redirecting video ram??? (in mode 13)

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From: Paal K Holmberg
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 11:35

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 i just read that someone hinted it was possible to tell the vga-card to 
fetch it's display data from an arbitrary memory location in normal ram.
is this really possible, if it is it would be a great help. Does anyone know 
anything about this ?

-- 
 Paal Krebs Holmberg
 UiB
 Norway
 
 "To program, or not to program - thats not a question " ;-) 

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Subject: redirecting video ram??? (in mode 13)
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