04-18-2021, 01:59 PM
Yeah, but firmware doesn't live in an EPROM anymore, it's just files in /lib/fimware so what's in one OS isn't in another.
I remember a big deal with the Apple II getting it to do something like scan the keyboard as it was refreshing dynamic RAM. And 6502 games written in assembly and how fast they were. I taught myself some 8088 assembly years later. And actually got so I could mix Turbo Pascal or C calling my assembly rouiines. Don't think I have any of it anymore. This was in DOS days, I wrote something that would do the rotating dash with -/|\| characters along one screen line, drop down a line, go across all of them and back up one end. A86 assembler but I also had a couple others. I hadn't learned about framebuffer graphics yet.
Gonna try my NumLock in mrfixit stretch, don't remember if it works or not.
I remember a big deal with the Apple II getting it to do something like scan the keyboard as it was refreshing dynamic RAM. And 6502 games written in assembly and how fast they were. I taught myself some 8088 assembly years later. And actually got so I could mix Turbo Pascal or C calling my assembly rouiines. Don't think I have any of it anymore. This was in DOS days, I wrote something that would do the rotating dash with -/|\| characters along one screen line, drop down a line, go across all of them and back up one end. A86 assembler but I also had a couple others. I hadn't learned about framebuffer graphics yet.
Gonna try my NumLock in mrfixit stretch, don't remember if it works or not.