BrokenThorn Entertainment

Finally found it at http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/betriebs ... _vfd_.html

The URL is dead from my location? Does anyone know of another download location or another piece of software that I can use?

That was my understanding of it as well, it would pretty amazing for the BIOS to be the mediator of all known devices and future unknown devices, and to do advanced operations with a "basic" input/output system.

Thanks for providing confirmation.

I'm trying to settle a debate with a friend of mine about how the OS communicates with the hardware (get the CD tray to eject, disable the ethernet card, play sound, etc). He says it's through the BIOS, always. I shot that down because everything I've read tells me this can only be done in real mode...

Here's the link, but I somehow doubt that your English is good enough to truly understand it, abuashraf's instructions were extremly clear.

http://www.brokenthorn.com/Resources/OSDevIndex.html