load bitmap?

[daydreamer]

Hi
wonder how to load bmp or any file in dos?
instead of tedious write lot of data in db?
Magnus

[jj2007]

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include \masm32\MasmBasic\DosBasic.inc
  Init
  Make$ My$, 60000 ; let's create a fat buffer
  FileRead My$, "dd.bmp"
  .if Carry?
Print "FileRead ERROR", 13, 10
  .else
Print Str$(ax), ' bytes read from "dd.bmp" - contents:', 13, 10, 10, "["
Print My$, "]", 13, 10, 10
  .endif
  Inkey "Now you got the bitmap in My$, what will you do with it?" ; wait for a key
  Exit ; ExitProcess, DOS style
end start

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30758 bytes read from "dd.bmp" - contents:

[BM&x]

Now you got the bitmap in My$, what will you do with it?

Source, exe and bmp file attached.

[avcaballero]

These examples read and display bmp from file and from resource and display it (windows)

http://abreojosensamblador.epizy.com/?Tarea=5&SubTarea=4&Lang=1&nivel=0&padre=0&accion=0

Theese other do the same in dos:

http://abreojosensamblador.epizy.com/?Tarea=1&SubTarea=28&nivel=0&padre=0&accion=0

[daydreamer]

thanks
more kinda want to know the different ways of int21h

[tenkey]

You might want to get Ralf Brown's Interrupt List: http://masm32.com/board/index.php?topic=7823

[daydreamer]

found this
http://spike.scu.edu.au/~barry/interrupts.html
https://www.philadelphia.edu.jo/academics/qhamarsheh/uploads/Lecture%2021%20MS-DOS%20Function%20Calls%20_INT%2021h_.pdf