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I should be able to do some testing for you. I don't think I've ever seen the 160x100 display mode - what is the advantage over the 160x200 display mode? CommodoreJohn hit it on the head -- the 160x100 mode also works on a regular CGA card because it only needs 16K of video memory to work -- as opp...

I'm closing in on finishing of my retrochallenge "winter warmup" -- or at least my original stated goals. (I kicked it into overdrive today)... but need some people to test out my code. You can read up on what I'm doing on my blog: http://my.opera.com/deathshadow/blog ... and download the ...

thanks to things like pointers and weak typing. I hear the pointers one a lot -- and I wonder how the devil people think vanilla pascal doesn't have pointers. DEC Pascal had them (first one I ever used back in '79), Alcor on the Trash-80 had them (though it was not a unique type -- you just referen...

What's going to mess with you on using the soundcard itself is the lack of a DMA controller on the Jr. If software detects it as a sound blaster and tries to use it's DMA driven wave output, it's going to send you off to never-never land. You WOULD be ok though in terms of Adlib sound since that is ...

Still, given my druthers, I'll take a questionable language that was designed for flexibility and real-world use from the ground up over a questionable language that was hacked into flexibility and usability contrary to the entire spirit of the original project ;) That's an arguement that you'll he...

The only issues I have with it relate to the default skin declaring everything in PX -- absurdly undersized PX at that; but that's my complaint about 99.99% of phpBB installs anyhow... well, that and it's phpBB. Even the littlle "enlarge/shrink" fonts thing in the corner doesn't bump it an...

Not to bump a seven month old post, but my latest blog entry is related -- which Is part of my Winter-warm up for the 2011 retro challenge. http://my.opera.com/deathshadow/blog/ For those of you who don't want to click through to the blog, the meat of it being my current video card detection routine...

What are you developing? If that was directed at me, that would be my retrochallenge winter warm-up entry. http://my.opera.com/deathshadow/blog/2011/01/09/cga-160x100x16-graphics-explained Which is actually what led me to this site -- was searching for information about tandy sound AND on detecting...

However, Borland really made it much easier and certainly as fast as anything out there with their Turbo Pascal series. I bet you I can do anything you can program in C just as well and as fast in Turbo Pascal, and the code will be a heck of a lot more readable 8-) Which is why when programming for...

Interesting! I never thought of using read because traditionally one needs to send a carriage return after inputing a value. That's readLN. read just does whatever value size you pass. I was not aware that read could retrieve the result of KeyPressed. Part of the issue here is that the TP3 manual s...