i did this:

_AH = 0;
_AL = 13;
geninterrupt(0x10);

and i know i set the screen to mode 13 because my mouse cursor(this is in a mouse program) showed up as a cursor, and the text is all blocky(8x8). however, when i tried to set a pointer to 0xA000, which (i believe)is the address of the screen, and change a pixel...
*(pointer_to_screen + x + 320 * y) = color
... it did nothing. is there a way to do this? ive tried doing it the way the tutorials said in the tutorial section, but it didn't work. can anyone help? maybe there's a way to plot pixels w/ interrupts?
im sure someone out there knows, so im thanking you for your help in advance.

Maybe you haven't declared the pointer to A000:0000 correctly... Here's some example code which will show you how to do it under Turbo C++.
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#include
#include
#include

typedef unsigned char byte;
typedef unsigned int word;

byte far* vga = (byte far *) 0xA0000000L;

void PutPixel(word x, word y, byte color)
{
*(vga+(y<<8)+(y<<6)+x) = color;
}

void SetMode(word mode)
{
_AX = mode;
geninterrupt(0x10);
}

int main(void)
{
SetMode(0x0013);

srand((word) time(NULL));

for (int i = 0; i < 256; i++)
PutPixel(rand()%320, rand()%200, rand()%256
);

getch();

SetMode(0x0003);

return 0;
}
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Good Luck!

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