Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 23:55:59 +0500 (MVT)
From: Prashant TR <prashant_tr AT yahoo DOT com>
To: matej DOT baric AT guest DOT arnes DOT si
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Subject: Re: writing directly to video card
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> can someone point me to any tutorial (or just tell me here what to do) if I
> want to do something similar to functions in conio.h? e.g. I'd like to fill
> the last character on the screen (80*25) so that it wouldn't jump into next
> line?

_farpokeb(_dos_ds, 0xb8000+25*80*2, ascii value of character);
_farpokeb(_dos_ds, 0xb8000+25*80*2+1, attribute you want);

(untested code)

But for mono, the base address would be 0xb0000, rather than 0xb8000.
If you plan to write an entire screen at once, you could store these
details in a buffer and use dosmemput to write evertything at once onto
the video memory.

Hope this helps!

Prashant