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[Rene]

How can i make a putpixel routine that can plot pixels on both a virtual screen and the VGA screen. Something like this.

putpixel(int x, int y, int color, char*scr)

I also need a flip routine but how can this be done. Those i have made just generate a general page fault.

Please help me...
Thanks....

[Hw]

Making putpixel to backbuffer is fairly
easy; all you need is to allocate backbuffer
and write to it;

char *backbuffer;
...
backbuffer = (char*) malloc (64000);
...
*(backbuffer + x + y*320) = color;
(assuming 320x200x256 mode)

However, copying this to video memory is a bit trickier. As I don't have my sources nearby right now, I suggest that you check help (hmm... RHIDE's help will do nicely), function that could do the job is _dosmemput or something like that. You will need video memory's base address (0xa0000 - note 4 0's!) and it's size (64000 bytes) in addition of backbuffer address.

Of course, this isn't fastests possible way to do flipping, but faster methods are even trickier...

[Aries]

If you have DJGPP you should get ALLEGRO at once !!!!

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Programming is an art

[Rene]

Actually i really wanted to know how i can make a putpixel that can plot pixels on both a virtual screen the realscreen. Like this:

char *VirtualScreen=malloc(64000);
putpixel(x,y,color,0xa0000);
putpixel(x,y,color,VirtualScreen);
flip(0xa0000,VirtualScreen);

Is there some books which can help with this subject. Memory in protected mode is a bit confusing.

Thank you....

[Dragun]

Try this link and look around.