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-: > In fact, it might be sufficient if you could just tell the
-: > BIOS to use one of the upper 128 PC chars as a cursor.
-:
-: Except that AFAIK, there's no way of telling the BIOS to use a
-: certain character as the text-mode cursor.  If you know how to
-: do that, please tell.

No, I don't yet know how to do what I suggested :-/
Damien has posted some interesting ideas.

I'm not sure how much of the text cursor management can even
be intercepted---I'll have to review the BIOS firmware assembly
listing and browse RBIL again.