Make a BIOS interrupt call, using MSVC6. I''ve tried the Win32 Console and standard project settings, but both result in a Fatal Exception. I also can''t find the _int86() function, anywhere. Can anyone help??

__asm int 0x????

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I tried that, but it produces Fatal Error...

Is there a Windows and MSVC6 friendly interrupt function??

Would linking external asm work ???

I don''t have a pure Win32 asm compiler, and I was hoping to be able to do it with Inline asm...

I never needed to call an interrupt in win32 so far, but according to msdn you be able to call an interrupt with inline asm.
but what interrupt are you trying to call?
are you sure its meant to be used in windows?

nik

Well... I was trying to call int 0x33, the mouse interrupt...

This is Win32, not DOS. Forget all that obsolete junk about making interrupt calls. It doesn''t work.

What do you *really* want to do? To get the current mouse position use GetCursorPos or wait for a WM_MOUSEMOVE message.

-Mike

So you''re saying it''s not possible to call any BIOS interrupts from MSVC6? Why are they obsolete? or at least, why are we shielded from them?

I wanted to make a DOS program for Command.exe, but also, I took time to learn them, and now it seems I can''t use them.

Windows is (mostly) a 32 bit OS. When it boots up, it switches into 32 bit protected mode. At this point it overwrites the old Interrupt Descriptor Table (IDT), and you are not able to use the BIOS interrupts anymore.

Besides, why would you want to? The whole point of having an OS is to be shielded from details like that.