MS Dos Development

 Mode X Madness
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After learning about Mode 13h last time, I’ve been digging about in the ancient tomes of wisdom and discovered Mode-X. Let’s make a PC’s VGA card do odd things it was never designed for.

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 Fixing the PC BIOS Boot Screen Recreation
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Thanks to @hobbified on YouTube, making the EPA logo look correct was quite straight forward…

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 Let's recreate a 90's PC BIOS Boot Screen
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Because why not, it looks simpler than it really is and we’ll get to fall down a rabbit hole trying to draw the Energy Star logo.

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 Nostalgic DOS Development Part 2 - Writing our first programs
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 Nostalgic DOS Development - Setting up the machine
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The modern world is far too complex. Software has become piles of APIs stacked on top of each other, running on virtual machines inside browsers. Even the CPUs themselves are too complex for anyone to understand.

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