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Tag Archives: IBM
Putting the things together
So, over time I have discussed various isolated things related to 8088-based PCs. Specifically: Using the latched property of the 8253 programmable interval timer to be able to adjust the interval without any jitter/skew, so you can use it as … Continue reading
Posted in Oldskool/retro programming
Tagged 8088, chiptune, demoscene, IBM, James Pearce, lo-tech, lo-tech.co.uk, MS-DOS, oldskool, PCjr, PSG, retroprogramming, Skate or Die, SN76489, sound, Tandy
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Commander Keen 4: now in 16-colour composite CGA!
Perhaps you have already heard it through the grapevine, but just to be sure, I’d like to mention that VileR (of 8088 MPH fame)has patched the Keen 4 code and redid all the graphics to make the most of the … Continue reading
Posted in Oldskool/retro programming, Software development
Tagged CGA, Commander Keen, IBM, oldskool
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8088 MPH: The polygons
The last effect in 8088 MPH to be discussed is the polygon renderer. As already mentioned earlier, it is not a regular polygon renderer, but actually a ‘delta-renderer’: it does not rasterize pixels directly, but for each scanline, it uses … Continue reading
Posted in Oldskool/retro programming, Software development
Tagged 5150, 5160, 8088, 8088 mph, ASM, assembly, CGA, dither, flatshade, IBM, IBM PC, IBM PC/XT, Intel, lambert, optimize, polygon, rasterize, span buffer, video memory
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8088 MPH: Sprites? Where we’re going, we don’t need… sprites!
I would like to give some technical background information on the sprite part in 8088 MPH, but before I do that, I want to discuss the music and the musicians, as they did not seem to have gotten very much … Continue reading
Posted in Oldskool/retro programming, Software development
Tagged 8088, 8088 mph, Amiga, assembly, bobs, CGA, IBM, MS-DOS, PC, Sprites
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Just keeping it real at Revision 2015
The demo I have made together with Trixter, reenigne, VileR, coda, virt and Phoenix has won the oldskool compo at Revision 2015: I will discuss some of it in more detail at a later time. Trixter has already done a … Continue reading
Posted in Oldskool/retro programming, Software development
Tagged 8088, 8088 mph, CGA, IBM, oldskool, retro, retroprogramming, Revision, Revision 2015
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