From: "Michael Stewart" <mike AT reggin DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: 13h graphic mode width DJGPP
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 10:37:01 +0100
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Kevin Durda wrote in message <000b01beda83$a7caa880$9d96d8d1 AT default>...
>The best way is to turn of protected memory and create a pointer to the
>video memory.  Then you can use memcpy(pointer_to_screen,
pointer_to_buffer,
>64000).  If you send me a more complete example of what you are doing, I
>might be able to offer a little more detailed help.


This is not a better way. By switching off the protection you loose one
important aspect of pmode, plus it will not be very useable in NT or Linux.

As far as speed is concerned you'll only gain a few cycles by using `near
pointers'. The best way (IMHO) is to use double buffering and flip the page
using dosmemput.