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After a month, I am again interested in osdev and i continued my real mode os.

One month ago i asked in the forum about a pointer to video memory. I didn't get the answers i wanted so i investigated for myself and i found this:



This pointer is based in the _es value: lets suppose that es is 0xb800 and the pointer is 3, so it will point 0xb803.

This works in Turbo C++ 3.0...

Bye

When the CPU wants to translate a Real Mode address to its physical address, it will shift the segment value to the left 4 bits and then add the offset to it. So the 3rd byte (0..2 = 3) in the Video RAM is:

(0xB800 << 0x04) + 0x0002 = 0x000B8000 + 0x0002 = 0x000B8002.