old 8088 system course++

9000 VAX wrote: I second this. Not to appear juvenile, but I've learned more about assembler from cracking games and rewriting 286 code to run on 8088 than I ever did while in school. What a happy day it was to load a commercial program with slow screen updating code (excessive redundant checks for retrace when only one check was necessary) and patch it so that it was swift on the 8088. :-) Working on my Athlon, I do everything in Windows and rely on utilities to get things done. Working on my 8088, I write my own utils (sometimes in assembler). It's just a different mindset. And while there are things I would never attempt on the 8088 (such as MPEG-2 compression), it is just as fast for most common-denominator tasks like writing text, programming, etc. -- Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/ Help our electronic games project: http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ A child borne of the home computer wars: http://trixter.wordpress.com/