Re: More on loading into vga video mem!

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From: John A. Slagel
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 18:27

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mucds@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Corey D. Stinson) writes:

> 

>     Someone posted that one correct method might be:
>         (unsigned char far*)VideoMem = 0xA00000000L;
                                         0xA0000000L;

       This should be a 32-bit far pointer.  Segment=A000, Offset=0000,
       which combined make 0xA0000000L (7 zeros, not 8!)

>     This doesn't seem to work at all.  Could someone provide
>     some advice?  Thanx

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