A new font editor for DOS: dual tab interface, clipboard, block operations, 40/80 columns, 8/9-dot mode.  Handles ROM + BMP + XBIN formats, and can create configurable .COM TSRs.  All in a 12KB executable (source is included, plus a huge pack of fonts).

Does VGA 40-column text mode hurt your eyeballs and disfigure the games you play?  A couple of small, mode-specific font replacement TSRs to the rescue.

Using a TV set as a CGA display device has its issues, especially horizontal centering and color in 80-column text mode.  These utilities should help.  There's a bootable version too, so you can throw it at your favorite booter games.

A few techniques derived by trial-and-error, and some obvious pitfalls to avoid.  May prove useful to you other amateur CRT photographers out there.

Yet another go at converting the pre-GUI PC's most iconic typeface into a TrueType font.  This time, a version with scalable outlines and a faithful aspect ratio.

How to migrate away from a centralized, restricted platform and keep your cool and your "link juice" (disclaimer: retainment of cool may vary).

A fully-equipped IBM 5160 braves the rigors of international shipping and gets here in one piece (just barely).  As will be pictorially demonstrated, 30+ years after leaving the factory, this steel warrior is still one tough SOB.

My present: 'Sorry Ass' - a 512-byte boot sector version of Bill Gates' DONKEY, the infamous demonstration game included with DOS and BASIC 1.0.

A little bit of reverse-engineering fun.  Why was a seemingly-unused routine left over in Commander Keen 4's executable code, and does it do anything useful?  Let's find out!

After giving Keen 4's CGA version a 16-color composite overhaul, I figured I'd have a go at the next episode.  More custom code and graphics for the artifact-color aficionado.

This game is a pretty impressive piece of CGA programming, but there's one thing it doesn't do: exploit NTSC quirks to get 16 colors on a TV/composite monitor, instead of the familiar 4.  Here's how you can change that with a patch and a custom set of converted graphics.

Historical exhibit: a set of 25 floppy disks documenting IBM's creation of an in-house bitmap typeface for the RT PC project (code-named Olympiad).  Contains the original material as received, plus TTF and PNG conversions of the fonts and images.