Graphics information and theory
| CLIPPING.ZIP | Polygon clipping |
| DOS32VBE.ZIP | DOS32VBE - Small doc on using SVGA with DOS32. |
| FRUSTUM.ZIP | Frustum Clipping Is a vital, yet neglected subject. I haven't read any documents on it yet on the web. So, now I will show you my findings on the subject, which should prove to be enough for you to implement frustum clipping in your engine. |
| GRAPHICS.ZIP | Explanation of VGA and VESA programming using c/c++ |
| MADVDOC.ZIP | Document about some basic vector things with Asm src |
| MCGA_TUT.ZIP | Mcga graphics tutorial |
| MODEX.ZIP | Introduction to mode x |
| NURBS.ZIP | About Nonuniform Rational B-Splines - NURBS |
| OTMPOLY.ZIP | Complete HOW TO of polygons |
| POLYCOLL.ZIP | How to do Collision point of two non-rotating polygons |
| TB_XMODE.ZIP | A trainer/tutor to the 320x400x256 xmode. SOurce code displaying a picture in this mode is included. |
| TWEAKDOX.ZIP | Tweaking the videomode 13h into modex |
| UNIFAQ.ZIP | Unisys lzw patent frequently asked questions |
| WATER.ZIP | Water Water is a really nice effect, one of the better tricks around. Its also pretty simple to code, should take no more than an afternoons work to get a good water routine. |
| VGATUT1.ZIP | VGA Tutorial, Demonstrates 3 different methods of writing pixels to a VGA screen. |
| VGATUT2.ZIP | VGA Tutorial part 2 This tutorial is about lines, circles & how to draw them. |
| VGATUT3.ZIP | Vga tutorial part 3 , the palette |
| VGATUT4.ZIP | Vga tutorial part 4, polygons |
| COLORQ_1.ZIP | Perform variance-based color quantization on a "full color" image. |
| EXPODUS.ZIP | PaletteTricks in pascal |
| FADE2.ZIP | FADE2 -- Turbo Pascal Fade Unit Includes: GrabPal, Blackout, FadeIn, FadeOut, and ResetTextMode procedures! SOURCE CODE INCLUDED |
| FADECODE.ZIP | FADECODE ASM and C source codes for fade out, fade in, palette morphing palette rotation, etc. |
| FADER.ZIP | Simple color-fader in Pascal |
| FADERCOT.ZIP | Fader, asm source |
| FAKE_MOD.ZIP | The official fakemode documentation source code included experience 3840 colors on standard vga !!! |
| FD2BLK.ZIP | Fading example in pascal |
| INTENSE.ZIP | High Intense Colors in Pascal UltImate Force presents a SOURCE CODE of a Turbo Pascal utility! Now you can use High Intense Background Colors. |
| MEDCUT.ZIP | MEDCUT , Median Cut Algorithm, Reduces True Color Images to Palette based Images Turbo Pascal Version 5 and up. |
| NLB-FADE.ZIP | Fade routine explanation , full source code included! |
| PALETTE.ZIP | Palette.C - VGA mode13h palette manipulation (v1.0) |
| PALETTE1.ZIP | palette.cpp C++ functions for blend, map, and set palette. |
| PALETTE4.ZIP | PaletteTricks in Pascal |
| PALROT.ZIP | Palette rotate Well, here's a file that shows how a palette rotate could be done. The advantage of this way is that it's just as easy to rotate both directions, and it doesn't require any additional memory, like backup copies of the palette or the such... |
| RGBHSL.ZIP | Pascal code to convert between RGB and HSL colorspace. |
| VGA-VUL2.ZIP | Palette tricks in assembler. Well, here's another fine source-code by Vulture. This time I will cover the palette. I have used a copple of these routines before (VGA-VUL1.ZIP) but I thought it might be usefull to explain things in detail. As always the code is documented but there are a few things that may need sum more explanation. That is what I am gonna do in this file... |
| VLAMODEX.ZIP | 256 colour cycling by vla (asm only) |
| BGIF17.ZIP | Graphics file dumper 1.7 (C Source only) Handles GIF, PCX, LBM, TGA |
