From: phreadd AT powerup DOT com DOT au (David Orme)
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Subject: URGENT! repost: palette problems, please help.
Date: 31 Jul 1997 11:48:34 GMT
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I'm displaying PCX files to the screen in VESA mode 0x101 (640x480x256, all 
calls being VESA 1.2 for convenience). The problem is that the palette 
either:
a) isn't being loaded correctly, or
b) isn't being set correctly.

This is what I'm doing:


byte pal[768];
FILE f;

  /* open the file and load the palette */
  f=fopen("file.pcx","rb");
  fseek(f,-768,SEEK_END);
  fread(pal,1,768,f);
  fclose(f);

  /* set the vga palette */
  outportb(0x3c8,0);
  for(i=0;i<768;i++)
    outportb(0x3c9,pal[i]);


PLEASE! Why isn't this working? It seems pretty straight forward, but 
there's a glitch somewhere. I have posted this before, but I didn't get a 
response, and I really need this for uni.

Your help is very appreciated.


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