From:	cbramix AT libero DOT it (Carlo)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	DJGPP and old VGA feature
Date:	26 Aug 2003 05:25:29 -0700
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Hello everyone!
Long (long...) time ago I was using a very useful feature of DJGPP.
I'm talking about the linear frame buffer emulation for video cards
with bank switching function only.
Now this feature has been removed and I thought it was caused by DPMI
server (no functions available for doing that).
But after reading the functions available in DPMI I got the impression
it could be done, at least a small part.
I think it would be interesting to add a new selector by default,
maybe called _vga_ds, in addition to _dos_ds, _my_ds, etc.
Or I could be simply wrong and this method can't be done right now.

Sincerely,

Carlo.

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