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jatos

Joined: 04 Nov 2006
Posts: 20

jatos 01 Sep 2007, 22:10

Hi

Atm I am having distinct difficulty finding any detailed resources about using VGA without the BIOS.

I wondering, does anyone know a place where I could find some good resource on VGA without the BIOS? I want to be able to make basic text output routines and later on write a basic libary that a friend of mine can use to port their GUI to my OS.

While I am it any resources on getting text input and generally useful basic bits that people know would be very handy.

Thanks, Jamie

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01 Sep 2007, 22:10

Dex4u

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Dex4u 02 Sep 2007, 00:25

See here: http://bos.asmhackers.net/docs/vga_without_bios/
and if you take a look at the code for BOS you will find good text input etc.

02 Sep 2007, 00:25

jatos

Joined: 04 Nov 2006
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jatos 02 Sep 2007, 10:48

Thanks for that link. Will have a look.

Jamie

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02 Sep 2007, 10:48

Hayden

Joined: 06 Oct 2005
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Hayden 02 Sep 2007, 18:04

Under DOS the text screen is located at segment;

B800H for color modes
B000H for mono modes

Each character occupies one word, 16-bits in the format;

d0 - d7 = ascii character
d8 - d11 = forground color
d12 - d15 = background color

Try this... hope this example helps...

Code:

USE16
ORG 100H
JMP NEAR START

    BLACK   = 0       ; in graphics modes this is "transparent"
    BLUE    = 1
    GREEN   = 2
    CYAN    = 3
    RED     = 4
    MAGENTA = 5
    BROWN   = 6
    WHITE   = 7
    GRAY    = 8

    BRIGHT_BLUE    = 9
    BRIGHT_GREEN   = 10
    BRIGHT_CYAN    = 11
    BRIGHT_RED     = 12
    BRIGHT_MAGENTA = 13
    YELLOW         = 14
    BRIGHT_WHITE   = 15

    BLINKING       = 16     ; add to color to get blinking text

; This is what a string would look like in video text memory...

    myString db 'F',BLUE,'A',GREEN,'S',CYAN,'M',RED,'1',MAGENTA,'.',BROWN,'6',WHITE,'7',GRAY
    stLength = $ - myString

;--------------------------------------------------------
; this puts a color text string on black background
;--------------------------------------------------------

START:

; Set video - text mode #3 ( color )

    mov ax, 00003H
    int 10H

; Where do we want to write the string ?

    mov  di, 11*80*2 + 64   ; 11 lines down, 32 across
    push 0b800H             ; color text mode assumed!
    pop  es

; Setup the source...

    mov  si, myString       ; offset to my fasm string
    push cs
    pop  ds
    mov  cx, stLength       ; sizeOf(myString)

; Write it!

    rep  movsb

FINISH:

    xor ax, ax
    int 16H
    int 20H

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