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gecko on June 19, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: X86 assembly doesn’t have to be scary

I might be missing something, but you're still relying on the BIOS to have the graphical representation of those letters. Right?

messe on June 19, 2018 [–]

As far as I remember, the default VGA font is stored on the graphics card ROM and copied into the video memory by that same onboard ROM, not the motherboard BIOS, so no I don't believe so. I may be mistaken.

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