🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Nov5.35540.4531@ms.uky.edu>, msunde01@mik.uky.edu (Mark Stephen Underwood) writes:
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>      I am currently trying to teach myself the C++ programming language  
> and am in need of a "project" to work on - one that will be interesting   
> and useful, rather than the usual boring stuff (in other words, my mind  
> has drawn a blank).  I was wondering if any of you had any ideas of a  
> utility or other handy little program that you always wished you could  
> have on your PC (or whatever), possibly of the Personal Information  
> Manager or Handle-those-Dumb-little-Calculations-I-Keep-Having-to-do or  
> possibly even something to handle some experimental data.


Well most video cards can have upto four pages (screens) of text in memory
which can be switched in with a bios call (ibm's i'm talking about)
so a little tsr which switched screen pages would be great.

This could be done by copying what's on the screen (page0 usually)
to page1,2,or 3 or by simply issuing a bios call to int10. The trick
part is setting the thing up as a tsr, and doing the bios call
when dos isn't busy or simply swapping the two screen pages around.

>      If you do, I would greatly appreciate an idea to work on while I  
> learn.  Please describe the nature of the "problem" and any relevant  
> input/output needs, and maybe in a few months I'll actually be able to do  
> something useful.  If you need something of a VERY technical nature  
> (something in math/science/whatever) that I have no experience in yet I  
> will also need help with relevant equations, concepts, or whatever.
>      Thank you.
> 
> --
> 			By your leave,
> 			
> 				Mark S. Underwood
> 				Electrical Engineering Student
> 				University of Kentucky
> 				msunde01@mik.uky.edu
> 				
> P.S.  This is a (somewhat) serious request from a programming novice, so  
> please do not ask me to write a program that solves the three-body problem  
> or does anything else extremely hard, or does anything impossible.
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