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Hey guys,

I'm trying to figure out how to set the foreground and background of font in a 16 bit assembly program.

So far this is what I have...

TITLE First 16-bit Program					(main.asm)

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INCLUDE Irvine16.inc

.data
msg BYTE "My String",0


.code
main PROC
	mov ax,@data
	mov ds,ax      ;these two lines required for 16-bit programs
	


 ;mov dh,10
 ;mov dl,5
 ;call gotoxy

mov ax,0
mov al,11101100b  ;Text to red, background to yellow
call settextcolor

mov edx,offset msg
call writestring

mov    ax, 0941h
mov    bx, 001ah
mov    cx, 0001h
int    10h


		mov ah,4ch  ; terminate process
		mov al,0    ; return code
		int 21h
main ENDP


END main

My question is how to set the background to just the string of characters. Right now it is setting my whole entire console to a yellow background. All I want is the string highlighted with yellow.

How do I do this?

Thanks...

-Mallard