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From: pervect@bsu-cs.UUCP (Barrett Kreiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: EGA's memory
Message-ID: <2171@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 88 22:56:22 GMT
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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Hello.  I'm a satisfied EGA user and was wondering a few things:

I understand about how there are the different bit planes and stuff,
but heres the deal:

My card has the full 256k, and you start counting at $A000, that means
that it runs to $DFFF.  This doesn't run true, because I have rom routines
for my hard disk at $C800.  So how does one access the high 128K of the card?
(I know that 128k runs from $A000 to $BFFF)
And what is it used for?
I know there are ram based fonts somewhere, but where? and how?
can you, in the 640 x 350 graphics mode, create text attributes?
(I'm looking for Blink if anyone knows).


Basically, what I'm looking for is a EGA guru to guide my studies into
it's mysteries.

Anyone out there fit the bill?

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