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I'm writing a bootloader for my OS (GRUB wasn't worth the trouble), and i need some real mode example code (preferably NASM) for FAT12 (dir function + file reading type stuff). I can't find any good example code (which I perfer to straight up documentation, i guess i understand it in code better than english lol. you can pick apart the code, play with it, helps me learn ). Thanks in advance.

Mr. John S. Fine's bootf02 boot sector for 32-bit protected mode operating systems on FAT12 file systems: http://my.execpc.com/~geezer/johnfine/

jloc is also there, and you need that to build bootf02 (for "picking it apart.")

Good luck