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Re: PCT's CGA Screen



    I don't understand your post.  Please give me QBASIC example that will
show character's pixels.

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Bryan Parkoff
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"Dosius" <steve@dosius.zzn.com> wrote in message
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> "Bryan Parkoff" <BParkoff@satx.rr.com> wrote in message
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> > Thank you for the information, but it does not provide me enough
> > information.  After dump video memory into filename, which extension
should
> > be used?  Is it .Fnt or .Bmp, or etc?  I understand that CGA 8x8 pixel
font
> > contain 8 byte each 80x25 character.
>
> It's a BSAVE file, use any extension.  QBasic will default to .bas
> (!).  There's about 7 bytes of junk (the load address, etc.) at the
> beginning, followed by the data.  In text mode this is two bytes per
> character location (ASCII character, followed by color attribute),
> linear (line 2 comes directly after line 1, etc.).  In graphics mode
> this is somewhat like the Apple (and the two modes 320x200x4 and
> 640x200x2 use the same format).  I don't know about it.
>
> You can read the character at a certain location with SCREEN(y,x) and
> the pixel at a certain location with POINT(x,y).  See the QBasic
> online help for this, if you have it.  (Same for GW)
>
> -uso.