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From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
Subject: Re: Help with vid mem access, please.
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Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 04:53:29 GMT
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Joshua Bates Stevens (jstev AT ccserver DOT uoregon DOT edu) wrote:

: Could someone please post a short code fragment showing how to directly 
: access video memory from djgpp *without* using inline assembly?  I'd be 
: very grateful.

Here's a fragment which displays a single character and attribute at
screen position Screen.  (Screen = 160*row+2*col for 80 char wide screen
assuming 0-based row and col numbers.)

#include <sys/farptr.h>
#define MK_DOS_ADDRESS(seg,ofs) (((unsigned long)(seg) << 4) + (unsigned)(ofs))
	_farsetsel(_dos_ds);
	screen = MK_DOS_ADDRESS(Screen_seg, Screen);
	_farnspokeb(screen, chr);
	_farnspokeb(screen+1, attr);

However, the farptr routines expand to inline assembly, so maybe this
doesn't fit your request.