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Is it possible to detect a CGA card on an IBM PC 5150 by write/reading the Motorola 6845?
I am trying to programatically detect the CGA card on old IBM 5150-ish PCs.
The Paku Paku game source code doesn't directly detect it. The strategy is to detect VGA, EGA, Tandy, PCJr, etc etc, then if ...
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How to use the "darker" CGA palette using x86 Assembly?
For those of you retro developers out there, I am having a hard time figuring out how exactly to select the "darker" color palette in 320x200 CGA mode. Here's what I have so far:
setup_cga_graphics:
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