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How to get BIOS date (for beginners)

Title: How to get BIOS date? (for beginners) Question: Making an system analisys program. Need to get BIOS date? Try this... Answer: // returns BIOS date function BIOSDate: String; begin result := string(pchar(ptr($FFFF5))); end; There's a problem in WinNT: this arquiteture doesn't allows to direct access memory pointers, as this codes do. To get BIOS date, i think, you'll need to create a VxD...