Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!mailrus!iuvax!bobmon From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Screen Border Message-ID: <11433@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Date: 9 Aug 88 14:32:35 GMT References: <2359@ur-tut.UUCP> <11297@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <31013@clyde.ATT.COM> Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (RAMontante) Organization: malkaryotic Lines: 19 feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke) writes: + I write: +> The Heath/Zenith Users Group magazine, REMark, gives [a 4-page] assembler +> program that controls the border color in its July 1988 issue. + +For IBM and clones, using CGA, 4 or 5 instructions will produce +border color control of the screen. + +mov al,08 ; This value controls color. +mov dx,03d9 +out dx,al +int 20h +nop Sounds reasonable. The REMark program lets one scroll through all the choices and stop when a nice color shows up. As usual, the user interface dominates the actual intent of the program. -- -- bob,mon (bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu) -- "Aristotle was not Belgian..." - Wanda