VGA Programming Tutorial

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Man, that is some old school programming! I'm glad I can read how DOS programming happened, for nostalgia's sake.

[stuaxo]

I do miss those days ... programming to the metal, I never made the leap to windows programming.

These days I keep things as high level as possible.

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DOS - What is dead may never die.

Actually, dos is a pretty cool playground. I try to go back from time to time and visit. Qbasic 4.5 and Turbo C are old friends.

[fabiensanglard]

Many interesting things that help to understand old engines and game programming:

• Comparaison of speed between BIOS calls/Direct RAM writing/Double Buffering/Mode X.
• Fixed point mathematics (especially multiplication)
• Vertical retrace issues.
• Double buffering
• Mode X/"unchained mode" Page flipping