Legacy apps in Windows/OS X was Re: Old MS-DOS & Win Software

8 Dec 2005

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    Consider on Windows XP that you can still run the
following code:
 	mov	cl,9
 	mov	dx,offset HWMes
 	call	5
 	mov	cl,0
 	call	5  Huh?  Do you mean this?
 MOV  AH, 9
 MOV  DX, HWMes
 INT  21h
 MOV  AH, 0
 INT  21h    No, he meant what he wrote.  It's the CP/M compatibility layer
built into
 MS-DOS.  Address 5 of the PSP (Program Segment Prefix) contains a long jump
 to MS-DOS, and uses CL for the function code instead of AH. 
. . . and, you need to move the ADDRESS of the message into DS:DX, NOT the
first two bytes of the message into DX.
MOV DX, OFFSET HWMes
you can also end the program with a jump (or call) to location 0,
or even a RET without CALL (there's a 0 on the stack),
since the PSP starts with CD 20 (INT 20h)

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Legacy apps in Windows/OS X was Re: Old MS-DOS & Win Software