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<title>Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book Special Edition: Mode X: 256-color VGA Magic</title><!-- HEADER -->
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<h2><a id="Heading1"></a>Chapter 47<br />
<h2 id="Heading1">Chapter 47<br />
Mode X: 256-Color VGA Magic</h2>
<h3><a id="Heading2"></a>Introducing the VGA&rsquo;s Undocumented &ldquo;Animation-Optimal&rdquo; Mode</h3>
<h3 id="Heading2">Introducing the VGA&rsquo;s Undocumented &ldquo;Animation-Optimal&rdquo; Mode</h3>
<p>At a book signing for my book <i>Zen of Code Optimization</i>, an attractive young woman came up to me, holding my book, and said, &ldquo;You&rsquo;re Michael Abrash, aren&rsquo;t you?&rdquo; I confessed that I was, prepared to respond in an appropriately modest yet proud way to the compliments I was sure would follow. (It was my own book signing, after all.) It didn&rsquo;t work out quite that way, though. The first thing out of her mouth was:</p>
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<p>So, in the end, I&rsquo;m thoroughly pleased with Mode X; the world is a better place for it, even if it did cost me my one potential female fan. (Contrary to popular belief, the lives of computer columnists and rock stars are not, repeat, <i>not</i>, all that similar.) This and the following two chapters are based on the <i>DDJ</i> columns that started it all back in 1991, three columns that generated a tremendous amount of interest and spawned a ton of games, and about which I still regularly get letters and e-mail. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you...Mode X.</p>
<h3><a id="Heading3"></a>What Makes Mode X Special?</h3>
<h3 id="Heading3">What Makes Mode X Special?</h3>
<p>Consider the strange case of the VGA&rsquo;s 320x256-color mode&mdash;Mode X&mdash;which is undeniably complex to program and isn&rsquo;t even documented by IBM&mdash;but which is, nonetheless, perhaps the single best mode the VGA has to offer, especially for animation.</p>
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Graphics Programming Black Book &copy; 2001 Michael Abrash
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