Category : Pascal Source Code
Archive : INFOS155.ZIP
Filename : PAGE_05.INF
Output of file : PAGE_05.INF contained in archive : INFOS155.ZIP
Active video subsystem: The type of video system you are using that moment.
Inactive video: If one system is a VGA, you can have an inactive board.
Initial video mode: The mode the computer will boot up in. Often set by a
DIP switch or CMOS setting.
Current video mode: The current text mode.
Current display page: There can be up to 8 pages of text (0 through 7).
Most often, this will be 0.
Video buffer offset and size: The amount of memory needed to display a page
of text, and the address into the video
segment where the page starts.
Active display port: This is the port used to control the video.
CRT mode register: A value used to setup the video controller.
Current palette: Another value used by the controller.
Colors: A block containing each of the 16 possible color values.
Current colors: The colors that the BIOS is currently set to. (INFOPLUS
usually bypasses the BIOS, so the colors won't be the same
as what you see on the screen.)
Text rows and columns: The current screen size.
Scan lines/character: How many scan lines make up each character.
Cursor scan lines: Which lines of the above count that are used for the
cursor.
Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!
This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.
But one thing that puzzles me is the “mtswslnkmcjklsdlsbdmMICROSOFT” string. There is an article about it here. It is definitely worth a read: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mtswslnk/