| BOBPCX.ZIP | This C code shows a 320x200 256 color MCGA/VGA PCX file |
| CAVI32.ZIP | CAVI: Creates AVI video from static bitmap images (C source+exe) |
| DISPCX.ZIP | This program displays a pcx with a resoultion of 320x200 |
| DUMPING4.ZIP | This is the DOS executable and BPascal source of DUMPING. DUMPING checks a PNG file and dumps its content to the screen. It conforms to the PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Specification, 9th Draft, and it should be able to detect any errors in a given PNG file. |
| FLIP3206.ZIP | FLIP32 v0.6B FLIP32 is a WATCOM C/C++ package which demonstrate you how to play Autodesk Animator's FLI files under flat 32-bit protected mode environment. 32-bit protected mode FLI animation player. gives you all the basics to code the superb animation player of your fooliest dreams :) source code for TASM+WATCOM+WLINK |
| GIF.ZIP | GIF loader and decompressor in basic |
| LBPNG080.ZIP | libpng 0.8, PNG graphics format library in C |
| LPNG089C.ZIP | libpng 1.0 beta 3 - Version 0.89, header file for png reference library. This is a C library to help you implement PNG support in your programs. |
| PCXSEE.ZIP | This unit reads a pc paintbrush pcx file and shows it on the screen. } the picture may have 2,4 16 or 256 colors and be cga, ega, mcga or vga. } the picture will be displayed until a key is pressed. |
| PCXVIEW.ZIP | PCX loading and displaying program (C source) |
| PNGCHE_1.ZIP | authenticate a PNG file This program checks the PNG identifier with conversion checks, the file structure and the chunk CRCs. In addition, relations and contents of most defined chunks are checked, except for decompression of the IDAT chunks. |
| PNGSUITE.ZIP | Example PNG graphics files |
| PTOT.ZIP | Ptot.c Convert PNG (Portable Network Graphic) file to TGA (Truevision TGA File Format). Takes a filename argument on the command line. |
| SFLI10.ZIP | SFLI v1.0 A nice FLI player with 100% ASM source and dox |
| SVGAPCX.ZIP | SVGA Vesa PCX Loader 640x480x256 |
| TIF256.ZIP | Tiff256 graphics library extensions for c programmers version 4.0 Is a library of C routines which extend the capabilities of the VSA256 Graphics Library. With TIFF256 the C programmer has the tools necessary to read, display, and write Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) images using a 256 color video adapter running with the VESA BIOS Extensions. Support is provided for both Microsoft C and Borland C products. The name "TIFF256" reflects the fact that this library supports the 256 color video modes defined within the VESA standard. |
| TWEAKFLC.ZIP | Flic player with source included. Can play both 320x200 and 320x400 .FLI and .FLC animation files. Written in Pascal + ASM. |
| EXPLAIN.ZIP | Hardware Scrollies .... Everything You Might Dream Of |
| FASTSCRL.ZIP | Fast Scrolling in Mode X |
| MODEXPAN.ZIP | Some panning routines! (Asm src) |
| MWSTAR.ZIP | Tiny Parallax Starfield These files are a modification of my winning entry to the small, randomized ~200 star 4+ speed parallax scroller speed competition. The code delivers multicolor stars at many different scroll rates, exceeding the specifications of the competition. (asm source) |
| PANING.ZIP | Panning sourcecode in asm |
| SCROLL.ZIP | Asm scrollsource |
| SCROLL2.ZIP | This is a simple program to demonstrate one way to scroll a Page up or down using mode X. (c source) |
| SLUG.ZIP | Pixelpan.aSm -- ega/vga pixel panning routines |
| SMOOTH.ZIP | Smooth scrolling for the EGA/VGA |
