> > > > i just went over to my crap computer in Dubai and tried my program and none of the graphic modes worked.

> > > Find out why they didn't work and repair it.

> > hmmm. good idea. so anyway i went to look at my code and some old vesa docs and OH MY GOD i can't believe how screwed up my code was and how in a million years it actually worked first time on my other computer when it's so randomly wrong. anyway i changed it and it still doesn't work so i give up. i'm going back to my old code. the vesa docs i used were explained so crappily, it didn't even tell me how long each piece of data in the structure was and i totally interpreted it wrong.

> I think you looked at the wrong docs.
> They worked fine (and still do) for me and many others years ago.

yeah i did use crap docs on my new computer. but now i just found some old docs on my crap computer that tell you exactly how big each data is and even their offsets if you can't be bothered to count off yourself. i'm still having trouble though. this part of my code is the only place where i don't understand everything coz some of it is stuff djgpp recomends you just stick in there. apparently you have to do all these magical functions to pointers before you can use them. i can't understand it. i'm supposed to get a pointer to the list of vesa modes but is that number the actual number or is it a trick coded one? man programming sucks.

i think my code worked on my other computer coz rather than read through the list of vesa modes i read through almost my entire memory including the vesa list and luckily a value the same as the delimiter was not found before.