Re: Seeing the Vesa mode on start-up/changeing same.

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Ray St. Marie <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Nick, All!
> It's Ray... go to bottom :-)
>
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Nick Maroudas
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Quoting "Ray St. Marie" <[email protected]>:
>>
>>>... " Hi colorForth fans
>>>... " Ray here...
>>>... "
>>>... " I've been offline a couple of weeks... recent
>>>... " blog entry about that at
>>>... " http://colorforth.net
>>>... " I've been busy in my offline time working with a
>>>... " [snip]
>>>... " ... few of  the problems that I've seen pop up
>>>... " recently in this
>>>... " mailinglist. .... Also, I've created
>>>... " a couple words to aid
>>>... " in the display debugging process. Nick, I was
>>>... " thinking of you. :-)
>>>... "
>>>... "
>>
>> Nick here,
>>
>> Dear Ray,
>>
>> Thanks for thinking of me, though I've been off line
>> even longer than you; and missed a lot of good stuff -
>> including the CF Community website above.
>>
>> Reason for absence was to prepare a ms and submit it
>> for
>> publication, on the hex scale of music notation for
>> which I've been using CF lately.  I mailed you a floppy
>> with my CF program a few months ago, now the ms is
>> available for anyone who might be interested in a hex
>> alternative to the usual MIDI scale in logarithmic
>> cents.
>>
>> Your work on vesa and LOGO display is certainly of
>> interest to the "Play and Display" part of my program.
>>
>> So is Jason's on how to set a pixel.  Should lead to
>> even smaller lag between displaying the score and
>> playing the notes.
>>
>> Will need some time to absorb all this new stuff:  at
>> my
>> age short term memory becomes as volatile as RAM - and
>> much, much slower to refresh.
>>
>> Caritas,
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> Also Quoting:  Wed, 28 May 2008 14:01:23 +0100
>> Jason Kemp <[email protected]>
>> Re: [colorforth] Setting a pixel on the screen
>>
>> ****************************
>>
>> A better world is not only possible but on the way.  On
>> a quiet day you can hear her breathing.  - Arundhati
>> Roy
>>
>
> I've been annotating a listing of the MASM generated colorForth 1 that
> I did form the Pentium 4. I got to the part about int 10 -- the
> display set-up interrupt and had a thought.
>
> The monitor that I had seemed to recreate Nick's display problem is
> EGA/XGA. Nick, please check yours as well. In the case that it is, we
> will need to enter a new display mode setter other than 0x4F02H, which
> is specifically VBE, the Vesa superVGA setting setter. VESA monitors
> seem to be set to 0x117h, 0x118h, and 0x123h successfully.
>
> I don't believe anyone has tested the EGA/XGA settings.
> Wikipedia has this to say: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XGA
>
> My projects are many and I keep flipping from one to the next. I do
> have an XGA monitor, and if we can get some concensus on how to
> preceed here, I'll try out some of those ideas.
>
> BUT, I suggest a VESA-VBE superVGA monitor. Used, they are cheap. Bet
> you can find one in a friends garage if not your own. :-)
>
> Getting the superVGA means not having to worry about hacking the
> already well tested code.
>
> Much luck!
> Ray
> --
> Raymond St. Marie ii,
> http://colorforthray.info
> http://colorForth.net
> http://ForthWorks.com/c4th
>

The blog ( http://colorforth.net ) now has the beginings of the source
breakdown that I've been promising. I was able to find that xga
monitors have a 'set mode' of 4e03, but I'm still not finding the
selection number for 1024x768x256 colors. IF you know it or know where
I can find it... :-)


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