[HN Gopher] Number-Colour-Phoneme Associations: From IBM CGA Col...
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       Number-Colour-Phoneme Associations: From IBM CGA Colours to
       Mnemonic Systems
        
       Author : susam
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2025-03-01 12:32 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | 2mlWQbCK wrote:
       | Screenshot shows program in GW-BASIC 3.23 from 1988. I tried it
       | in GW-BASIC 1.0 (the version Microsoft released with a free
       | license a few years ago) and it worked as expected. It also
       | worked well in PC-BASIC.
       | 
       | https://gitlab.com/tkchia/GW-BASIC
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       | https://robhagemans.github.io/pcbasic/ (or just pip install
       | pcbasic)
       | 
       | The debug-commands seemed to work fine with the debug included by
       | default in DOSBox-X, but I was too lazy to input all of the
       | digits. I never had any idea how to use debug, so I learned
       | something new here in addition to some more things about
       | mnemonics.
        
         | susam wrote:
         | The DEBUG.EXE example in my post demonstrates using the E
         | command to enter bytes directly into video memory. While that's
         | certainly one way to use DEBUG.EXE, I'd say it's not the most
         | typical use case.
         | 
         | Back in the day, I primarily used DEBUG.EXE to disassemble
         | existing executables or assemble small programs from scratch.
         | It almost felt like "scripting" in assembly language. If you're
         | curious, I wrote a couple of blog posts in 2002-2003
         | documenting how I used to do this:
         | 
         | * https://susam.net/programming-with-dos-debugger.html
         | 
         | * https://susam.net/editing-binaries-in-dos.html
         | 
         | I'd love to know if others have similar experiences!
        
       | alwa wrote:
       | This delights me.
       | 
       | I've worked with Soundex, which uses a rather different set of
       | digit/consonant associations, but the "major system" Susam uses
       | was new to me. Apparently [0] it has centuries of pedigree--with
       | the specific pattern Harry Lorayne used dating to the turn of the
       | 19th century, laid out by a delightfully named Mr. Von Feinaigle.
       | 
       | [0] https://artofmemory.com/blog/history-of-the-major-system/
        
       | watersb wrote:
       | I used to have an association between screen colors and numbers
       | from another Microsoft Basic, for the Tandy Color Computer.
       | 
       | Long since forgotten them. There weren't that many.
       | 
       | I love the mnemonic devices, though.
       | 
       | A friend of mine changed the way she teaches English sounds to
       | non-native speakers; she and a partner developed the Color Vowel
       | Chart.
       | 
       | https://www.colorvowel.com/interactive-chart
       | 
       | I don't know if that is relevant to this neat article, but I do
       | enjoy the use of color to reinforce conceptual mappings.
        
       | bitwize wrote:
       | Sounds like a great way to get induced synaesthesia. What a neat
       | little system. Playing with ideas in the purest sense.
        
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