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  3. ║        XLIB v2.0 - Graphics Library for Borland/Turbo Pascal 7.0          ║
  4. ║                                                                           ║
  5. ║               Tristan Tarrant - tristant@cogs.susx.ac.uk                  ║
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  9. ║                                 Credits                                   ║
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  11. ║                             Themie Gouthas                                ║
  12. ║                                                                           ║
  13. ║                            Matthew MacKenzie                              ║
  14. ║                                                                           ║
  15. ║                             Tore Bastiansen                               ║
  16. ║                                                                           ║
  17. ║                                 Andy Tam                                  ║
  18. ║                                                                           ║
  19. ║                               Douglas Webb                                ║
  20. ║                                                                           ║
  21. ║                              John  Schlagel                               ║
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  25. ║           I informally reserve all rights to the code in XLIB             ║
  26. ║       Rights to contributed code is also assumed to be reserved by        ║
  27. ║                          the original authors.                            ║
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  32. ║ DISCLAIMER                                                                ║
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  35.   This library is distributed AS IS. The author/s specifically disclaim any
  36.   responsibility for any loss of profit or any incidental, consequential or
  37.   other damages.
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  40. ║ WHAT THIS PACKAGE IS                                                      ║
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  42.  
  43.   XLibPas v2.0 is a set of libraries and utilities that allow you to use some
  44.   extended features of the standard VGA adapter which are not exploited in 
  45.   mode 13h. The most important features are :
  46.     - Use of all of the 256k of standard VGA memory
  47.     - Several tweaked resolutions, all in 256 colours
  48.     - Multiple pages, double- and triple-buffering, page flipping and panning
  49.     - Split screen
  50.     - Planar, Video and Compiled bitmaps
  51.     - Drawing procedures (line,circle,pixel,boxes,filling,polygons)
  52.     - Text handling supporting user fonts
  53.     - Archiving and compression
  54.     - GIF/BMP encoding and decoding
  55.     - Bitmap scaling
  56.     - Virtual VSync handler
  57.     - Mouse routines
  58.     - Palette handling
  59.     - ...and (at long last) Protected Mode (experimental)
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