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Re:3D animation with sound in 64 bytes of assembler by raverbashing on Saturday October 05, 2019 @05:07PM (#21167966)
One sad part of the obsolescence of "classical" BIOS is the loss of access to basic functionality like simple graphics modes.

Of course it's one downside among many upsides but I think there's a point to having a simpler interface to allow stuff like this

With 64 bytes you can't even initialize a window on Linux or Windows.

Re:3D animation with sound in 64 bytes of assembler by squarefoot on Monday October 07, 2019 @06:56AM (#21179387)
This is where small embedded devices come handy. Any small cheap board with video output can be turned into a powerful demo (and games) playing machine, at 1/50 or less the cost of hardware in the demoscene era.