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Re: camllight graphics and video card S3 trio 64V+, etc.
- Xavier Leroy
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| From: | Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@i...> |
| Subject: | Re: camllight graphics and video card S3 trio 64V+, etc. |
> 1. I have a video card "S3 trio 64 V+ PCI" and there seems to be no > driver for this > card in order to use the graphics library of camllight 0.71 under DOS. > Is it possible to get it somewhere ? Or is there any "standard" SVGA > driver which can be used with this card ? You're probably talking about release 0.7 or earlier. You should try VESA_S3.GRN first, which seems to be a "generic" S3 driver. If this fails, try other drivers for cards that have S3 chips in them, such as STEALTH.GRN and F1280.GRN This said, graphics under MSDOS are a mess, and you're strongly encouraged to do graphics under the Windows version of Caml Light 0.71. At least, Windows takes care of the graphics drivers. > 2. Is the 256 colors limitation of the graphics library inherent to > this library, or is it possible to find drivers for more than 256 > colors (for 24 bits video cards for instance) ? The graphics code for 0.7 was built on top of the CBGRX library for DJGPP version 1, and I don't think this library can handle more than 256 colors. (This is code I wrote almost five years ago, so I can be wrong.) For 0.71, Caml Light will happily let you access all colors that Windows provides. - Xavier Leroy