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Enable/Disable hardware blinking provided by text mode on CGA/EGA/VGA cards
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moesoha commented Dec 10, 2023

Prebuilt EXE can be found here.

  • BLINK 0 disables blinking, can use 16 colors on background in text mode
  • BLINK 1 enables blinking, can use 8 colors on background in text mode

Tested with CGA/EGA/VGA cards on 86Box (emulator) with 8088.

Tested with CGA (HD6845) and VGA (Cirrus Logic GD5429) cards on Book8088 (a laptop with 8088 made in 2023).

Tested with VGA (Chips & Technologies F65555) card on Toshiba Satellite Pro 480 CDT (a laptop with Pentium w/ MMX 233MHz).

There are more details in my blog (Chinese only).

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