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xab9 on May 26, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: 30 years later, QBasic is still the best

What I really loved is that how easy it was to write directly to the video buffer (320x200 256), it was ultra fast and I could even make simple games and shiny stuff :) Not sure if it's possible to do that outside dosbox anymore.

DanBC on May 26, 2018 [–]

It was really easy!

I made a resistor ladder DA convertor, and then wrote data to the parallel port with a few simple BASIC "OUT" instructions.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sci.electronics.basi...

https://hackaday.com/2014/09/29/the-lpt-dac/

Some GB emulators (NO$ at least) used this for sound, and it was quite good.

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