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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 12:33:28 +0000
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- From: KE WALTON <K.E.Walton@BRADFORD.AC.UK>
- Subject: Re: Prog HELP!
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- > > The video memory in all modes upto vga, is just a chunk of up to 256K of
- > > mem located imediatley above the 640K barrier, and can be directly written t
- to.
- >
- > Ah yes... but on EGA and VGA the video buffer at A000 consists of four memory
- > planes in parallel. If I could choose which one I am writing too I would solve
- > the problem!
-
- > > The book I use is :-
- > >
- > > The new Peter Norton Programmers Guide To the IBM PC & PS/2
- >
- > Likewise - a good book but Norton (deliberately?) left out specific video
- > info since Waltons book came out around the same time and they are personal
- > friends.
- >
- > My thanks for taking the time to try and help me out... all the real PC
- > answers seem to be in the IBM tech ref series - but try and find them!
- >
- > Roy.
- >
-
- Sorry I couldnt help, but If you manage to find a copy of the IBM Tech Series
- could you let me know, because I tried for months to find them !!
-
- Kevin
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