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Yeah I definitely agree - sub-forums should be visible on mobile (from the main forum list). I did a bit of experimenting, and fortunately this can be done with a few changes in the CSS. The key seems to be modifying the existing rule for screen widths less than 650 pixels (logical, not...

I should've tried harder... rolled another loop, so this one's a bit shorter: 10 OPTION BASE 1 ! match str/array pos. 20 D = DISPLY(1) ! set US charset 30 LET EVEN$ = RPT$(CHR$(20)&" "&CHR$(8)&" ", 16) ! 64 (32 chars+even...

Nice, that'd be appreciated! I think a picture of the original CRT would be preferable - flat screens tend to have fuzzy interpolation when not at their native resolution, so the dot patterns may be harder to establish. But either way would work for me, whatever is more convenient. The BASIC...

(EDIT: ha, I must be losing it -- the bitmaps for ¼, ¾ do appear in the ROM... so these characters don't belong in the 'missing' list, but I can't edit my original post anymore.) Yeah, the ones in your set are all good - the bad one is in the other bitsavers set...

Hm, that's interesting - the CRT section of the service manual only mentions a read-only character generator (as the part that is addressed by the character codes in the row buffer, to fetch the dot patterns which are then sent to the video circuits). On the other hand, what you say would make...

I was looking into the available docs and firmware for this system (http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/system23/), to try and figure out how this thing handles text display. Naturally I don’t have one of these – I’m just a certified nutter for bitmap font stuff, but the System/23 is particularly...

Somehow that doesn't surprise me one bit. Par for the course, as I suspect others would realize if they're familiar with the individual in question. Internet clout is a hell of a drug. ;)

Autodesk Animator! I'm still kicking myself for not keeping all the stuff I made with that... For the OP, I should add: GIF looping was an extension of the format by Netscape, around 1996 or so. Animated gifs weren't widely used or supported before that point, so 8088 players are going to be...

^ Yeah, that's the one... although of course that's an idealized (pixel-to-outline) rendering, sharper than a CRT. When I did that I had a nice hi-res screen photo as a reference; I can't seem to find it anymore, but this video has some pretty clear footage: . Even on a CRT, that's extremely...

Depends on how modern is 'modern', but gcc-ia16 is a thing. https://github.com/tkchia/gcc-ia16

On one hand, those are artifacts of digital culture worth preserving, and the source code for some of these could be interesting. On the other hand, there has to be some special punishment for whomever named one disk "Indiana Jokes and the Laff Crusade".

This. Although as long as you're taking care to read the port yourself, you can mask off IRQ1 at the PIC via port 21h, ensuring that INT 9 will not be invoked until you re-enable IRQ1.

That was from NEC - I don't believe Wang's APC had anything to do with the NEC series, despite the initials (which stand for "Advanced Professional Computer"). :) Seems be a 286 machine that's not quite AT-compatible: https://archive.org/details/PC-Mag-1985-10-01/page/n33/mode/2up?view=theater

From the Star Control II manual, p25: "AT-class" - won't work on an 8088, or at the very least it wasn't tested on one. Even if it ran, you'd probably have a pretty miserable game experience.

As vwestlife writes those are indeed ANSI escape codes, but ANSI.SYS wasn't around until DOS 2.0 in 1983; and even then it couldn't be used with the original Deadline, since that one was a booter (i.e. loads itself with no DOS present, hence no device drivers). So while ANSI.SYS might work with...

Maybe I'm having an extreme case of delayed ignition, but it seems that a lot of content from the old pre-migration forums is completely MIA. To be clear, I'm not referring to the separate issue of broken links in older threads (where the content may still exist, but cannot be accessed with the...

Cycle-counting sounds like overkill for this purpose. Why not poll the status register at 3DAh for bit 0 (retrace) to detect the overscan period of each scanline, and make your changes then? Many parts of 8088 MPH and Area 5150 use this method for CGA as well (others do require cycle-counting...

Huh - that's weird, considering that the ColorPlus card appears to use a real 6845, and no custom video BIOS extension. I assume they had to map the chip to the same port, and couldn't play too many tricks with address decoding or with the data lines, else the normal BIOS video modes wouldn't...

I've been using DEBUGX/Enhanced Debug for a while, seems like the feature set is pretty similar.

A different idea I guess - it's more of a link aggregator where you can submit/discuss interesting material from elsewhere... not exactly like the typical discussion forum (although we do have this Link Exchange section here), or a Q&A/help site like Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange. As I see it...