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The 8088 saga is a serial escalation in mindblowing. I'm still working on the Bad Apple!! post (some scope creep happened) but 8088 domination is one of the crowning moments of win within that history as well.
The IBM PC is a neat machine and it's not its fault it has been holding back the IT industry to this day.
holy fuck
this is all of course impossible on the original IBM PC, which is why one of the YouTube videos on pouet is someone running it on their unmodified hardware to show it works perfectly
I’m about to see if I can find anything myself, but do you happen to know if they described their techniques anywhere? cause I can’t even begin to imagine how you’d make a CGA graphics adapter of all things do any of this
for mph they did, I haven't seen anything to the same level for 5150 as yet but also I haven't really gone digging
also
holy fuck
yeah that was about my reaction too
edit: the 8088 mph post. I think 5150 was a refinement of the mph techniques? e.g. that post has references to how they achieve wider colour. worth asking them, I guess
For anyone inclined, Open Watcom runs on anything and DosBox-X makes 8080 / CGA use pretty painless, so you can feel how slow this machine is.
That demo is witchcraft.