Disk No: 2798                                                           
Disk Title: Fastgraph/Light #2 (2797 & 2799 also)                       
PC-SIG Version: S1.10                                                   
                                                                        
Program Title: Fastgraph/Light                                          
Author Version: 1.10                                                    
Author Registration: $49.00                                             
Special Requirements: 640K RAM, and a Compiler.                         
                                                                        
Fastgraph/Light is a library of more than 100 highly-optimized routines 
that are callable from high-level and assembly language programs running
under the MS-DOS or PC-DOS operating systems.  This collection of       
routines provides a programmer with proven, powerful tools to take      
command of the PC and PS/2 text and graphics video environment.         
Fastgraph/Light's major functional areas include:                       
                                                                        
~ Video mode detection and initialization                               
                                                                        
~ Colors, virtual colors, and palettes                                  
                                                                        
~ Graphics fundamentals, including points, solid and dashed lines,      
polygons, circles, ellipses, solid and dithered rectangles, region      
fill, and clipping                                                      
                                                                        
~ Character display                                                     
                                                                        
~ Image display facilities, including mode-specific and mode-independent
images, clipped and reversed images, image retrieval, pixel run maps,   
and image transfer                                                      
                                                                        
~ Physical and virtual video page management                            
                                                                        
~ Animation                                                             
                                                                        
~ Special effects                                                       
                                                                        
~ Keyboard, mouse, and joystick control                                 
                                                                        
~ Sound effects and music, both synchronous and asynchronous            
                                                                        
~ Supports Microsoft C, Turbo C/C++, Borland C++, QuickC, QuickBASIC,   
and MS FORTRAN                                                          
                                                                        
~ Supports small, medium, and large memory models                       
                                                                        
~ Extensive tutorial-style user's guide and reference manual            
                                                                        
~ No royalties                                                          
                                                                        
As its name implies, the most notable feature of Fastgraph/Light is its 
speed. Fastgraph/Light is written in 8086 assembly language, and each   
routine has been optimized by hand to provide maximum performance.      
Fastgraph/Light includes an external video driver (FGDRIVER) that you   
load before running a program developed with Fastgraph/Light, just as   
you load a mouse driver before you run a program that uses a mouse.  The
Fastgraph/Light software license agreement allows you to distribute this
driver without charge as part of your applications.                     
                                                                        
Fastgraph/Light supports all standard text and graphics video modes     
used by the IBM PC (PC, PC/XT, and PC/AT) and PS/2 families and         
compatible systems. In addition, Fastgraph/Light provides support for a 
commonly used video mode for the Tandy 1000 series computers and the    
PCjr, two video modes for the Hercules Graphics Card, and two extended  
VGA modes.  In total, Fastgraph/Light supports 15 graphics modes and 5  
text modes.                                                             
                                                                        
                                                                        
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