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cool, that would be really nice of you! we can compare the results to pcem .. Landmark 2.0 & 6.0 are available from TopBench page, Norton Sysinfo & CheckIt are interesting too, don't know if the run on 8088 .. found the Schneider OEM Msdos 3.3 image at Winworldpc homepage .. long time ago I really wanted to have an Euro PC, but never got one .. will try to do some prods for it, since it's a nice well defined system .. virtually I added an Adlib soundcard to the expansion slot ..
added on the 2018-12-05 06:14:47 by Asato Asato
compared today PCem Schneider Euro PC with a result from topbench and some other 8088 machines for which you find some Landmark benchmarks in the internet .. seems that pcem v13 is about 25% faster than the real machines ..
added on the 2018-12-05 20:48:08 by Asato Asato


cool .. hm with PCem Landmark 6 shows the same result for CPU speed, which is a very accurate result! .. but chr/s is about 1049 chr/s while your machine has only 700 chr/s .. is it anything about hercules and cga?
added on the 2018-12-05 20:53:26 by Asato Asato
would be nice to see, if the benchmark results keep the same on different machines of the same type ..
added on the 2018-12-06 17:22:16 by Asato Asato
after a lot of time and quite hard work, I managed to finish a new intro for i286, this time pure textmode ...

Fairly Hires
added on the 2019-03-20 10:31:24 by Asato Asato
TheMechanist: Interesting, is it some trick with a modified font?
added on the 2019-03-21 11:43:23 by El Topo El Topo
basically it makes use of the programmable character definitions that was introduced with EGA if I remember correctly .. interestingly enough, this function never seems to have been used in intros for realtime effects .. it's very limited, but some effects, i.e. Star fields and a lot of dot based effects are possible ..
added on the 2019-03-21 17:24:05 by Asato Asato
Yo! by Future Crew from 1990 and my own 4k from 1995 uses textmode with a modified font. I also wrote a couple of BBS intros which changed the font and did some experiments that never ended up in anything.
added on the 2019-03-21 17:53:29 by neon neon
ah, okay, couldn't believe that nobody tried that before .. and there is a small Demo in the famous book "PC Intern" by Michael Tischer ...
added on the 2019-03-21 18:04:21 by Asato Asato
See also: StarPort BBS
And check out Textro for some nice wireframe stuff in textmode
added on the 2019-03-21 21:27:53 by britelite britelite
that's pretty cool, using wireframes was my first idea ... there are more prods using the char gen than I thought .. it's like in science - if you think you have a new idea, it's often just a lack of knowledge of literature :)
added on the 2019-03-22 06:12:21 by Asato Asato
Hi folks,

bought an NEC Powermate 286 Plus, build year 1989, with 12 MHz 80286 & 1 MB RAM, with built-in VGA .. announced for $2000 ...

It's a performance beast ;)

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So long
added on the 2019-12-16 15:09:06 by Asato Asato
Hi folks,

found a little gem in the vastness of the inet for all of you that like to use BASIC

TOKIWA BASIC Compiler

Yes, it's a real compiler with little overhead that produces small COM or EXE files ..

http://www.exmortis.narod.ru/comp_bas/tbc555f.zip
http://www.pofowiki.de/doku.php?id=software:diy:basic:tbc

So long
added on the 2020-11-19 12:55:27 by Asato Asato
For nearly perfect retro feeling when emulating old machines the crt should be emulated too (bye bye hires prods :)

Emulate 14" CRT IBM 8515
added on the 2021-03-05 11:30:48 by Asato Asato
mine has v20 too. what do you need?
8088 vs. V20
https://flic.kr/p/GmCFs7
https://flic.kr/p/FzmtoG

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