FEEL FREE TO USE IT

If you want it: Mail to:

michaelkn...@nol.at
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ANNOUNCE:

G r a p h i X  v6.00b
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former RGB386-Library

2D-Graphics-Library for Borland Pascal 7.0 (DPMI-Protected-Mode)

Requirements:
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- Borland Pascal 7.0 (not Turbo Pascal 7.0)
- Computer
 - ideal ......... Pentium MMX/AMD K6, VESA 2.0 compatible
PCI-graphics-card
 - minimal ....... 386SX-16Mhz, 2MB RAM, 256KB-ISA-graphics-card which
manages 640x400x256 colors with a VESA 1.2 driver
 - good .......... 486DX-33Mhz, 8MB RAM, 1024KB-VLB-graphics-card
(hicolor-DAC) with VESA 2.0 driver
 - better ........ 486DX2-66Mhz, 16MB RAM, 2048KB-PCI-graphics-card
(truecolor-DAC) with VESA 2.0 compatible
 - more better ... Pentium-100Mhz, 32MB RAM, 4096KB-PCI-graphics-card
(truecolor-DAC), VESA 2.0 compatible
 - best .......... Pentium II/AMD K6, 64MB RAM,
8192KB-AGP-graphics-card, VESA 2.0 compatible
 - dream ......... Intel Octium VIII-1500MHz, 2GB RAM,
64MB-super-ultra-AGP-pro-graphics-card (64bit-color), VESA 4.5
compatible
 * of course, it will run on Cyrix, IDT and UMC processors too

Features:
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Overview:
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- supported resolutions:
 - 320x200
 - 320x240
 - 400x300
 - 512x384
 - 512x480
 - 640x350
 - 640x400
 - 640x480
 - 800x600
 - 1024x768
 - 1152x864
 - 1280x1024
 - 1600x1200

- supported color modes
 - 8bit (fake RGB 6*6*6)
 - 15bit (5:5:5)
 - 16bit (5:6:5)
 - 24bit (8:8:8)
 - 32bit (8:8:8)

- supported standards/hardware
 - VESA (1.2, 2.0): bankswitching, LFB
 - ARK-Chips: bankswitching, LFB
 - Matrox-Chips (2064W, 2164W, 1064SG): bankswitching, LFB,
hardware-acceleration
 - S3-Chips: bankswitching, LFB, hardware-acceleration (S3 Vision only
!!!, I hope, S3 will accept my developer-registration now, it's the
second try... :-(((, Matrox was nicer... :-))) )
 - SiS-Chips: bankswitching, LFB
 - Trident-Chips: bankswitching, LFB
 - Tseng-Chips (ET4000-Chips): bankswitching, LFB
 * Im not sure, if it works on ARK, SiS or Tseng Chips

- supported instruction sets
 - 386-instruction set
 - MMX-instruction set is used on MMX-capable-processors (Pentium MMX,
Pentium II, AMD K6, AMD K6-2, ...)

- current MMX graphics functions:
 - lineH
 - bar
 - triangle
 - moverect
 - putimage
 * some other functions are faster, because they use them

- current hardware accelerated graphics functions:
 - line (Matrox, S3)
 - lineH (Matrox, S3)
 - bar (Matrox, S3)
 - barXOR (S3)
 - triangle (Matrox)
 - moverect (Matrox, S3)
 * some other functions are faster, because they use them

- successfully tested on:
 - Matrox Millenium (2064W), 4096KB, PCI
 - S3 Vision864, 2048KB, VLB
 - S3 ViRGE/DX, 4096KB, PCI
 - Trident 9000i, 512KB, ISA
 - Trident 9440AGi, 1024KB, VLB
 * these are the chips, which I know it works on

Initialising Functions:
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InitGraphix ......... initializes the graphics-library
InitGraphixGrafik ... text-window for graphics-mode selection

Drawing primitives:
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- putpixel .......... draws a pixel
- line .............. draws a line
- lineH ............. draws a horizontal line
- rectangle ......... draws a rectangle
- bar ............... draws a filled rectangle
- barXOR ............ draws a filled rectangle with background XOR
color
- circle ............ draws a circle
- circlefill ........ draws a filled circle
- ellipsefill ....... draws a filled ellipse

Image functions:
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- moverect .......... moves a rectangular area (VRAM-->VRAM)
- getimage .......... saves an image in memory (VRAM-->RAM)
- putimage .......... displays an image (RAM-->VRAM)
- putimageHG ........ displays a transparent image (RAM-->VRAM)
- zoomimage ......... scales and displays an image (RAM-->VRAM)
- zoomimageHG ....... scales and displays a transparent image
(RAM-->VRAM)
- createimage ....... allocates space in memory for an image
(RAM-->VRAM)
- removeimage ....... removes an image from memory
- LoadImageBMP ...... loads a BMP-File (supported formats: 1, 4, 8,
24bit)
- LoadImageGIF ...... loads a GIF-File (supported formats: 1, 4, 8 bit)
- LoadImagePCX ...... loads a PCX-File (supported formats: 1, 8, 8-grey,
24bit)
- LoadImageTGA ...... loads a TGA-File (supported formats: 8, 16, 24bit,
uncompressed and compressed)

* All images are processed using 32bit-Segments

Font functions:
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- LoadFont .......... loads a font (Windows-FNT-File)
- RemoveFont ........ removes a font from memory
- outtext ........... displays formatted text (#10=next line, #13=return
to first position)
- charheight ........ returns charheight (heigth of one line)
- textheight ........ returns height of a formatted text

* Upto 255 fonts can be loaded at one time