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;COLORINIT EQU 03H ;Value to initialize color screen (80x25)
COLORINIT EQU 01H ;Value to initialize color screen (40X25)
;
; Now, describe our own segment
;
SETSCRN SEGMENT ;Set operating segment for CODE and DATA
;
ASSUME CS:SETSCRN,DS:SETSCRN,ES:SETSCRN,SS:SETSCRN ;All segments
;
ORG 100H ;Begin assembly at standard .COM offset
;
MAIN PROC NEAR ;COM files use NEAR linkage
JMP BEGIN ;And, it is helpful to put the data first, but
; ;then you must branch around it.
;
; Data used in SETSCRN
;
CHANGELOC DD EQUIP ;Location of the EQUIP, recorded as far pointer
MONOPROMPT DB 'Please press the plus ( + ) key.$' ;User sees on mono
COLORPROMPT DB 'Please press the minus ( - ) key.$' ;User sees on color
Several things are illustrated on this page. First, in addition to titles,
the assembler supports subtitles: hence the SUBTTL pseudo-op. Second, the
PAGE pseudo-op can be used to go to a new page in the listing. You see an
example here of the DSECT-style segment in the "SEGMENT AT 40H". Here, our
our interest is in correctly describing the location of some data in the
BIOS work area which really is located at segment 40H.
You will also see illustrated the EQU instruction, which just gives a sym-
bolic name to a number. I don't make a fetish of giving a name to every
single number in a program. I do feel strongly, though, that interrupts
and function codes, where the number is arbitrary and the function being
performed is the thing of interest, should always be given symbolic names.
One last new element in this section is the define doubleword (DD) instruc-
tion. A doubleword constant can refer, as in this case, to a location in
another segment. The assembler will be happy to use information at its
disposal to properly assemble it. In this case, the assembler knows that
EQUIP is offset 10 in the segment BIOSDATA which is at 40H.
SUBTTL -- Perform function
PAGE
BEGIN: CALL MONOON ;Turn on mono display
MOV DX,OFFSET MONOPROMPT ;GET MONO PROMPT
MOV AH,PRTMSG ;ISSUE
INT DOS ;IT
CALL COLORON ;Turn on color display
MOV DX,OFFSET COLORPROMPT ;GET COLOR PROMPT
MOV AH,PRTMSG ;ISSUE
INT DOS ;IT
MOV AH,GETKEY ;Obtain user response
INT KBD
CMP AL,'+' ;Does he want MONO?
JNZ NOMONO
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CALL MONOON ;yes. give it to him
NOMONO: RET
MAIN ENDP
The main code section makes use of subroutines to keep the basic flow sim-
ple. About all that's new to you in this section is the use of the BIOS
interrupt KBD to read a character from the keyboard.
Now for the subroutines, MONOON and COLORON:
SUBTTL -- Routines to turn monitors on
PAGE
MONOON PROC NEAR ;Turn mono on
LES DI,CHANGELOC ;Get location to change
ASSUME ES:BIOSDATA ;TELL ASSEMBLER ABOUT CHANGE TO ES
OR EQUIP,MONO
MOV AX,MONOINIT ;Get screen initialization value
INT SCREEN ;Initialize screen
RET
MONOON ENDP
COLORON PROC NEAR ;Turn color on
LES DI,CHANGELOC ;Get location to change
ASSUME ES:BIOSDATA ;TELL ASSEMBLER ABOUT CHANGE TO ES
AND EQUIP,COLOR
MOV AX,COLORINIT ;Get screen initialization value
INT SCREEN ;Initialize screen
RET
COLORON ENDP
SETSCRN ENDS ;End of segment
END MAIN ;End of assembly; execution at MAIN
The instructions LES and LDS are useful ones for dealing with doubleword
addresses. The offset is loaded into the operand register and the segment
into ES (for LES) or DS (for LDS). By telling the assembler, with an
ASSUME, that ES now addresses the BIOSDATA segment, it is able to correctly
assemble the OR and AND instructions which refer to the EQUIP byte. An ES
segment prefix is added.
To understand the action here, you simply need to know that flags in that
particular byte control how the BIOS screen service initializes the adapt-
ers. BIOS will only work with one adapter at a time; by setting the equip-
ment flags to show one or the other as installed and calling BIOS screen
initialization, we achieve the desired effect.
The rest is up to you.