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Kids, I am old enough to have written a DOS TSR in 8086 assembler! Sadly, you likely have no idea what I'm talking about. Suffice to say, I understand this arti
by allenbrunson 15y ago
Kids, I am old enough to have written a DOS TSR in 8086 assembler! Sadly, you likely have no idea what I'm talking about. Suffice to say, I understand this article completely.
- Jacked 15y agoHey, you and me both, brother! Some of the most fun I've had programming was writing an assembly TSR that would scrape the screen buffer of the PAL BBS game Flash Attack (I think that was name of it, anyway) to calculate the firing angles for me. I also tied into the keyboard hooks so that I could build an entire decoy base with a single key press (just some simple buffer stuffing) along with a cool little "death blossom" attack. Ahhh, those were the days ;)
- thibaut_barrere 15y agoI'm 34 and old enough too, yet I wouldn't call people 'kids' :)
- Hitchhiker 15y agoI am 29 now. Guilty of the crime of TSR at 13. I officially declare everyone who's commenting on this thread brothers including the brave soul who visited us from the world of Ruby.
- thibaut_barrere 15y agoIt hasn't got to be one or another. I'm visiting from the world of Ruby too, yet I was deep in masm/tasm, 386 dos extenders back then :)
- Hitchhiker 15y agonod. My latest vice is Python. Oddly enough, still doing low-level stuff thanks to WDK.
- seclorum 15y agoMy first professional coding job was to write a DOS TSR for a modem driver. It was the first TSR I wrote, worked well, and .. set me off on over two decades of experience in embedded systems and now mobile development. Without the pain of INT13 behind me, I doubt I'd have gotten so far.
- Hitchhiker 15y agoYou are taking me on a nostalgia road.. most fun a bunch of us schoolies had via (sub) function(s) AH=05h-07h .. ;-)
- geoffschmidt 15y agoRepresent, yo.