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Subject: Re: How do I write directly to a memory address?
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Le Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:00:24 +0100, Georg Bauhaus  =

<rm-host.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de> a =C3=A9crit:
> The Ada archives should, I think, have examples of writing to
> DOS's video buffer.
Tiny note aside: B800:0000 or B8000 (as linear address), was not the DOS=
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video buffer, this was the place where the VGA RAM was mapped to. If I a=
m  =

not wrong, this was not a DOS matter, but a VGA matter (may be depending=
  =

on how the BIOS was setting up the adapter also).

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