Determining the Current Adapter

You can determine the current adapter by calling the video display adapter function, vid_adapter():

int vid_adapter()

This function returns the current video display adapter. The return values can be interpreted as follows:

MDA Monochrome Display Adapter
CGA Color Graphics Adapter
EGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter
PGS Professional Graphics System
VGA Video Graphics Array
MCGA Monochrome Color Graphics Array


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