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Absolutely! Very powerful and fun when used to do some 320x200x256 mode graphics! https://marktheunissen.com/posts/tech/2006-06-03-denthor-of-asphyxia-s-graphi

Absolutely! Very powerful and fun when used to do some 320x200x256 mode graphics! https://marktheunissen.com/posts/tech/2006-06-03-denthor-of-asphyxia-s-graphics-tutorials/files/denthor-asphyxia-grant-smith-vga-trainers.txt https://marktheunissen.com/posts/tech/2006-06-03-denthor-of-...

pavlov 1mo ago
"Denthor? Now THAT's a name I've not heard in a long time..." Man. It's kind of crazy to think that I, a Finnish 13-year-old, was reading these ASCII tutorials written by someone in South Africa in those pre-WWW days. The good content just somehow spread across the globe. People copied these files on floppy disks and uploaded them to BBS's on 2400 bps modems, and after a few months they had been around the world. The inefficient and expensive distribution was actually a powerful filter for content quality. Today any stupid disinformational shit goes viral around the world in two minutes.
- rzzzt 1mo ago
  Friendly reminder that PC-GPE is still online!
  - bananaboy 1mo ago
    Years ago I worked with Mark Feldman who put together PC-GPE! I did a bit of a double take and fanboyed a bit when he started because I had spent so much time reading it.
- bananaboy 1mo ago
  I read the denthor tutorials back in the day! So good! I think I used to get them via email on a bbs that had an internet gateway. It was all very clunky, just a terminal account, I think it didn’t even have slirp
- yardshop 1mo ago
  I think I got that tutorial through either Compuserve, or Usenet via Delphi the information service (years before Borland Delphi). My early stepping stones to the internet!
- moosedev 1mo ago
  I read those tutorials as well! Around the same age, in '96 or '97, when I first got online, in the UK. And it might have been someone's "translation" of them into C, although I do recall reading the Pascal originals as well. Namedropping another contemporary reference, I probably downloaded them from the Hornet Archive or a mirror. They were a major step along the short but satisfying road to my first 3D starfield using Borland C++ (acquired via a magazine coverdisc). I felt so l33t.
andrewshadura 1mo ago
This was not supported in 3.0. You could however include inline machine code, pre-assembled elsewhere or by hand.
- sorokod 1mo ago
  Elsewhere like in turbo assembler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Assembler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Assembler
  - andrewshadura 1mo ago
    Or in DEBUG. I didn't have tasm at the that time, so I used DEBUG.
- yardshop 1mo ago
  Thanks for the correction. I must have been on TP5 at that point and lost track of the distinction over the years.

pavlov 1mo ago

"Denthor? Now THAT's a name I've not heard in a long time..." Man. It's kind of crazy to think that I, a Finnish 13-year-old, was reading these ASCII tutorials written by someone in South Africa in those pre-WWW days. The good content just somehow spread across the globe. People copied these files on floppy disks and uploaded them to BBS's on 2400 bps modems, and after a few months they had been around the world. The inefficient and expensive distribution was actually a powerful filter for content quality. Today any stupid disinformational shit goes viral around the world in two minutes.

rzzzt 1mo ago
Friendly reminder that PC-GPE is still online!
- bananaboy 1mo ago
  Years ago I worked with Mark Feldman who put together PC-GPE! I did a bit of a double take and fanboyed a bit when he started because I had spent so much time reading it.
bananaboy 1mo ago
I read the denthor tutorials back in the day! So good! I think I used to get them via email on a bbs that had an internet gateway. It was all very clunky, just a terminal account, I think it didn’t even have slirp
yardshop 1mo ago
I think I got that tutorial through either Compuserve, or Usenet via Delphi the information service (years before Borland Delphi). My early stepping stones to the internet!
moosedev 1mo ago
I read those tutorials as well! Around the same age, in '96 or '97, when I first got online, in the UK. And it might have been someone's "translation" of them into C, although I do recall reading the Pascal originals as well. Namedropping another contemporary reference, I probably downloaded them from the Hornet Archive or a mirror. They were a major step along the short but satisfying road to my first 3D starfield using Borland C++ (acquired via a magazine coverdisc). I felt so l33t.

andrewshadura 1mo ago

This was not supported in 3.0. You could however include inline machine code, pre-assembled elsewhere or by hand.

sorokod 1mo ago
Elsewhere like in turbo assembler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Assembler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Assembler
- andrewshadura 1mo ago
  Or in DEBUG. I didn't have tasm at the that time, so I used DEBUG.
yardshop 1mo ago
Thanks for the correction. I must have been on TP5 at that point and lost track of the distinction over the years.