How I got Mario in That Editor - And how Norton Got 🐁

[@acdarc]

"Twelvety-eight thousand" sums up Bisqwit's coding. If it's more efficient and quicker to say or do, then use it.

[@MikeDawson1]

I had to rewind because I thought I was going crazy

[@sunday87]

@@MikeDawson1 Yeah same :-D

[@kingreinhold9905]

1:29 😂

[@bengt-goranpersson5125]

Also - 9:43

[@Potts1966]

I had to rewind too, what a brilliant way to say 128,000.

[@evildojo666]

I've missed your content bro, you're a constant inspiration!

[@TDOLLA]

man, this really gets my inner child excited. I spent so much time in DOS and Qbasic and wanted so badly to just make my terminal and text editors look cool, I preferred DOS to Windows. This channel is basically what I dreamed about back then, just amazing

[@paolotestoni4250]

Same ❤️

[@Baegus]

Now that was fascinating! I sorta knew how text mode works, but I had no idea about the cursor trickery or the fact that Scream Tracker runs in text mode.

[@vuufke4327]

this guy goes to uni?? it's uni that needs to go to him

[@Kawa-oneechan]

I too put considerable effort in revealing the Norton UI font, so it's heartening to see someone else manage it.

[@Bisqwit]

How did you do it? If I may ask.

[@aidenator00]

@@Bisqwit I'm assuming Norton hid their font UI to prevent copy cats? I'd like to hear how both of you accomplished it!

[@Bisqwit]

@@aidenator00 I think "preventing copy cats" was infinitesimally low on their list of priorities. It was just a matter of not providing a glitchy experience to users.

[@Kawa-oneechan]

@@Bisqwit SideKick 2.0 was the key, letting me switch to a character table *while* running Norton Desktop.

[@Bisqwit]

@Kawa Thank you for replying eventually! I did this in dosbox-debug, which lets me edit the graphics memory while the program is running.

[@robin_be]

Great piece of history and explanation, thank you. Wishing you success in your studies!

[@x86VileR]

EGA/VGA can be set up to have two fonts active simultaneously- in this mode attribute bit 3 doubles as "character select". So Norton didn't really have to sacrifice characters from the main font. My own editor 'Fontraption' exploits this to let you edit every character without disrupting the UI (sources are available). And BTW, technically CGA and MDA both came first, since they were both available at the PC's launch. :) Happy new year!

[@Bisqwit]

Yes, you can do that at the cost of losing high-intensity colors - which I think they didn’t want to do, as they used bright white everywhere in their UI. They didn’t also want to use high-intensity everywhere, because then black text wouldn’t work. Thanks for commenting and happy new year!

[@paulwratt]

.. and remembering most people could not afford the CGA at its launch, that loss of an intensity bit (eventually) would have decimated the mono software market too ;)

[@BrendonGreenNZL]

Since they were using EGA/VGA text mode anyway, they could have used a carefully-selected 8-colour custom palette; or perhaps even deliberately avoided disabling high-intensity; or maybe even a combination of both. With sufficient effort, Norton's UI could have befuddled even the best geeks.

[@Bisqwit]

Maybe. But they didn’t have three centuries worth of geekdom to obsess over the implementation details; they had a product that had to be put to market.

[@antonnym214]

Kiitos tästä erittäin mukavasta mielenosoituksesta ja onnea suomalaisille uudelle vuodelle.

[@Bisqwit]

Mielenosoitus = protest (as in, a rally full with picket signs, megaphones and speeches; literal meaning is evince one’s opinion). Doubtful you meant that.

[@SpaceyCortex]

Good seeing and hearing from you again.

[@li86197]

it's actually quite impressive what some old software did accomplish with such limited resources. the efficiency was not an additional good, but a need. nice video as always, keep up the good work and good luck in your studies!

[@patrickbateman455]

The legend is back.

[@xyzzy3000]

Very nice.

[@arttumarttinen5408]

There are always a pleasure to watch! It's intriguing to see how these old systems worked, even if such workarounds aren't needed anymore there's value in learning about them.

[@LangleyNA]

"Person" sounds like censorship. Like that USSR leader that was painted out of a photograph. "Person." Er'body loves you, Bisqwit. Happy festivites, best wishes in 2022! Life is strange!

[@blastpipezj6937]

I'm fascinated by all the clever tricks developers used back in ye olden days. They had such limited resources but could still do so much cool stuff.

