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 Post subject: Printing a string directly to the video memory
PostPosted: Sun Dec 18, 2016 10:31 am 
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Hi !
I made a function to print the SI register on the screen directly through the video memory.
It's weird but this function only write the first character ...
Code:
writeCharacterToVideoMemoryFunc: ; al=character ah=attributes cx=offset(byte)
mov esi, 0xB8000
add si, cx
mov byte [esi], al
mov byte [esi+1], ah
ret

writeSIToVideoMemory: ; cx=offset
mov al, [si]
cmp al, 0
je end
mov ah, 00001111b
call writeCharacterToVideoMemoryFunc
inc si
add cx, 2d ; inc cx 2 times
jmp writeSIToVideoMemory
end:
ret

I call it with this code :
Code:
mov si, MSG
mov cx, 40d
call writeSIToVideoMemory
jmp $

MSG: db "OK !", 0

I run it in protected mode.
Thanks !


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 Post subject: Re: Printing a string directly to the video memory
PostPosted: Sun Dec 18, 2016 10:34 am 
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Your WriteCharacter routine trashes SI, which is going to cause problems.


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 Post subject: Re: Printing a string directly to the video memory
PostPosted: Sun Dec 18, 2016 11:09 am 
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I'm dumb.
Thanks


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