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First post, by markot

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I'm trying to get the ASCII characters in Turbo Pascal for the second half of the character set.

The characters 0-127 are located at address F000:FA6E but how exactly should I access the characters 128-255?

Is there any working Turbo Pascal source code with example how to do it?

I need to get the characters working in a program I'm making in Turbo Pascal.

Reply 2 of 3, by markot

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No, to be more exact, I want to get the address of the second table.

http://www.ctyme.com/intr/rb-0158.htm

For example if using interrupt 10h with AX=1130h and BH=04h, I'm excepting to get a table with characters 128-255, but it is just some garbage that I get on the screen.

But with BH=03h I am able to get the characters 0-127 correctly.

I will be using these fonts in own graphics modes without Borland BGI.

Reply 3 of 3, by Tiido

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You're better off reading the charset out of the video BIOS directly or from the memory in video card where the charset gets stored.
https://wiki.osdev.org/VGA_Fonts

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