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		malkia on April 1, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: List of April Fools' Day Announcements QEMM! Protected Mode! Unreal Mode! TSR! Ralph Brown's Interrupt List! Oh man! Had so much with my friends while in high-school trying to figure out what kind of weird graphics mode this cool game called "Scorched Earth" used... It wasn't 320x200 :)

dandrews on April 1, 2015 | [–]

That's "Ralf"!

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ralf/

vgabios on April 1, 2015 | | [–]

Mode X and related: programming VGA registers to do what int 10h mode 13h didn't offer. Bonus points for flipping video pages or cycling the palette as to not cause tearing.

schoen on April 1, 2015 | [–]

"From Hell's heart I stab at thee..."

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