| SOURCE.ZIP | This is the sourcecode for a simple 8-way scrolling demo. It includes everything except the low-level pixel copying functions, which were written in assembly and gathered in the modexc.Lib file. I expect that these are pretty standard functions, although your library no doubt uses different names and perhaps slightly different arguments. |
| VERTSCR.ZIP | Verticla Scroller by Dreaden / VLA [Full ASM source code included] |
| 200PLASM.ZIP | Highly optimized PLASMA Size : 200 bytes ASM Source incld |
| 4KAPSINI.ZIP | Interference Plasmademo with Asm src |
| CPLASMA.ZIP | cplasma - Real Color plasma clouds demo This file implements the real color plasma demostration using the plasma routines and palette rotation using the VGA 320x200x256 mode. |
| ESCPLASM.ZIP | Plasma demo with asm src |
| FRACTALS.ZIP | Plasma in Pascal |
| ONLY394.ZIP | ONLY394 - Plasma demo The worlds smallest plasma effect This plasma effect is based on the code Sten Roger Sandvik from X3M Productions made. BUT THIS ONE IS ONLY 394 BYTES BIG. FULL source code in assembler. |
| PLASMA.ZIP | Alan's Plasma Version 5.0 (Basic source) |
| PLASMA3.ZIP | MORE Plasma - btf '95 Uses hi-res VGA modex stuff to get a nice output Full code, exe & some palettes to try |
| QPLASMA.ZIP | QPlasma 1.0 in Quick Basic |
| QUADPLAS.ZIP | Quadratic Plasma (Qbasic source) |
| TERRAFOR.ZIP | Terraforming , The Plasma Algorithm |
| WPLASMA.ZIP | Wplasma - Runtime Sinus Wave Plasma Demostration. This file implements a runtime real plasma using sinus overlapping waves at random speeds using the VGA 320x80x256 mode. |
| CIRCLE.ZIP | Circle routine in assembly (PC) |
| CIRCLE1.ZIP | Fast Circle drawing program , with C source |
| CIREL.ZIP | Couple good simple routines Circle, Ellipse, Hyperbol Very good if you want to make clear code Src: C++ 3.1 and little asm |
| CMLINE10.ZIP | Heavly optimized line drawing algorithm, with inner loop faster than Bresenham. (asm) |
| FPOLY256.ZIP | This is a y mode (320x200x256 colors, 4 pages) polygon and line blitter package. |
| LINEDRW.ZIP | Line-drawing routine in assembly |
| POLY.ZIP | A fast C polygon drawing demonstration (Borland code) |
| RASPOLY.ZIP | C polygon drawing demonstration (Borland code) |
| TIRFI3.ZIP | A little triangle fill routine with Asm src |
| TURBOCRC.ZIP | Circle drawing routine in asm to be called from turbo pascal |
| VECTORCN.ZIP | Programs For Calculating New Vectors By Combining Old Vectors. with C++ source |
| 360X480.ZIP | Since i received a large number of requests for code examples on how to set and use the 360x480x256 color mode on the vga card i am posting some turbo pascal code routines and code fragments that demonstrate the use of this mode. |
| 3DSTARS.ZIP | 3D-stars (pascal source) |
| 640X32.ZIP | How to do 640x32x256c graphix in mode 13H Full TP source included. |
| ALIAS.ZIP | Short: Bitmap Scaling/Rotating/Antialiasing Filter prototyper C/PASCAL/ASM This program is a prototyper designed for at least the 486 processors. Preferably pentiums. It provides lots of code with a couple strategies in two to three languages for rotating and scaling a bitmap texture. It has has grayscale bilinear, trilinear, etc post antialiasing filtering as well as real-time color bilinear filtering through a lookup matrix. |
| ALIASPAS.ZIP | This is an scaling/rotation/antialiasing prototyping program (pascal) |
| BEZIER.ZIP | Forward Difference Long Integer Bezier Draw |
| BLOBS.ZIP | blobs experiments (C source) |
| CIRBOOST.ZIP | Cirrus 542x Booster! with Asm source |
| COLLIDE.ZIP | sample code for very fast pixel-precision collision detection. This code should be easy to add to any existing sprite engine that uses bounding-box collision detection. The one limitation is that sprites are assumed to be of less than 32 pixels in width (although it would be reasonably easy to extend the code to allow 64-pixel wide sprites). See the file COLLIDE.DOC for more information. |
