I have a project I am doing in assembly. I am making a kahoot style quiz game in x86 assembly, running it in DOSBox.
I made the entire thing with no graphics but I need to make it with graphics so I created a screen of the place I want to display the question but i can't switch from video mode to text mode and keep my video mode.
Does anyone have any ideas to what I can do?
I am trying to keep it as simple as possible.
I tried moving screens and printing but it didn't work.
i can't switch from video mode to text mode and keep my video mode
You don't have to switch from graphic mode to the text mode in order to write a text. BIOS can use the built-in English fonts in graphic modes, too:
yali PROGRAM Format=com
MOV AX,0x0013 ; Graphic mode 320*200 and text 40*25.
INT 0x10 ; Set graphic videomode.
MOV SI,Question ; Text string to write.
CLD ; Ascending.
SUB BX,BX ; BH=videopage number.
MOV DH,5 ; Row.
MOV DL,4 ; Starting column of the text.
MOV CX,1 ; How many times to write each character.
Next:MOV AH,0x02 ; Function SET CURSOR POSITION.
INT 0x10 ; Set cursor position DH,DL.
LODSB ; Get a next character to AL.
CMP AL,0 ; Text end of text.
JE End ; End of string.
MOV AH,0x0A ; Function WRITE CHARACTER.
MOV BX,0x0007 ; BH=Videopage number,BL=color.
INT 0x10 ; Write character.
INC DL ; The next column.
JMP Next
End: RET
Question DB "My question:",0
ENDPROGRAM