From:	Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Blink vs 16 background colors.
Date:	Thu, 29 May 1997 19:06:36 +0100
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Gregary J Boyles writes:
>How do you change the way in which the 7 bit of the text attribute byte is
>interpreted i.e. change between having a blink attribute and having 16
>(instead of 8) background colors.

Call int 0x10 with %ax=1003. Put a zero in %bx to enable 16 color mode,
and one to select blink mode. Eg:

   __dpmi_regs reg;
   reg.x.ax = 0x1003;
   reg.x.bx = 0;
   __dpmi_int(0x10, &reg);


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