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2025 2

  1. A Lost IBM PC/AT Model? Analyzing a Newfound Old BIOS
  2. Those Secret Fonts from the ISA-16 PS/2 Models (Again)

2024 3

  1. Missing IBM PC Localization Disks & ROMs
  2. Name the Non-Standard PC Code Page
  3. Game Font Forensics

2023 4

  1. Astro-Dodge's Dirty Video Tricks
  2. Raising the Bar for IBM PC/XT Emulation: MartyPC
  3. More CGA CRTC Glitching: HD6845(R) vs. MC6845
  4. Old Chips, New Glitches: the CGA/CRTC "Phantom" VSync

2022 2

  1. The IBM 5153's True CGA Palette and Color Output
  2. About the PS/2 30-286's Hidden VGA Fonts

2021 5

  1. 'Space Covidders' Goes to the Arcade?
  2. Safe CRT Monitor Shipping: IBM 5153 Makes it through DHL!
  3. Simulating NON-CRT Monitors with FFmpeg: Flat Panel Displays
  4. Simulating CRT Monitors with FFmpeg (Pt. 2: Monochrome CRTs)
  5. Simulating CRT Monitors with FFmpeg (Pt. 1: Color CRTs)

2020 4

  1. More Font Updates: Oldschool PC Pack, Flexi IBM VGA
  2. Git Push
  3. Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack v2.0 Released
  4. Auto-Injecting Files into an Active PCem/86Box Machine

2019 2

  1. Fontraption (a VGA Text Mode Font Editor)
  2. De-uglifying 40-Column Text Games for VGA

2018 5

  1. TVCGAFIX Utilities - Adjust CGA Output for TV
  2. Taking Decent Photos of your CRT TV Screen
  3. Flexi IBM VGA Font: a Scalable Take on Text Mode
  4. So Long, Blogspot
  5. Steel Survivor: an IBM XT Tale

2016 8

  1. Happy 35th birthday, IBM PC!
  2. Keen 4 Mystery Code Demystified
  3. Yet another 16-color CGA makeover: Keen 5
  4. Dopefish goes NTSC: Commander Keen 4 Composite CGA Patch Notes
  5. Olympiad: IBM Prototype Fonts Unearthed
  6. So-called "IBM" Freeware Games from the Early '80s
  7. The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack (v1.0)
  8. Windows (and ClearType) vs. Truetype Fonts with Embedded Bitmaps

2015 6

  1. BigBlue Terminal: An Oldschool Fixed-Width Pixel Font
  2. Getting Optimal Apple ][ Screenshots w/NTSC Emulation
  3. 101 Monochrome Mazes: Why Not Color?
  4. 8088 MPH Final: Old vs. New CGA (and Other Gory Details)
  5. New Design
  6. CGA in 1024 Colors - a New Mode: the Illustrated Guide

2014 2

  1. Arithmetic Games Set 1: a Peek into One of the First-Ever IBM PC Games
  2. Shamus Keyboard Woes Explained

2013 3

  1. The Mazes of Shamus - IBM PC Version
  2. Using Photoshop as a CGA Bitmap Paint Program
  3. Power-On Self-Test...