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From: bammi@cwruecmp.UUCP (Jwahar R. Bammi)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: ST char screen I/O query!?!
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Date: Wed, 26-Mar-86 02:23:17 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 26 02:23:17 1986
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> Anybody in net-land who can help me?
> 
> I'm searching the screen memory of the ST or a pointer to it when the
> ST is in command mode (COMMAND.TOS) or it is in a TOS application.
> I want to do direct character
> screen I/O like you can do on the IBM-PC, that means
> I want to write directly into the character screen memory. I know that you
> can do this in the pixel memory, as there are several hints mentioned in
> the developers kit documentation, but there is no word about a  
> character buffer. Any hints are welcome. Please send e-mail to 
> 
I don't know of any character buffer, but if you want to write raw
characters to the screen (ie. so that the emulator does not intercept
them) you can write to Device 5 using something like Bconout .
Hope tht helps.

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