3 ms·
The OS itself was very basic. Learning to program things like TSRs, dealing with HIGHMEM, BASIC and BASIC assemblers vs C and other tools. It was a complicate
by jmspring 5y ago
The OS itself was very basic. Learning to program things like TSRs, dealing with HIGHMEM, BASIC and BASIC assemblers vs C and other tools. It was a complicated environment by the restrictions, but those restrictions when explored taught one a lot about programming.
Michael Abrash's graphics programming tutorials - https://www.jagregory.com/abrash-black-book/ https://www.jagregory.com/abrash-black-book/
It was a great environment to learn in. I spent time there, on the Amiga, and other systems. I honestly love how easy and powerful systems are now, but miss swap meets and the like for meeting up, talking hardware, software, etc.
- ubermonkey 5y agoDoing a TSR under DOS was an exercise in trying to make a system do something that it really, really, really wasn't designed to do. It was educational to try, but fundamentally not a path likely to result in anything but a painful educational experience.
- rvbissell 5y agoI thought DESQview was pretty cool. But none of my nerd friends appreciated it that much. Until I showed them they could hide _Bards_Tale_ or _Sopwith_ from the game-hating highschool librarian with a simple hot key.