2026-06-16 07:48 UTC
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@dasfrottier@mastodon.social 2026-06-16 08:18
@kernellogger@hachyderm.io My school back in the 90ies had a bunch of – then outdated – Commodore PC 10 machines. Those had Hercules graphics and amber monochrome screens. I remember the weird resolution, painting lines, circles etc with Borland Pascal.
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@nickzoic@aus.social 2026-06-16 08:53
@kernellogger@hachyderm.io Damnit that was my dream setup for a while there, you could do cool graphics mode shit on the main VGA card and still read the debugging output on the HGA. (I don't quite remember how that worked now but anyway, that's why people loved them)
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@ncopa@fosstodon.org 2026-06-16 10:26
@kernellogger@hachyderm.io I do remember this because it was also in my first computer! #Hercules monochrome was my first meet with programming graphics. was address 0xb000 or something.
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@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange 2026-06-16 11:51
@kernellogger@hachyderm.io Even odder was the colour version of the Hercules standard. Quite rare but there were some around.
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@musevg@23.social 2026-06-16 12:38
@kernellogger@hachyderm.io Noooooo!1! Noooo, they can't do THAT! That's a sacrilege! What will they slaughter next? OMTI controllers for ESDI disks?!