Tag Archives: retro

Another adventure in downgrading: .NET 4.8 to .NET 4.6.2

Posted on November 12, 2022 by Scali

Over the past few days I’ve had some fun with a codebase again. Similar to the time when I tried to get my Direct3D engine running on very early CPUs and GPUs. Except that codebase was in C++, and this … Continue reading →

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Retro programming, what is it?

Posted on May 20, 2022 by Scali

As you may have seen, in the comment section of my previous two articles, a somewhat confused individual has left a number of rather lengthy comments. I had already encountered this individual in the comments section of some YouTube videos … Continue reading →

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Running anything Remedy/Futuremark/MadOnion/UL in 2020

Posted on December 25, 2020 by Scali

There has always been a tie between Futuremark and the demoscene. It all started with the benchmark Final Reality, released by Remedy Entertainment in 1997. Remedy Entertainment was a gaming company, founded by demosceners from the legendary Future Crew and … Continue reading →

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More PC(jr) incompatibilities!

Posted on January 6, 2018 by Scali

The race for PC-compatibility Since the mid-80s, there have been many clones of the original IBM PC. IBM themselves also made new-and-improved versions of the PC, aiming for backward-compatibility. DOS itself was more or less a clone of CP/M, and … Continue reading →

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The Covox years

Posted on November 28, 2017 by Scali

I have covered various early sound solutions from the DOS/8088 era recently, including AdLib, Sound Blaster, PCjr/Tandy’s SN76489 chip, and the trusty old PC speaker itself. One device that has yet to be mentioned however, is the Covox Speech Thing. … Continue reading →

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Any real-keeping lately?

Posted on December 11, 2016 by Scali

The 5-year anniversary of my inaugural ‘Just keeping it real’-article came and went. Has it been that long already? It’s also been quite some time since I’ve last written about some oldskool coding, or even anything at all. Things have … Continue reading →

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PC-compatibility, it’s all relative

Posted on December 15, 2015 by Scali

Update 21-12-2015: I have updated some of the information after testing on an AT with old Intel 8259A chips, and added some extra information on EISA and newer systems. I would like to pick up where I left off last … Continue reading →

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Fixing Genesis Project’s GP-01

Posted on August 9, 2015 by Scali

Shortly before our release of 8088 MPH at Revision 2015, another 8088+CGA production surfaced at Gubbdata 2015: This production was GP-01, by Genesis Project. One the one hand we were happy to see more people targeting the 8088+CGA platform. On … Continue reading →

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8088 MPH: How it came about

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Scali

Well, you’ve already seen the demo in my previous post. And Trixter, reenigne and VileR have already covered most of the technical details in these articles: 8088 MPH: We Break All Your Emulators 1K colours on CGA: How it’s done … Continue reading →

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Just keeping it real at Revision 2015

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Scali

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 →

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