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The document outlines the BIOS Service INT 10H for video display control, detailing various functions such as setting video modes, cursor management, scrolling, and character display. It also includes assignments for assembly language programming tasks that involve string manipulation and display techniques. The content is intended for a Microprocessor Lab for BE Electronics students at Pulchowk Campus.

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Lab9 BIOS Services-1

The document outlines the BIOS Service INT 10H for video display control, detailing various functions such as setting video modes, cursor management, scrolling, and character display. It also includes assignments for assembly language programming tasks that involve string manipulation and display techniques. The content is intended for a Microprocessor Lab for BE Electronics students at Pulchowk Campus.

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Microprocessor Lab for BE Electronics @ Pulchowk Campus

Lab 9: Assembly language programming using BIOS Service INT 10H


BIOS Service INT 10H
BIOS provides interrupt service 10H for video display control.
INT 10H also has many functions like INT 21H, and some of them are given below. The
function number of the service is to be loaded in register AH and the other registers are loaded with
the data as required by the function before interrupt call.

BIOS Service INT 10H


Fun. No. Description
00H Set video mode. Load the required mode in AL. This operation also clears the screen.
01H Set cursor size. To set cursor vertically set the register CX as:
CH (bits 4-0): starting scan line
CL (bits 4-0): ending scan line
02H Set cursor position anywhere on a screen according to row:column coordinates. Set
the registers as follows:
BH: page number (0 is the default), DH: row, and DL: column.
03H Return cursor status i.e. to determine the present row, column and size to the cursor.
Store the page number in BH.
The operation leaves AX and BX unchanged and returns these values:
CH: Starting scan line CL: Ending scan line
DH: Row DL: Column
05H Select the page that is to be displayed. We can create different pages and request
alternating between pages.
06H Scroll upward of lines in a specified area of the screen. Displayed lines scroll off at
the top and blank lines appear at the bottom. Setting AL to 0 caused the entire screen
to scroll up, effectively clearing it. Setting a nonzero value in AL causes the number
of lines to scroll up. Set the following registers as:
AL: Number of rows (00 for full screen) CX: Starting row, Column
BH: Attribute of pixel value DX: Ending row, Column
07H Scroll down screen. Scrolling down the screen causes the bottom lines to scroll off
and blank lines to appear at the top. It works the same as function 06H, except the
fact that this operation scrolls down. Set the following registers as:
AL: Number of rows (00 for full screen) CX: Starting row, Column
BH: Attribute or pixel value DX: Ending row, Column
08H Read character and its attribute at cursor from the video display area. Before calling
interrupt, set the page number in the BH register.
09H Display a specified number of characters at cursor according to the given attribute.
Set the registers as:
AL: ASCII character BL: Attribute or pixel value
BH: Page number CX: Count
The count in CX specifies the number of times the operation is to repetitively display
the character in AL.
0AH Display character at cursor. The difference with 09H is that function 09H sets the
attribute whereas function 0AH uses the current value.
AL: ASCII character BL: Pixel value (graphics mode only)
BH: Page number CX: Count
0BH Set the color palette. The value in BH (00 or 01) determines the purpose of BL
BH = 00: Select the background color, where BL contains the color value in bits 0-3
(any of 16 colors).
BH = 01: Select the palette for graphics, where BL contains the palette (0 or 1).

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Microprocessor Lab for BE Electronics @ Pulchowk Campus

0CH Display a selected color (background and palette) in graphics mode. Set the registers
as:
AL: Color of the pixel CX: Column
BH: Page number DX: Row
0DH Read pixel dot to determine its color value. For this set page number in BH, column
in CX, and row in DX. The operation returns the pixel color in AL.
0EH Monitor is used as a terminal for simple displays in test and graphics modes. For this
set AL by the character to display, and BL by the foreground color.
0FH Get current video mode. The operation returns the values as:
AL: Current video mode AH: umber of screen columns
BH: Active video page

Assignments:

1. Write an assembly language program to read a string (having 60 characters at max.) as an input
from the user, and display the string at the center of the clear screen.
2. Write an assembly language program to scroll a window from row 5, column 20 to row 20,
column 60 with a reverse video attribute. Then locate the cursor at row 12, column 30. And
display a string as “Programming in Assembly Language is Fun”.
3. Write an assembly language program that takes a string (having 24 characters at max.) from the
user and display each character at the center of each line.
4. Write an assembly language program that takes a string (having 14 characters at max.) as an
input from the user and scrolls a window of size 20×20 at the center of the screen. Then display
the string at the center of the scrolled window. (You can choose the color attribute yourself).
5. Write a program that reads a string from the user and displays each word in a new line
diagonally from upper left towards bottom right in a clear screen. If the string is “Programming
in Assembly Language is Fun”, it should be displayed as:
Programming
In
Assembly
Language
is
Fun

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