[@kech-agmaio8620]

Bisqwits the only KZbin with over 100k subs that I know to read and either like or respond to almost every single comment! So awesome

[@chimebirdplayer3327]

You know things about PCs and DOS that I wish I had learned when I was a student at NYIT. I had no idea you could change the font that's used in text mode; it gives me the idea for some projects that I wish I had time to try myself. Oh, and thanks for introducing me to Kdenlive.

[@Bisqwit]

Thank you for writing. Yeah, there is so much I also wish that I knew back in the day. A chance to sort of redeem or relive my past is one of the reasons I am doing these videos, too.

[@cyberkexx]

CGA too has that register bit that allows to choose between 16 background colors and blinking. Actually, it is set to be 16 colors by default, and it is MS-DOS that toggles it to blinking.

[@maxmuster7003]

mov ax,1003 ; vga? mov bx,1 ; = 1 blink if bit 7 attribut byte is set with 8 background colors or = 0 for intensity for 16 background colors int 10

[@paolotestoni4250]

Oh my, thank you so much. I was wondering how the hell that was possibile (I mean the smooth mouse moving in text mode) since mid 90's. I had a suspect how the trick was done but I was not sure I was right until now. 12 years old me is very happy now. Thank you muchly!!! ❤️

[@AcceleratingUniverse]

I hope you can pass "Introduction to Programming", bisqwit :)

[@Bisqwit]

The courses listed on that screen are only those that I have completed already.

[@AcceleratingUniverse]

@@Bisqwit ah, job well done

[@undefined_cat]

@@Bisqwit did you pass Mathematic for Physics? Why so low grade?

[@Bisqwit]

There are three Mathematics for Physicists courses. I completed the first one (got 2/5), abandoned the second and didn’t go for the third one. The course is essentially a crash course of a subset of university mathematics for those who major in physics. I major in mathematics. Basically that set of courses speedruns through mathematics topics at _way_ _way_ faster pace than I am prepared to put effort into, given that I am also doing a heap of other courses simultaneously. I am majoring in mathematics, so I will learn the stuff eventually, at my own pace.

[@aakoss]

The audio splicing is hilarious for the nefariousness company beginning with N

[@PASTRAMIKick]

It's not Mario guys, it's Grand Dad

[@sneakyshadoo22]

This is too old to be Grand Dad; this is Great Dad! AKA: Fortran kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3qldoJpidd0ec0

[@neon-rust]

Awesome walkthrough! Even though I mostly knew how it was done since early home computers also use the same "trick" for graphics, e.g. C64 etc. Good lock with your studies!

[@Bisqwit]

Thank you for watching and commenting even if the information was nothing new to you!

[@neon-rust]

@@Bisqwit Always! One has to support one's favourite creators ;) (especially now when the video frequency has decreased)

[@ahmetcanaksu6821]

I been always fan of terminal gui's. I loved the magic behind the cursor

[@unforgettable31]

When Bisqwit releasing a video is bigger hype than New Year’s eve. 😀

[@MissNorington]

One of the most difficult, yet, most widespread VGA text mode hack is the splash screen for Windows 95. To be able to utilize multiple tricks at the same time, Interrupt timer (interrupt 8 for priority over even Windows 95 VxD drivers!), text mode scrolling emulation, faking bios services saying it is text mode when it is graphics mode, ModeX 320x400 upper page to not erase text mode memory, and the biggest hack: To not allow text to show up in VGA graphics mode (the info about that one is unknown to most). All those things, and still, it worked on every 90s PC!

[@Bisqwit]

I didn’t know it has that many hacks. I knew that it used the 320x400 tweaked Mode-X, but do you have a source on those other aspects? I am interested.

[@MissNorington]

@@Bisqwit The main reason the logo is using 320x400 is because 400 scan lines is the same as VGA text mode (720x400) and that allows many monitors to not blank the screen while switching back to text mode for code page setup (or when pressing Esc at any time). The setup of 320x400 is optimized for code size (using mode 13h|80h to not clear video memory to remember the text at B800h). The visible graphics page is set to A000h:8000h so that most of the text (obviously page 0 and a few more) are not overwritten, and that the logo can be restored again when win.com is executed (using a check sum to see if video memory was altered). During this setup, a few of the VGA/EGA registers are altered to not allow any drawing (I don't know, this stuff is not even in Michael Abrash's book), which is probably why the text is not being drawn/scrolled. All animation is done with palette animation during interrupt 8h and is even waiting for the bus (being very compatible with most compatible hardware). Seriously, I have too much info on everything related to this, and source code as well. If you are interested, I'll find a way to talk to you. Another thing is the blue screen in Windows 9X which is text mode, but under a few buggy conditions can have a fully working graphics mouse cursor! It is the only time I have seen the blinking text mode cursor and a graphics mouse cursor at the same time, overlapping (in VGA mode 3h, and it is and should be completely impossible).

