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- From: jas37876@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (John A. Slagel)
- Subject: Re: redirecting video ram??? (in mode 13)
- References: <1992Nov19.113538.2573@alf.uib.no>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:40:21 GMT
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- s026@brems.ii.uib.no (Paal K Holmberg) writes:
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- > i just read that someone hinted it was possible to tell the vga-card to
- >fetch it's display data from an arbitrary memory location in normal ram.
- >is this really possible, if it is it would be a great help. Does anyone know
- >anything about this ?
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- Nope. You CAN NOT do it. Period. The VGA memory is located on
- the VGA card. The A000 segment is not real memory, it is just a
- frame to access the VGA card.
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