more deterministic display

["daniel sheltraw" <l5gibson@hotmail.com>]

Kev

Thanks for the reply. I think that Abrash's book is probably to out of date. 
I believe I have the other book you refered to but it was of no help on this 
matter. Do you have any other suggestions (articles, mailing lists, friendly 
experts email address).

Thanks again. I know this is a run-of-the-mill question.

Daniel Sheltraw


>From: Kevin Shea <kevin.shea@d-cubed.co.uk>
>Reply-To: gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com
>To: gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com
>Subject: Re: deterministic display
>Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:11:29 +0100
>
>Don't know, but check out Michael Abrash's books - he describes VGA
>programming pretty thoroughly. There's also a book out there called
>"Programming EGA/VGA" or something like that.
>
>Kev
>
>daniel sheltraw wrote:
> >
> > Hello GPers
> >
> > I hope this is an appropriate place to post this question. I would like
> > to write an image to video memory and have it displayed at a time I have
> > control over rather than waiting for the next refresh of the screen. 
>Does
> > anyone know how to control the VGA to do this. I imagine it would be the
> > sequencer portion of the chipset that might need a tweak. Would some 
>sort of
> > reset then set of the sequencer work?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Daniel
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