Re: How to change video modes??

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From: Jeff Kenton
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 02:41

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jmeyers@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jeff Meyers) writes:

>OK, here's the situation: I have two monitor (VGA and mono) and want to write
>a TSR that will display text on the mono monitor without disturbing the
>VGA screen.

>I need to be able to do three things: clear the mono screen, write text to
>it, and scroll up one line.  As usual, I would like the easiest and most
>efficient method - other than writing directly to video memory.

>Any suggestions?  Do I need to do something else to change video modes with
>the above listed BIOS call?

Do the VGA stuff the normal way, and write directly to video memory for mono.


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