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S1D13503
13503BIOS.COM Utility
X18A-B-003-05
Issue Date: 01/01/29
Note that the port address must be the same as the physical address set on the S5D13503 evaluation board.
Example:
13503BIOS d=color g=256 i=8 m=128 p=310 t=single x=320 y=240 f=2
Comments
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13503BIOS can be used in conjunction with a Monochrome Display Adapter (mono) card. The standard DOS
command MODE MONO will switch to the monochrome card and the DOS command MODE CO80 will switch to
the LCD panel.
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13503BIOS emulates mode 3, but any program that attempts to write directly to video memory, bypassing the video
BIOS, will not display correctly.
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13503BIOS can be used in conjunction with a VGA BIOS. In this case all TTY output will be displayed on the VGA
monitor.
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When the S1D13503 video memory is specified as 64K bytes, the S1D13503 video memory will reside at D000h to
DFFFh. For 128K bytes of S1D13503 video memory, the memory will reside at C000h to DFFFh.
Program Messages
ERROR: panels greater than 640 pixels not supported.
More than 640 horizontal pixels has been specified for the panel in the command line.
ERROR: panels greater than 480 lines not supported.
More than 480 vertical lines has been specified for the panel in the command line.
ERROR: invalid port specified.
The port address (
p
) must be specified in the format 3x0 in the command line. The range is 300h to 370h in 10h increments.
ERROR: not enough memory for panel.
The panel specified is too large to run in 16 gray shades mode. Select 4 gray shades instead.
ERROR: Video memory and VGA BIOS memory conflict.
Both the S1D13503 video memory and the VGA BIOS are trying to use the memory at location C000h to CFFFh.
ERROR: only 64k or 128k memory allowed.
An invalid value has been specified for memory size (
m
) on the command line.
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