x86 programming for Ms Dos Computers in CGA , EGA and VGA
This page is Under Construction.... 'Learn 8086 is planned for 2020'
| In these tutorials, we'll take a look at the early basic
machines, and learn how we can use Assembly to write games that can
be used in MSDos via DosBox! We'll cover 3 graphics modes...
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CGA color Palette
| Palette 0 Dark | Palette 0 Bright |
Palette 1 Dark | Palette 1 Bright | |
| 0 | ||||
| 1 | ||||
| 2 | ||||
| 3 |
EGA color Palette
The EGA system uses 16 colors - it's 320x200 can only use a palette of 16 colors (the same colors!)
Each color has a logical number from 0-16, and a Hardware number (used for palette definitions) from 0-63
| 0 - 0 | 1 - 1 | 2 - 2 | 3 - 3 | 4 - 4 | 5 - 5 | 6 - 20 | 7 - 7 |
| 8 - 56 | 9 - 57 | 10 - 58 | 11 - 59 | 12 - 60 | 13 - 61 | 14 - 62 | 15 - 63 |
Screen Layouts
CGA is a 2bpp screen mode, it's memory is at B800:0000h
EGA use 4 bitplanes, it's address is A000:0000... to change the bitplanes we need to OUT to 03C4h
VGA is a 8bpp screen mode, it's memory is at A000:0000h
| Bits | ||||||||||||
| Screen Mode | Bits per pixel | Pixels per byte | Address | Plane Mask | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| CGA - 4 | 2 bpp | 4 | B800:0000h | b1 | b0 | b1 | b0 | b1 | b0 | b1 | b0 | |
| EGA - 13 | 4 bitplanes | 8 | A000:0000h | out 03c4h,0102h | p0-b7 | p0-b6 | p0-b5 | p0-b4 | p0-b3 | p0-b2 | p0-b1 | p0-b0 |
| out 03c4h,0202h | p1-b7 | p1-b6 | p1-b5 | p1-b4 | p1-b3 | p1-b2 | p1-b1 | p1-b0 | ||||
| out 03c4h,0302h | p2-b7 | p2-b6 | p2-b5 | p2-b4 | p2-b3 | p2-b2 | p2-b1 | p2-b0 | ||||
| out 03c4h,0402h | p3-b7 | p3-b6 | p3-b5 | p3-b4 | p3-b3 | p3-b2 | p3-b1 | p3-b0 | ||||
| out 03c4h,0F02h | All-b7 | All-b6 | All-b5 | All-b4 | All-b3 | All-b2 | All-b1 | All-b0 | ||||
| VGA | 8bpp | 1 | A000:0000h | b7 | b6 | b5 | b4 | b3 | b2 | b1 | b0 | |
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