| EXPLO203.ZIP | Eexplod 2.03, A free fireworks program supporting vga/ega/hercules/cga graphics. Many parameters can be given to alter the shape, size, density, number, and the speed of the explosions. C source |
| FADERS.ZIP | Fast wreal fadecodes for asm, turbo pascal & quick-basic. Understandable sourcecodes included fade-out and fade-in (without buffers only for txt mode but easy changeable to grafix mode. |
| FEPSTAR2.ZIP | 2D Star Effect with shadin (c++ source) |
| FIRE.ZIP | Firedemo with C++ source |
| FIREASM.ZIP | Firedemo with Asm source |
| FIREKIT.ZIP | FIREKIT v1.0 (Realistic!) Is an assembly language routine which generates a series of images which simulates fire. Through the use of a single data structure the application programmer can effect almost every single variable in the flame routine providing a wide array of visual effects. The FIREKIT application program, FLAME.EXE, allows you to manipulate all of these variables in real time with the keyboard. |
| FLAG.ZIP | Program to model a waving flag with asm src |
| FLAG1.ZIP | Flag demo with Pascal source |
| FLAMOOT.ZIP | FLamoot VGA SetUp 1.0 Coded by Type One / TFL-TDV for VGA settings in -= CONTRAST =- demo. supports HARDWARE 160x100 256 col (4 gfx pages chained !!!!) * the way to do the fastest rotative zoomers ever seen on C !!!! |
| FULLR_1.ZIP | Full Screen Rotation ,C source This code demonstrates a number of things: - Full screen image rotation/scaling using a reverse transformation algorithm. - Simple fixed point math. - Loading 320X200X256 PCX files. - Palette manipulation. - How to get into a square aspect ratio, in 320X200X256 CHAINED mode. |
| GCCSRC.ZIP | A DOS MPEG player, based on the Berkeley decoder. Includes full sources, compilable by GCC. C source. |
| HANDYVGA.ZIP | Very usefull vga-routines (if ya wanna learn ASM)... |
| IMAGSTUF.ZIP | Here are some simple image manipulation functions for 320x200x256 mode graphics. (C/asm) |
| JVESA10.ZIP | JVESA 1.0 A unit for TP 7.0 that uses the 256 color VESA modes and provides mouse support for them. |
| LENS.ZIP | Lens effect (magnifying glass) effect code |
| LENS1.ZIP | Lens effect in Asm/Basic |
| LFBPROF.ZIP | VBE 2.0 Linear Framebuffer Profiler Simple program to profile the speed of screen clearing and full screen BitBlt operations using a VESA VBE 2.0 linear framebuffer from 32 bit protected mode. For simplicity, this program only supports 256 color SuperVGA video modes that support a linear framebuffer. |
| LIKTWK17.ZIP | LikTwiik v1.7ß Videomodes up to your ears! (ASM) |
| LSPSPR.ZIP | Linear Space Partitioning Sprite, for Game Programming |
| LVGAPCX.ZIP | This file contains a set of unit written in pascal wich alow the loading of 640x480 x 256 color files in vga mode. The image is stored in the 0 page. This program is intended to be used as a development tool for programmers needing to load hi resolution pcx images into their programs. |
| MATRIX.ZIP | matrix demo source A simple little animation, like flying over an infinite tiled plane. Basically this is the floor effect from Doom (though I'd just like to point out that the original implementation of this (on an Acorn Archimedes) was done long before anyone ever realised you could use a PC for playing games, let alone writing Doom!) |
| MODES.ZIP | MODES.ASM - To switch from mode 03h (80x25x16 text) to mode 013h (320x200x256 graphics) without using the VGA BIOS. This sample also demonstrates the setting of the text mode font, and the use of a custom palette. |
