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adroit

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adroit

Can someone show me how to do a screen delay and claer the screen in DOS.

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meshnix

05 Mar 2010, 14:08

edfed

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edfed

can you reapeat the question please?
what do you mean by screen delay and claer the screen?

05 Mar 2010, 14:18

cthug

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cthug

By screen delay do mean this?

Code:

org     100h

mov dx, _msg
mov ah, 9
int    21h

.wait:
       mov     ah, 0Bh
     int     21h

     cmp     al, 0FFh
    jne     .wait

_msg db 'Press Any Key ...', 0Ah, 0Dh, '$'

[edit]
If you want to clear the screen in text mode, and you only have to do it once, you can cheat and reset the video mode.

Code:

org       100h

; set textmode
mov       ax, 0003h
int        10h

mov  dx, _msg
mov ah, 9
int    21h

.wait:
       mov     ah, 0Bh
     int     21h

     cmp     al, 0FFh
    jne     .wait

_msg db 'Press Any Key ...', 0Ah, 0Dh, '$'

[/edit]

05 Mar 2010, 14:43

zhak

Joined: 12 Apr 2005
Posts: 492
Location: Belarus

zhak

writing directly to video memory may be the fastest method of clr.

i always use the following:

Code:

clr:
    xor di, di
    mov ax, 0x0720
    mov cx, 80*25
  @@:
    mov [gs:di], ax    ;gs = 0xb800 (i always use it as video mem base)
    add di, 2
    dec cx
    jnz short @b
    ret

05 Mar 2010, 16:36

edfed

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edfed

faster in 32 bits:

Code:


mov ecx,40*25
mov eax,07200720h
@@:
mov [gs:ecx*2-2],eax
loop @b
ret

05 Mar 2010, 16:46

MHajduk

Joined: 30 Mar 2006
Posts: 6038
Location: Poland

MHajduk

I wonder if we could do the same this way (code not tested):

Code:

push es

mov   ax, 0720h 
mov       cx, 25*80
xor        di, di

push      gs
pop       es

rep   stosw

pop        es

[EDIT]Registers changed to 16-bit. Wink

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05 Mar 2010, 17:54

baldr

Joined: 19 Mar 2008
Posts: 1651

baldr

MHajduk,

It works, but why eax/ecx/edi?

I'm waiting for SSE version, with snow suppression. ;-)

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MeshNix,

You may use int 10/fn 06 (or fn 07) for compatibility reasons – it should work in any video mode supported by VideoBIOS.

05 Mar 2010, 18:14

adroit

Joined: 21 Feb 2010
Posts: 252

adroit

Yea, something similar

Cthug, the code doesn't work.

Oh ok. So how does the label @@ work. I understand the code, but not '@@'.

05 Mar 2010, 21:09

edfed

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edfed

read the fasm manual before to ask several questions.

05 Mar 2010, 21:45

zhak

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zhak

it's just unnamed label. jmp @b jumps to the nearest @@ label above and jmp @f jumps to the nearest @@ below the jump instruction. i think those labels are described in fasm tutorial.

05 Mar 2010, 21:48

edfed

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edfed

@b for before
@f for forward

05 Mar 2010, 21:56

cthug

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cthug

mm, all kinds of error, that's what you get when at 4am Smile

05 Mar 2010, 22:34

adroit

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adroit

Oh, so they just stand for back and forward to the nearest @@, which I think there can be multiple of @@ labels, right?

Cthug lol

05 Mar 2010, 22:49

cthug

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Location: /home/Australia

cthug

I fixed it, but try writing directly to video memory, this might not even work on all hardware Embarassed

Code:

org     100h

mov ax, 0003h
int        10h

mov  dx, _msg
mov ah, 9
int    21h

.wait:
       mov     ah, 0Bh
     int     21h

     cmp     al, 0FFh
    jne     .wait

; exit
mov      ax, 4C00h
int        21h

_msg db 'Press Any Key ...', 0Ah, 0Dh, '$'

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05 Mar 2010, 22:50

Coddy41

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Coddy41

whoah... what are this? I noticed you all are using

Code:

    mov ax, 0x0720

Is this another method of writing to VGA? I always have used 0xB8000 Confused

Or is this completely different.

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06 Mar 2010, 00:02

baldr

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baldr

Coddy41,

0x0720 is ASCII SPACE with attribute lightgray-on-black. Wink

06 Mar 2010, 00:57

adroit

Joined: 21 Feb 2010
Posts: 252

adroit

how is that possible (well anything is possible but, still...)? Does it block the space in gray?

06 Mar 2010, 03:02

zhak

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Location: Belarus

zhak

MeshNix wrote:

Does it block the space in gray?

Didn't get it, but back to the basics... video mode 3 (default, text, 80x25, 16 colors). video memory starts at segment 0xb800. 80*25 = 2000 characters on the screen. each character is displayed by placing WORD at the address that corresponds to its relative position from the beginning of segment
because each character in video memory is represented by a character itself (low byte) and color attribute (high byte)

so, if you want to put a red '!' on blue background at row 2 column 3, you

Code:

TXTCOLOR_RED = 0x04
BKGCOLOR_BLUE = 0x10
mov ah, BKGCOLOR_BLUE+TXTCOLOR_RED
mov al, '!'
mov di, (02*80+03)*2
mov [es:di], ax    ;es = 0xb800

puting space character (0x20) clears the screen because it's blank character, you don't see it

something like that. maybe guys would provide you with some links on video programming, i don't have any right now

06 Mar 2010, 09:12

edfed

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edfed

http://wiki.osdev.org/VGA_Hardware

read it, then, when you have understand the basics of VGA, you will be able to code without asking anything to us, and maybe we will ask to you Smile

good luck

06 Mar 2010, 09:20

Coddy41

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Location: Ohio, USA

Coddy41

baldr wrote:

Coddy41,

0x0720 is ASCII SPACE with attribute lightgray-on-black.

I knew that... That is the last time I come to the fasm board when tired Rolling Eyes

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06 Mar 2010, 12:53

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