From: "Damian Yerrick" <NOSP AT Musenet@pineight.8m.com>
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"stefan fröberg" <traveler AT netti DOT fi> wrote:

> Also, how do you put that damn pixel on the screen on EGA
> (12h, 640x480x16) mode.

That's a VGA mode, with 480 scanlines. The closest EGA mode
is 0x10, with 640x350 pixels.

> (Yeah, I know that there are bitplanes or something like that but
> a code example would help me more...)

If you're on a VGA, try using mode 0x13. It's a *lot* simpler
to program. Just get farptr (preferably) or nearptr (if you must)
access to absolute 0xa0000, and treat it as a 2D array of chars.


Damian Yerrick