Re: Saving machine state

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From: Fridrik Skulason
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:40

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robert@alkymi.unit.no (Robert Schmidt) writes:

>Also, the video state should be saved correctly.  Consider all those 
>undocumented VGA modes and Super VGA modes...  you have to save all VGA
>registers in addition to the VGA memory. 

Eh, what if the machine has an EGA card, with those nasty write only registers ?

-frisk

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Subject: Re: Saving machine state
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