From: "Stefan Viljoen" <rylan AT intekom DOT com>
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Subject: Re: 13h forerver (heyy)
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 08:00:54 +0300
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> I wrote (with an awful lot of help from Eli) a small bit of code which may
> help here.
> If you search for the thread 'Selector code' then for a message posted
about
> 21 June, it should contain the code we produced.
>
> Use it like this:
> if (make_ds (my_ds, 0xa0000, 64000)) {

I generally use

#include "dpmi.h"

int vid_descr = 0;
.
.
vid_descr = __dpmi_segement_to_descriptor(0x0A000);

And then in NASM

mov    es,[_vid_descr]
mov     byte[es:di] or whatevery to write pixels.


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