vdmode >variable to different Values, but with no further effects ... >it only function to switch between b/w and color. You may want to check out AVRIL. Version 2.00 (which should be available later this month) will allow you to "roll your own" video drivers quite easily. In the meantime, version 1.00 is on sunee.uwaterloo.ca in the pub/avril directory. Note that REND386 is no longer being actively supported. I'm not sure whether Dave is planning to do any more work on VR-386 or not; I have the impression he's moved on to other projects (in the field of cognitive psychology). I know that VR-386 hasn't been updated in over a year. >In generally is there a way to use instead of the video driver >an ordinary Borland EGAVGA.BGI ? No, and there probably won't be; the BGI drivers are *very* slow, much too slow for VR applications. With AVRIL, there's a possibility of using *both* a BGI driver and an AVRIL driver simultaneously; however, it will require a little bit of programming (in C) to do. -- Bernie Roehl University of Waterloo Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering Mail: broehl@UWaterloo.ca Voice: (519) 888-4567 x 2607 [work]