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• [2025 Nov 05]A Lost IBM PC/AT Model? Analyzing a Newfound Old BIOS
• [2025 Jul 26]Those Secret Fonts from the ISA-16 PS/2 Models (Again)
• [2024 Oct 06]Missing IBM PC Localization Disks & ROMs
• [2024 Aug 07]Name the Non-Standard PC Code Page
• [2024 Feb 11]Game Font Forensics
• [2023 Oct 20]Astro-Dodge's Dirty Video Tricks
• [2023 Jul 05]Raising the Bar for IBM PC/XT Emulation: MartyPC
• [2023 Apr 22]More CGA CRTC Glitching: HD6845(R) vs. MC6845
• [2023 Mar 21]Old Chips, New Glitches: the CGA/CRTC "Phantom" VSync
• [2022 Jun 11]The IBM 5153's True CGA Palette and Color Output
• [2022 Jun 05]About the PS/2 30-286's Hidden VGA Fonts
• [2021 Nov 28]'Space Covidders' Goes to the Arcade?
• [2021 Apr 08]Safe CRT Monitor Shipping: IBM 5153 Makes it through DHL!
• [2021 Mar 03]Simulating NON-CRT Monitors with FFmpeg: Flat Panel Displays
• [2021 Feb 03]Simulating CRT Monitors with FFmpeg (Pt. 2: Monochrome CRTs)
• [2021 Jan 10]Simulating CRT Monitors with FFmpeg (Pt. 1: Color CRTs)
• [2020 Dec 01]More Font Updates: Oldschool PC Pack, Flexi IBM VGA
• [2020 Sep 16]Git Push
• [2020 Jul 13]Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack v2.0 Released
• [2020 Apr 15]Auto-Injecting Files into an Active PCem/86Box Machine
• [2019 May 22]Fontraption (a VGA Text Mode Font Editor)
• [2019 May 16]De-uglifying 40-Column Text Games for VGA
• [2018 Aug 08]TVCGAFIX Utilities - Adjust CGA Output for TV
• [2018 Jun 16]Taking Decent Photos of your CRT TV Screen
• [2018 May 23]Flexi IBM VGA Font: a Scalable Take on Text Mode
• [2018 May 05]So Long, Blogspot
• [2018 Mar 29]Steel Survivor: an IBM XT Tale
• [2016 Aug 18]Happy 35th birthday, IBM PC!
• [2016 Jul 18]Keen 4 Mystery Code Demystified
• [2016 Jul 18]Yet another 16-color CGA makeover: Keen 5
• [2016 May 29]Dopefish goes NTSC: Commander Keen 4 Composite CGA Patch Notes
• [2016 Mar 23]Olympiad: IBM Prototype Fonts Unearthed
• [2016 Feb 26]So-called "IBM" Freeware Games from the Early '80s
• [2016 Jan 17]The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack (v1.0)
• [2016 Jan 08]Windows (and ClearType) vs. Truetype Fonts with Embedded Bitmaps
• [2015 Dec 18]BigBlue Terminal: An Oldschool Fixed-Width Pixel Font
• [2015 Nov 08]Getting Optimal Apple ][ Screenshots w/NTSC Emulation
• [2015 Aug 09]101 Monochrome Mazes: Why Not Color?
• [2015 Aug 07]8088 MPH Final: Old vs. New CGA (and Other Gory Details)
• [2015 Aug 03]New Design
• [2015 Apr 15]CGA in 1024 Colors - a New Mode: the Illustrated Guide
• [2014 May 16]Arithmetic Games Set 1: a Peek into One of the First-Ever IBM PC Games
• [2014 May 13]Shamus Keyboard Woes Explained
• [2013 Oct 21]The Mazes of Shamus - IBM PC Version
• [2013 Oct 12]Using Photoshop as a CGA Bitmap Paint Program
• [2013 Oct 11]Power-On Self-Test...