<html>
<b>Hi,
I thought that the memory address of DOS screen is 0x0b00.
But this didnt work for me.
Can anyone help in accessing the screen by using this address.
</b>
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In article <20*******************@Brian-Darcey.news.aioe.org>,
jmorgan <yo*@somehost.somedomainwrote:
><b>Hi,
>I thought that the memory address of DOS screen is 0x0b00.
But this didnt work for me.
Can anyone help in accessing the screen by using this address.
Hmmm, word for word the same as a posting from 19 Mar 2006 19:46:35 -0800
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Richard Heathfield wrote:
jmorgan said:
>I thought that the memory address of DOS screen is 0x0b00.
But this didnt work for me.
Can anyone help in accessing the screen by using this address.
<OT>
In MS-DOS, the base segment of text video memory is either 0xB000 (if you
have a monochrome video adapter) or 0xB800 (for colour). At the cost of
making your program non-portable to non-MS-DOS platforms, you can access
video memory by setting a pointer to it, like this:
unsigned char *scrptr = (unsigned char *)0xB8000000UL;
(Make sure you're using large memory model, or it's a bit more
complicated.)
If I remember correctly you can still use far pointers
in the medium or small memory model if you qualify
them with "_far", for instance
unsigned char _far *scrptr = (unsigned char _far *)0xB8000000UL;
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jacob navia said:
Richard Heathfield wrote:
<snip>
>unsigned char *scrptr = (unsigned char *)0xB8000000UL;
(Make sure you're using large memory model, or it's a bit more
complicated.)
If I remember correctly you can still use far pointers
in the medium or small memory model if you qualify
them with "_far", for instance
....which, as I said, is more complicated (but yes, you're right).
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jmorgan wrote:
>
I thought that the memory address of DOS screen is 0x0b00.
But this didnt work for me.
Can anyone help in accessing the screen by using this address.
<OT>
The address of the text screen buffer on an IBM-PC compatible in real
mode is B800:0000.
</OT>
How to access this in C depends on implementation-specific extensions
in your particular compiler. You will need to go elsewhere to get
this implementation-specific information.
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Walter Roberson wrote:
In article <20*******************@Brian-Darcey.news.aioe.org>,
jmorgan <yo*@somehost.somedomainwrote:
>><b>Hi,
>>I thought that the memory address of DOS screen is 0x0b00.
But this didnt work for me.
Can anyone help in accessing the screen by using this address.
Hmmm, word for word the same as a posting from 19 Mar 2006 19:46:35
-0800
That's strange indeed. Even the tags? Maybe it's a periodic post from a
spammer to harvest the email IDs of the respondents?
"santosh" <sa*********@gmail.comwrote in message
news:fs*********@registered.motzarella.org...
Walter Roberson wrote:
>In article <20*******************@Brian-Darcey.news.aioe.org>,
jmorgan <yo*@somehost.somedomainwrote:
>>><b>Hi,
>>>I thought that the memory address of DOS screen is 0x0b00.
But this didnt work for me.
Can anyone help in accessing the screen by using this address.
Hmmm, word for word the same as a posting from 19 Mar 2006 19:46:35
-0800
That's strange indeed. Even the tags? Maybe it's a periodic post from a
spammer to harvest the email IDs of the respondents?
Maybe a cut-and-paste from the earlier message by someone who wasn't happy
with the answers at the time. Or maybe thought the DOS memory address may
have changed in last two years.
The subject line looks like his own work though, with his own spelling of
'address'.
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In article <fs**********@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>,
Walter Roberson <ro******@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.cawrote:
>In article <20*******************@Brian-Darcey.news.aioe.org>,
jmorgan <yo*@somehost.somedomainwrote:
>><b>Hi,
>>I thought that the memory address of DOS screen is 0x0b00.
But this didnt work for me.
Can anyone help in accessing the screen by using this address.
Hmmm, word for word the same as a posting from 19 Mar 2006 19:46:35 -0800
Wow. Can you say "Too much time on my hands..." ?
"Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? It hath
been already of old time, which was before us." -- Ecclesiastes
I guess not.
On 26 Mar 2008 at 19:00, Kenny McCormack wrote:
In article <fs**********@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>,
Walter Roberson <ro******@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.cawrote:
>>In article <20*******************@Brian-Darcey.news.aioe.org>,
jmorgan <yo*@somehost.somedomainwrote:
>>><b>Hi,
>>>I thought that the memory address of DOS screen is 0x0b00.
But this didnt work for me.
Can anyone help in accessing the screen by using this address.
Hmmm, word for word the same as a posting from 19 Mar 2006 19:46:35 -0800
Wow. Can you say "Too much time on my hands..." ?
Jeez, that's truly scary... I mean, I know there are some anaroks around
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