Endless hours spent exploring VGA hardware registers and trying to apply them for cool visual effects. Learning how the then-new 32-bit Windows interacted with DOS extenders, and trying to make a homemade - very basic - operating system that could do it, too. The thrill of writing a Terminate and Stay Resident alarm clock, and having it finally not explode...
I have very fond memories of the Ralf Brown's Interrupt List.
20 years later it is an excercize to find a device where loved EGA programming tricks work. Only unloved informatics remained
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