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 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 15 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.25.158.86 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1061900730 22315 127.0.0.1 (26 Aug 2003 12:25:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Aug 2003 12:25:30 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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.