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   Jonas Maebe to Marco van de Voort   
   Re: Operating System written in (Turbo)    
   30 Oct 06 15:13:17   
   
   From: Jonas.Maebe@rug.SPAM.ac.ME.be.NOT   
      
   In article ,   
    Marco van de Voort  wrote:   
      
   > > Zone 66 by Epic MegaGames:   
   > > http://www.abandonia.com/games/en/387/Zone66.htm   
   > >   
   > > And I believe most of the Dos version(s) of Comanche Maximum Overkill   
   > > also used flat real mode.   
   >   
   > Thanks. I meant it more in TP/Pascal context, but this is still a new and   
   > interesting fact for me.   
   >   
   > How were these programmed btw? 16-bit compiler + hand crafting the 32-bit   
   > parts? Or 32-bit compiler modified to emit prefixes?   
      
   I have no idea, but I guess both contained a lot of assembler since they   
   really pushed the limits of the machines available at that time.   
      
      
   Jonas   
      
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