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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 15:41:39 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Video Pointers under NT
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Kelvin Cracknell wrote:
> 
> I am writing a simple text mode game where I use a near pointer to the video
> memory (oxb8000).
> 
> I am using near_pointer_enable (or whatever) and it is fine expect that is
> crashes under NT.
> 
> Is there a way that I can make a char * pointer to the text mode video
> memory that is NT compliant.

No.  You'll have to use a farptr method, or else the conio functions.
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Nate Eldredge
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