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  1. BloodyCactus

    PC BIOS function int 21, 48

    it was specific to the original post which was not built with large memory model, AFAIR. obviously far is not needed in a large memory model as all pointers are then far by default.
  2. BloodyCactus

    PC BIOS function int 21, 48

    I took your dos call out and just used the library function farmalloc. I had it allocate 400KB and then the 64k.. no problems. is there a reason you want to use dos 48? I suspect there is an issue with turbo c's heap, i ran debugger over it and it was doing something weird in its internal call...
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    PC BIOS function int 21, 48

    hmmm that does not sound correct at all. I do it all the time with watcomc. its been a long time since I used turboc, but should not make any difference. I just did a test (turboc 2.01), works perfectly fine for me; compile with "tcc -ml" #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <dos.h>...
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    PC BIOS function int 21, 48

    I think this is your problem, you need to declare it as a far pointer, regardless of the memory model your using. you will probably run into issues if you use things like memmove because they expect pointers in their native memory model, unless its smart enough to start doing conversions. byte...
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    Help needed with writing an AIL/32 driver: dummy driver works in ASM, but not in C

    ok heres an example of doing the cdecl calls from c<>asm<>c. C calls into our assembler, which calls printf back in C land. below is a build.bat file, x.asm and q.c that i knocked out --build.bat-- nasm x.asm -fobj -o x.obj wcc386 -oneatx -ecc -3 q.c wlink name test.exe debug all option...
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    Help needed with writing an AIL/32 driver: dummy driver works in ASM, but not in C

    i would guess, you need to shim the message as code (.text) and not a string (aka .data). because when you link it, it will link text/code, data, then bss. and if you have strings, they are data. watcom can compile strings into code, but it probably wont be positioned as you want. you need to...
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    Help needed with writing an AIL/32 driver: dummy driver works in ASM, but not in C

    well if your using watcom you need to know it has a dozen calling conventions and it depends on who is calling whom... -ec{c,d,f,p,r,s,w} c - __cdecl d - __stdcall f - __fastcall p - __pascal r - __fortran s -...
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    Programming > 80x25 text modes in DOS with Borland Turbo C++ 3.0

    the problem with most of those modes is, they often use either B000 or A000 for memory instead of the more common b800, and tihs messes up most anything expecting to talk to the screen.. so other programins printing to stdout, most of it goes through int 0x29, which is a front end to going out...
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    C code portability question

    I always use stdint.h + inttypes.h and size_t. it gets annoying when you dump say an ftell() into a uint32_t and its good on a few platforms then and one says noo i need size_t for that..
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    Bring out your dead! (Looking for mTCP bugs)

    Ive tried 3com 3c905B-TX + 3c905C-TX PCI nic packet drivers are fine. no ndis, no odi, just packet driver loaded high!
  11. BloodyCactus

    Borland C++ 4.0/4.5 - EXE size vs. exception handling/RTTI

    extra size... so did you strip debug information off the executable?
  12. BloodyCactus

    Accessing VRAM in tiny model .com program for MSDOS

    if save_DS is a memory location, and your just a .COM, you probably want cs: mov ax, save_DS because you have no idea where DS is currently set.
  13. BloodyCactus

    MCGA Load fonts

    I just wrote a test, and your correct, changing svga_s3 to mcga ... my 5 line test asm did nothing. thats not what I expected either. could probably log it as a bug on the DBX github.
  14. BloodyCactus

    MCGA Load fonts

    that function 0x1100, absolutely does work under dosbox-x and dosbox.
  15. BloodyCactus

    MCGA Load fonts

    I dont know about MCGA but I run fonts in VGA all the time. AX = 1100h ES:BP -> user table CX = count of patterns to store DX = character offset into map 2 block BL = block to load in map 2 BH = number of bytes per character pattern ;; es:bp -> text mode font mov ax,0x1100 mov bx,0x1000 mov...
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    Full bore RS-422 or RS-485 for MCA?

    The MAX22503E IC will do 100Mbps (which is about 12 megabytes per second). But I've not seen any 485 cards for MCA at all.
  17. BloodyCactus

    1983 - coming ready or not

    aaah I get it, you want free public domain so you can work off the backs of others, but keep any changes you make closed and not share.. got it. otherwise opensource would fit the bill. you must have some amazing compiler optimisation changes nobody has ever thought off you want to fearfully...
  18. BloodyCactus

    1983 - coming ready or not

    djgpp is open source, so I dont see the point of this reasoning. you can enhance and produce a commercial product from it. so can anyone else.
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    1983 - coming ready or not

    wow. subc.. I havnt thought about this since I bought the book in 2012 off lulu? Are we talking the same SubC?
  20. BloodyCactus

    Windows 3.1 modify system palette (VGA)

    doubt it, win3.1 runs in protected mode, so probably traps IO access to the vga hardware... my memories are foggy, maybe it was 3.11 that was pmode and 3.1 not? I think some build of 3.x was not protected mode..
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