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Reminds me of the old "booter" games on the PC that used their own kernel instead of MS DOS [1] It would be fun to see how far one could go with modern hardwar
by nsxwolf 13y ago
Reminds me of the old "booter" games on the PC that used their own kernel instead of MS DOS [1]
It would be fun to see how far one could go with modern hardware. Writing your own driver for a modern graphics card sounds absolutely terrifying (and fun).
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_booter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_booter
- Intermernet 13y agoThis one was awesome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Rogers:_Planet_of_Zoom#Planet_of_Zoom_video_game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Rogers:_Planet_of_Zoom#Pla... CGA graphics(!), and pushed the monophonic speaker on a basic XT further than anything I'd seen at the time. Unplayable on "turbo" mode :-)
- nsxwolf 13y agoI have a version of that on cartridge for my TI-99/4A!