Subj : Re: ms-dos text mode tricks
To   : Aurelius
From : hollowone
Date : Sat Dec 30 2023 10:13:18

 Au> A lot of weird tricks were done by directly accessing the BIOS directly,
 Au> or the VGA card's registers.

Yep, that's how I did it. The effect I wanted to achieve was actually quite easy. I just did not know that indexed palette can be also modified in text modes. Funny discovery as I can provide completely different 16 foreground, 8 bg colors than standard palette.

Which again is totally not usable in the BBS world, but interesting concept to experiment in just plain text mode MS-DOS demo.

-h1

.... Xerox Alto was the thing. Anything after we use is just a mere copy.

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