| MOUSE256.ZIP | Setmouse, This example program shows how to create a multi-colored mouse Cursor with Fastgraph in 256-color XVGA and SVGA graphics modes. The program calls an assembly language function SETMOUSE (in the file SETMOUSE.ASM) that stores the mouse cursor screen and cursor masks in Fastgraph's internal data area. |
| NTREKSRC.ZIP | 3D Star Field function (C source) |
| OBJECT16.ZIP | Example program for 3d sprite putting with c/c++ Puts 3d sprites as a series of vertical columns. |
| PATT-SRC.ZIP | Small .ASM source of a pattern. 8086 and VGA or < needed... |
| PLASMA1.ZIP | Plasma demo |
| PSCALE.ZIP | Simple asm routine to scale a bitmap either to the screen or to another bitmap. In terrible need of optimization, it's been done in borland c++ 3.1 With tasm 3.1 |
| QUAKE.ZIP | Creates an Earthquake effect |
| RASTER9.ZIP | Raster Bars 1st try in Intel, ASM Source code included |
| RAYTRACE.ZIP | Test of height mapping in C |
| ROTAT.ZIP | Realtime Bitmap Rotation Routine |
| ROTATE.ZIP | A fast algorithm for rotating bitmaps |
| ROTATE10.ZIP | An rotating example on how to rotate a font (Asm) |
| SCALE.ZIP | Hi guys, here is a bit of code for bitmap scaling. I'm sure that it's all been seen before but it may help someone. |
| SCROLL1.ZIP | Scrolling example with C source |
| SHADE1.ZIP | Shadeline (pascal) |
| SHADEBOB.ZIP | This code implements bop shades using a gray palette of 64 levels in the VGA 320x200x256 graphics mode. (asm/pas) |
| SKY.ZIP | SKY: fast example code to draw a sky plane, as seen in Tim Clarke's MARS demo. Includes 2x2 dithering of the sky map. For Turbo Pascal/MASM, but easily modified for C or TASM. |
| SVPRTPIX.ZIP | Putpixel in vesa svga mode 640x480x256 (asm) |
| UNCHAIN2.ZIP | UNCHAIN, Planar VGA Mode 13h Enforcer v2.1 Aids in the debugging of planar modes, aka "Mode X" within IDE's such as BC, TC, BP, TP, TASM, TPROF, TD and others Also, Palette restoring & page viewing |
| VBE20.ZIP | INFO: VESA BIOS EXTENSION (VBE) Core Functions Version 2.0. Enclosed document contains the VESA BIOS Extension (VBE) specification for standard software access to graphics display controllers that support resolutions, color depths, and frame buffer organizations beyond the VGA hardware standard. It is intended for use by both applications programmers and system software developers. |
| VESA.ZIP | VESA graphics functions in pascal |
| VID.ZIP | VIDEO.ASM - Direct Video Access Routines for TASM Version 1 This is a module of FAST direct video routines for TASM. At this time they are released to the public domain. Much thanks to Brian Foley for FASTWR.PAS (Turbo Pascal V3 Inline Assember Screen Routines) which gave much insight on screen positioning and snow suppresion (horiz retrace waiting) |
| WOBBLER.ZIP | Wobbler effect |
| XSCALEBM.ZIP | Mode-x bitmap scaling in ASM |
| XTREEM01.ZIP | Xtreem, nice unit for tp70 with lots of usefull routines in it... Put y'r vga in any mode you want ! asm/tp source |
| XV_PC17.ZIP | XView-PC: Graphical User Interface for Pascal/C/C++ The XView-PC graphical user interface attempts to be similar to the XView toolkit used in Sun workstations, in a simplified form. |
| XVGA256.ZIP | Pascal unit for X-Mode (VGA/MCGA 320x200 256 colors) Supports a variety of graphics routines, including texture mapping. Built mostly in assembly, and includes compression algorithms for it's own image, palette and font-format. |
| YAK_WAVE.ZIP | Water-wave-effect + documented source |
| ZOOM_EX.ZIP | ASM source for zooming a picture |
