Colour Graphics Adapter: how do you get 2 more palettes in medium res?

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From: Jan Gray
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1986 18:00

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From the documentation I've seen, there are only two medium res colour palettes,
one with black, red, green, yellow, and the other black, magenta, cyan, white.

However, Turbo Pascal can set another two palettes with "high intensity"
colours.  How is this done?  The BIOS Video Set Palette call doesn't
seem to be able to set palette 2 or 3.  Is there a BIOS call to do this?
Is there a (much less portable) IO address to poke?

Thank you very much,
Jan Gray	Looking Glass Software, Waterloo Ont.	(519) 884-7473

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