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Re: Bios Data Area

Posted by Kory Spansel on 2000-11-21

> 1. The bit you test has different meanings for XT and AT PCs (i.e. it
> doesn't mean anything on an XT). You might want to check the architecture
> first. The only way I know to do this is check the byte at F000:FFFE; on
> most ATs it is set to FC hex, altho not all manufacturers stick to this
> standard. :-(

My code is working now, for some magical reasoning it works now.  I scrapped
the original code and wrote a test program and it works fine, I was probably
testing the wrong bit, or some dumb thing like that.

Thanks for the reply,
Kory