Agemixer (20:41:00)
How many times we had to tweak autoexec.bat just to run certain demos.. and those worked only with barebones RAM setup, no MS "extended memory" think, well it varied from a demo to another

franz_opa (20:39:54)
yes, things like sound APIs probably need C or pascal typically

Agemixer (20:39:04)
colliding interrupts and how to handle them properly, with faulty chipsets etc

serpent (20:38:53)
INTEL OUTSIDE

mirrorbird (20:38:40)
i bet the DOS/4G people made a lot of $

Agemixer (20:38:11)
franz: Yeah whatta hazy term.. but complex memory management and the pc setups differ too much from one to another, i/o areas, shadowmem, whatever sth like that and not to mention the sound card handling and interrupts

franz_opa (20:37:49)
2nd reality uses turbo pascal for glue code but effects are ASM

franz_opa (20:36:57)
in MS-DOS things like video mode selection etc. is done in Assembly even if the program is otherwise C...

franz_opa (20:35:28)
Agemixer: "CPU and stuff"?

serpent (20:35:21)
but then got the pentium 300 orwhat it was where you could in BIOS just put it to 450

Second Reality (Future Crew DS-10 Remix)

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