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a1k0n on April 4, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: C-based Virtual Machine for Notch's DCPU-16

Oh yeah. 0xB8000. (You'd use a segmented address of 0xB800:0000, but the "segment" part that would be in 16-byte "paragraphs", so the logical "flat" address was equivalent to 0xB8000).

simcop2387 on April 4, 2012 [–]

That was it! Boy does that bring back memories. Some bad ones, some good ones.

I can only imagine how fast putting text on the screen can be if you did it with some of the vector instructions in a modern processor....

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