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I remember having lots of fun with C as a teenager. This was in the early 90s. We wrote games and demos using mode 13h (320x200 1 byte/pixel) in DOS (thus pret

I remember having lots of fun with C as a teenager. This was in the early 90s. We wrote games and demos using mode 13h (320x200 1 byte/pixel) in DOS (thus pretty much bare metal). Those were the days. I think it was the perfect way to get started with programming :-)

jdiez17 13y ago
You can still play around with computers like that! In fact, just `pacman -S qemu` and you're set! Mode 13h is awesome. I wrote a little quine[1] in x86, using mode 13h. [1] https://github.com/jdiez17/quines/tree/master/bootable_quine https://github.com/jdiez17/quines/tree/master/bootable_quine