Something that consumes resources, breaks compatibility, and makes ridiculous demands on hardware manufacturers, just to control you and line the pockets of software and media giants? They shouldn't be allowed to call Vista an "operating" system... Stay away from it, guys.

Some things I'd suggest... a range of genres and eras, here; some may not be to your taste, of course... Little Big Adventure and LBA2 (otherwise known as Relentless and Twinsen's Odyssey respectively), the first two Oddworld games, Raptor: Call of the Shadows , SimCity , some of the other Sim games …

By the way, I had a hard time making it, I took a screenshot of the browser window and used the MS Paint color sampler to grab the background color. For some strange reason, it didn't work - it looked the same but after uploading it here the color was different :disapproving: had to make the …

Well, Intel CPUs have shared L2 cache, so when program switches cores it can pull all the data from L2 (which might have to do anyway even if it stayed on the same core, depends on what ran in between) if it's lucky. On AMD CPU, it would have to pull all the data from system memory again. I'm not …

DOSBOX uses SDL and SDL internally uses threads: http://www.libsdl.org/faq.php?action=listentries&category=2#12 AFAIK, 99% of the time, running two different threads on separate cores (as opposed to running one at a time on a single core) will increase performance. i believe if a program is split …

Mine is THE Avatar. 'nuff said. Picture taken from Ultima 7. Thanks to Exult Studio 😀

and who was that guy with "I.Q. of 6000 gym teachers" or whatever it was? Wasn't it Holly, the ship's computer, from Red Dwarf?

What Jorpho said. Top left and bottom right notes are both Es.

Did you mean... ORG 100h MOV AX, 0957h MOV CX, 01h MOV BX, 0Ah INT 10h RET (You did say you wanted to save space...) NASM needs all numbers to start with a digit (i.e. 3h is allowed but you must use 0Ah instead of Ah). If you prefer C syntax then NASM also supports the 0x... syntax. Here is a …

Well, my post in the DOSBOX devel forum got removed, and I'll be the first to admit it didn't belong there (heck, I said so in the post). Apologies to whichever moderator's time I wasted. Moving on... all I really wanted to say was that a while ago, I built a computer that was quite a DOS box. Here …

From a DOS programming perspective, mouse clicks can be dealt with in two ways: Poll INT 33,3 (Get mouse position and button status) Watch the state of the buttons (pressed or released) and where the pointer happens to be. For a click to be registered, this interrupt must indicate the button is down …