DOS Stars

Introduction

Displays a scrolling starfield in CGA on 16-bit realmode DOS.

Code is very simplistic assembler and is more of an instructional example than anything serious.

Building, Running, and Testing

Prerequisites

• A MASM compatible toolchain:
  • ML64.EXE
  • JWasm and JWlink
• A DOS or PC emulator, any one of:
  • DOSBox
  • Bochs
  • PCem
  • XTulator
  • 86Box

Building

make

Testing

(requires DOSBox)

make test

or

dosbox

Edit dosbox.conf to suit your platform configuration.

Reference

• Vintage PC Pages - Color Graphics Adapter Notes
• Old Pseudo-Random Number Generators
• 8086 Cheat Sheet PDF