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The DOS SDK

A thing I have been working on, on and off, for many years now, is a set of headers and helper routines for programming DOS machines directly on the hardware in assembly and C. As you may recall, my earliest … Continue reading

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Latch onto this, it’s all relative

Right, a somewhat cryptic title perhaps, but don’t worry. It’s just the usual 8088-retroprogramming talk again. I want to talk about how some values in PC hardware are latched, and how you can use that to your advantage. Latched values … Continue reading

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