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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   
      
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