Re: [Freedos-devel] Boot sector games, was: Re: segment override prefix for XLAT instruction

2024-07-01 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
Hi, > On Jul 1, 2024, at 4:01 PM, Daniel Monteiro via Freedos-devel > wrote: > > Answering both Bernd and Eric here. > > > Does the book cover more of these rather exotic instructions? Then perhaps > > this would be a nice reading for me too. > > There's a whole chapter called Advanced Instr

Re: [Freedos-devel] Boot sector games, was: Re: segment override prefix for XLAT instruction

2024-07-01 Thread Daniel Monteiro via Freedos-devel
Answering both Bernd and Eric here. > Does the book cover more of these rather exotic instructions? Then perhaps this would be a nice reading for me too. There's a whole chapter called Advanced Instructions, detailing how to achieve interesting results with some more "exotic" instructions. But ho

[Freedos-devel] Boot sector games, was: Re: segment override prefix for XLAT instruction

2024-07-01 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-devel
Hi Daniel, I'm far from an expert in the subject, but I'm in the middle of reading Programming Boot Sector Games, by Oscar Toledo. That sounds like a fun topic, which types of games does he cover? Do all games fit into a FAT boot sector, or at least in 1 sector? I once wrote a boot sector PO