Re: [Freedos-devel] segment override prefix for XLAT instruction

2024-07-01 Thread Daniel Monteiro via Freedos-devel
Hello Bernd. I'm far from an expert in the subject, but I'm in the middle of reading Programming Boot Sector Games, by Oscar Toledo. In this book, Mr. Toledo explains on page 49 about CS XLAT (no mention about AL in the code, but the text makes it clear it uses AL) precisely what you mention in yo

Re: [Freedos-devel] Boot sector games, was: Re: segment override prefix for XLAT instruction

2024-07-01 Thread Daniel Monteiro via Freedos-devel
Answering both Bernd and Eric here. > Does the book cover more of these rather exotic instructions? Then perhaps this would be a nice reading for me too. There's a whole chapter called Advanced Instructions, detailing how to achieve interesting results with some more "exotic" instructions. But ho