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
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