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From: rkl@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (kevin.laux)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: EGA Saving
Message-ID: <7512@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 19 Jan 90 16:42:27 GMT
References: <1598@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>
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In article <1598@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>, wozniak@utkux1.utk.edu (Bryon Lape) writes:
| 
| 	I need a routine to save a screen in EGA mode 13 to disk.  This
| is the 640X350 screen.  This would be somewhat easy if I was on page 0,
| but I am not.  What I need is something like Basic's BSAVE and BLOAD,
| yes I do need to read the image in.  I thought about using _dos_write()
| function (QUick C 2.0), but am not sure of the starting far pointer.
| Ega starts at A000:0000.

	Try using the _putimage(), _getimage(), and _imagesize() routines from
the MSC 5.1 compiler.  Works fine and you specify coordinates instead of
memory addresses (0,0 is the upper left hand corner).

--rkl