Featuring complete, easily portable source code in C and assembly language, this desktop guide demonstrates the mechanics of working with bit-mapped graphics in different formats and on a wide variety of computer hardware. Readers learn how to read and write Macintosh and IBM PC-compatible graphics files, and how to use high-speed display drivers for Hercules, CGA, EGA, VGA, and Super VGA cards. Stephen Rimmer also discusses dot-matrix and laser printer device drivers; extended, expanded and virtual memory management techniques; and special image manipulation methods such as dithering.
- ISBN10 0830635580
- ISBN13 9780830635580
- Publish Date 1 October 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 July 1997
- Publish Country US
- Publisher McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
- Imprint TAB Books Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 512
- Language English