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- From: c.brennan@student.utas.edu.au (chris brennan)
- Subject: Re: Computer Program Idea - Help!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.073234.22505@newsroom.utas.edu.au>
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- Organization: University of Tasmania
- References: <1992Nov5.35540.4531@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 07:32:34 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.35540.4531@ms.uky.edu>, msunde01@mik.uky.edu (Mark Stephen Underwood) writes:
- >
- >
- > I am currently trying to teach myself the C++ programming language
- > and am in need of a "project" to work on - one that will be interesting
- > and useful, rather than the usual boring stuff (in other words, my mind
- > has drawn a blank). I was wondering if any of you had any ideas of a
- > utility or other handy little program that you always wished you could
- > have on your PC (or whatever), possibly of the Personal Information
- > Manager or Handle-those-Dumb-little-Calculations-I-Keep-Having-to-do or
- > possibly even something to handle some experimental data.
-
-
- Well most video cards can have upto four pages (screens) of text in memory
- which can be switched in with a bios call (ibm's i'm talking about)
- so a little tsr which switched screen pages would be great.
-
- This could be done by copying what's on the screen (page0 usually)
- to page1,2,or 3 or by simply issuing a bios call to int10. The trick
- part is setting the thing up as a tsr, and doing the bios call
- when dos isn't busy or simply swapping the two screen pages around.
-
- > If you do, I would greatly appreciate an idea to work on while I
- > learn. Please describe the nature of the "problem" and any relevant
- > input/output needs, and maybe in a few months I'll actually be able to do
- > something useful. If you need something of a VERY technical nature
- > (something in math/science/whatever) that I have no experience in yet I
- > will also need help with relevant equations, concepts, or whatever.
- > Thank you.
- >
- > --
- > By your leave,
- >
- > Mark S. Underwood
- > Electrical Engineering Student
- > University of Kentucky
- > msunde01@mik.uky.edu
- >
- > P.S. This is a (somewhat) serious request from a programming novice, so
- > please do not ask me to write a program that solves the three-body problem
- > or does anything else extremely hard, or does anything impossible.
- >
- >
-