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|    Samuel Fleischer to Wolfgang Ehrhardt    |
|    Re: detection of character-amount that f    |
|    08 Dec 04 21:16:52    |
      From: LiveSucks@hotmail.com              "Wolfgang Ehrhardt" wrote       [...]       > >Is it possible to detect the amount of characters which fit       > >into one line of the screen without using the CRT-unit (and       > >also without writing character by character to the screen       > >until the x-coordinate switches back to 1 again)?       > Try reading from the BIOS data area       > screncolums = memw[$40:$4a];       >       > Hope that helps              Yes. It does. It works perfect.       Thank you very much.              All the best              Sam              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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