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My screen attribute function fails
November 05, 2007 11:57AM

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I want to write a generic clear screen function. Could anyone advise?

clrscr:	mov ax, 0600	;service scrolls up the screen
	mov bh,49	;hopefully light red foreground on blue background
	mov cx,00	;starting row/column
	mov dx,184	;ending row/column
	int 10		;call dos
	ret

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Anonymous User

Re: My screen attribute function fails
November 05, 2007 09:47PM

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clrscr:	mov ax,0600h	;service scrolls up the screen
	xor bx,bx
	mov bh,30h	;attempt to change the colour
	int 10h		;call dos and kiss your system good bye 
	ret