ASCII without ANSI

[Kerem HADIMLI <waster at iname dot com>]

Hello all.
Well, i need to find a way to change screen mode (to 80x50 text) without using
ANSI in gcc, in a way that will work under both Win32 and *nix. Is there a
way, or library to do that? I guess i can do it with asm, but the problem is,
i'm not used to gcc's style of inline-asm, but WatcomC, and i cannot find a
way to convert the following WatcomC routine i wrote to gcc, and test if it
works:

void setvgamode(char mode)
{
_asm{
  xor ah,ah
  mov al,mode
  int 10h
}
}

Also, i will directly access to 0xA0000h for writing to screen without using
ANSI, but i guess i won't have a problem with that, just a memcpy().

If anyone knows a library for this, or any way to change screen mode to
another text mode without using ANSI, please help.

Regards,
Kerem HADIMLI

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