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From: GILLMANN@USC-ISIB@sri-unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Program to Set CRT Mode Explicitly
Message-ID: <11850@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 25-Sep-83 00:45:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 25 00:45:00 1983
Date-Received: Mon, 26-Sep-83 03:03:56 EDT
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From:  Dick Gillmann <GILLMANN@USC-ISIB>

Here's a little program to set the CRT to any mode, including the
graphics modes not settable with the DOS MODE command.

	TITLE	MOWED -- Set CRT Mode Explicitly

;  MOWED: Set CRT Mode
;  Richard Gillmann, 1983

;  MOWED 0 = 40x25 BW
;        1 = 40x25 Color
;        2 = 80x25 BW
;        3 = 80x25 Color
;        4 = 320x200 Color
;        5 = 320x200 BW
;        6 = 640x200 BW
;        7 = 80x25 Monochrome Adapter

;  MASM MOWED;
;  LINK MOWED;
;  EXE2BIN MOWED.EXE MOWED.COM

CSEG	SEGMENT
	ASSUME	CS:CSEG,DS:CSEG
	ORG	80H
CMD_LIN	LABEL	BYTE		; UNFORMATTED PARAMETER AREA
	ORG	100H
MOWED	PROC	FAR
	MOV	AL,CMD_LIN+2	; GET ARG
	SUB	AL,'0'		; CONVERT TO BINARY
	CMP	AL,7		; WITHIN RANGE?
	JA	OUT		; EXIT IF NOT
	XOR	AH,AH		; SET MODE
	INT	10H		; BIOS VIDEO CALL
OUT:	INT	20H		; RETURN TO EXEC
MOWED	ENDP
CSEG	ENDS
	END	MOWED

[MOWED.ASM has been added to the Info-IBMPC library.]