Off to work... sorta...
Jan. 30th, 2003 07:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolfwings...actually I'm going down the street to monitor a connection while we run a buncha tests on a video-conferencing rig over one of our satellite connections.
At least it pays as well as anything else. =^.^= And at least I get a nice `net connection to play on while the test's being run. :-)
At least it pays as well as anything else. =^.^= And at least I get a nice `net connection to play on while the test's being run. :-)
Why... for chaos and entropy, of course!
Date: 2003-01-30 07:48 am (UTC)Lets me render ~640x200 16-colour graphics on anything from a CGA card on up, by abusing a little-known port command to only show the top two character rows of the 8-pixel-tall font. So I'm limited in which pixels can be on or off, and only two colours per 8x2-pixel area... but it's surprisingly effective even today. :-)
So I'm playing with updating the effect to work on modern computers, just so I can update my NES emulator to run using this funky 'video mode' in real-time, allowing me to show almost a full-resolution NES in colour in text-mode. :-)
Re: Why... for chaos and entropy, of course!
Date: 2003-01-30 07:51 am (UTC)