[fpc-pascal]Reading the color attributes from the screen

James_Wilson at i2.com James_Wilson at i2.com
Mon Aug 20 17:33:03 CEST 2001


> (VGA-)Textmode has the following memory layout:
> Each cell of the screen is represented by two bytes, the first
> is the color attribute the second is the ascii character value.
> The cells are stored one after another in a linear fashion from
> left to right, line by line from top to bottom.
> [snip]

> Should do the trick (everything untested).

Untested, perhaps, but certainly enough for me to see what I was missing. 
Thanks for the help...

Jim
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