Number-Colour-Phoneme Associations: From IBM CGA Colours to Mnemonic Systems

Re:Number-Colour-Phoneme Associations: From IBM CGA Colours ... by 2mlWQbCK on Monday March 03, 2025 @12:11PM (#43244084)

Screenshot shows program in GW-BASIC 3.23 from 1988. I tried it in GW-BASIC 1.0 (the version Microsoft released with a free license a few years ago) and it worked as expected. It also worked well in PC-BASIC.

https://gitlab.com/tkchia/GW-BASIC

https://robhagemans.github.io/pcbasic/ (or just pip install pcbasic)

The debug-commands seemed to work fine with the debug included by default in DOSBox-X, but I was too lazy to input all of the digits. I never had any idea how to use debug, so I learned something new here in addition to some more things about mnemonics.

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Re:Number-Colour-Phoneme Associations: From IBM CGA Colours ... by susam on Monday March 03, 2025 @12:50PM (#43244570)

The DEBUG.EXE example in my post demonstrates using the E command to enter bytes directly into video memory. While that's certainly one way to use DEBUG.EXE, I'd say it's not the most typical use case.

Back in the day, I primarily used DEBUG.EXE to disassemble existing executables or assemble small programs from scratch. It almost felt like "scripting" in assembly language. If you're curious, I wrote a couple of blog posts in 2002–2003 documenting how I used to do this:

* https://susam.net/programming-with-dos-debugger.html

* https://susam.net/editing-binaries-in-dos.html

I'd love to know if others have similar experiences!

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