"Jasen Betts"  wrote:

>FP> VESA 2.0 in protected mode. Now, i am not sure that it is possible.
>FP> i used unit NewFrontier (v 6.0) with BP7 but the function 800 of DPMI
>FP> is not supported by the borland implementation.
>FP> i don't know how to create a selector with physical address base of
>FP> F8000000 and a size of 4M.
>FP> Anyone has some ideas ?
>
>NOPE, BP only does '286 protected mode ("16 bit"). so it's not real easy to
>access a selector pointed there 'cause 286 pro-mode only goes to 16Megs.
>of course you coule possibly get the EMS driver to re-map that range to
>somewhere inside the address space of the pascal prog.


Actually with a change to 2 variables, out of the box you can allocate
100+MB.  The variables relate to how much memory to allocate at a time
to a selector.
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