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- From: charvel@salzo.Cary.NC.US (Jeff Cogswell)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
- Subject: Re: Peek and Poke in Visual Basic 1.0 ???
- Message-ID: <aXcXwB1w165w@salzo.Cary.NC.US>
- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 17:13:33 EST
- References: <54540003@hpgrla.gr.hp.com>
- Organization: SalzoBoard BBS
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- galenr@hpgrla.gr.hp.com (Galen Raben) writes:
-
- > In comp.windows.ms.programmer, harti@mikro.ee.tu-berlin.de (Stefan Hartmann (
- >
- > >I have just bought Visual Basic 1.0 standard edition and wanted
- > >to program a special hardware board inside the PC with it....
- > > **stuff deleted **
- >
- > Stefan,
- > It is possible, but not for the faint-of-heart. On CompuServe (and probably
- > a good number of ftp sites as well) in the MSBASIC forum VB library the file
- > is called "inout.zip". The reason MS doesn't include this functionality in
- > VB 1.0 or 2.0 is that it is EXCEPTIONALLY EASY to corrupt the Windows
- > environment by directly writing to hardware - definitely not for the average
- > software hacker (therefore MS limited their liability).
- >
- > Some other sources I can think of that may sell toolkits for this:
- > MicroHelp (1-800-922-3383 or 404/594-1185)
- > Crescent software (1-800-352-2742 or 203/438-5300)
- > I seem to recall MicroHelp has a package called VB-Muscle that has this...
- > Hope this helps,
- > - Galen -
-
- Hi,
- Microhelp as a freeware file which has the peek&poke commands for VB.
- You can call them; or, it's somewhere in the MSBASIC forum of Compuserve.
- (I can't remember the file name, though...)
-
- Always be careful when using peek & poke; when running under protected
- mode, very,very,very,very bad things can happen, since essentially
- in a nutshell the addresses can change...
- Jeff
- charvel@salzo.Cary.NC.US
-