[@SianaGearz]

I don't understand, but now I need to know!

[@Bisqwit]

For the record, I am still waiting for this more information.

[@MissNorington]

@@Bisqwit I was able to provide a lot of the information said in doslogo's 16 million color boot screen video, where we tried to get the same functionality but using VESA VBE instead of VGA (which required some crazy hacking of video memory). Hopefully you can search and find it easily. After all, VESA is very limited, and not the same on every hardware, compared to VGA's programmable registers, so text mode is really dealt with differently on different hardware outside the VGA

[@juliushowlett7247]

The content of your videos is so amazing - I'm floored by your ingenuity in getting the mouse to work. Good luck with your studies.

[@Bisqwit]

Thanks, although you maybe misunderstood something because Norton tools are made by Symantec, not by me. The mouse cursor thing was specific to Norton tools.

[@juliushowlett4916]

@@Bisqwit Ah, I re-watched in non-2x-time and now I see it's a Norton thing. Yeash, I need to slow it down! Always a joy to go through the comments on these vids too... your channel attracts a sophisticated audience!

[@PlayAccordion]

Never knew they would need to do so much work to even show the mouse cursor over text. Awesome video! Thank You!

[@GiveAcademy]

I can 100% relate to university and life eating up all the time! i will finally be finished in may of 2022.. I love your content and will be a member forever! :) I always look forward to new content and I am always rewatching older videos to see what else I can learn! :) Thank you!

[@Bisqwit]

Thank you for your heartfelt comment (and your support)! Now, I could adjust my schedule and avail more free time to myself, but reasons explained in other comments are why I am speedrunning through it.

[@GiveAcademy]

@@Bisqwit For sure... there are always potential sacrifices.. however.. priorities are important for the long game. :)

[@stevep9177]

12:52 I assume you are just doing the coursework and not attending all those classes? You probably can do those "intro" and "basics" courses in your sleep.

[@Bisqwit]

The courses marked with the pen&paper symbol 📝 I completed directly with a general exam without attending any classes.

[@CutieFakeKirby]

I like how he said "person" to avoid copyright claims xD, also this video is pretty informative, might use it sometime! And I think they made Norton systeminfo look like this to make it similar to windows 3.11

[@hell7sing]

Missed your content! This is pretty cool information! I’m always impressed with the detail that you go through and your presentation of information is very clear! Awesome job!

[@starc0w]

Another thought occurred to me. Your CS teachers can consider themselves very lucky. What have you taught them all? 😁That is certainly a special and funny situation. Your teachers have certainly never had a student with such a high level of competence!🙃

[@Bisqwit]

Most of the courses have massive participant lists, so the teachers don’t particularly have opportunities to notice individual students. In some cases, the curriculum is also rather demotivating and pushes talents down to a common level. However, after only the first period, I got an offer to be a (paid) supervisor on the course _Introduction to Databases._ I accepted the offer effective the next period. I think, chances are the same could have also happened on the two programming courses, if I had taken them normally instead of substituting both with general exams.

[@VytenisNarusis]

Great video! Never knew about the trick, it's really interesting to see the ingenuity of programmers at play like this. Best of luck with your studies!

[@samieb4712]

I am so happy there's another Bisqwit video

[@EximiusDux]

It's nice to see a new video by Bisqwit. The videos have such a unique style to them.

[@victorgabr]

I have Missed you, bro! love your videos... It points to what I dreamed to achieve while learning "Turbo Pascal" on MSDOS, such nostalgia.

[@StuartTaylorEsquire]

First time KZbin's algorithm suggested something I actually want to watch and I was not disappointed. A great way to start 2022, thank you. Subscribed.

[@Bisqwit]

Thank you, and a have a nice new year!

[@aliets]

I cannot believe he actually did it. I've been waiting for this specific video for so long... THANK YOU BISQWIT

[@mousefad3673]

Happy New Year Bisquit. Your videos are brilliant!

[@RFGSwiss]

as a child, i never realized, what hack was needed to accomplish this mousecursor. thanks for the explanation and all the best for your studies.

[@Bisqwit]

Most DOS programs that used a mouse had a block cursor that just swapped the foreground and background colors of whatever cell the mouse cursor would be on. It would move by cell granularity, not by pixel granularity.

[@RFGSwiss]

@@Bisqwit yeah, like norton commander et al. this one was simple and much more common.

[@Bleenderhead]

wait, what is it doing if you move the cursor over one of the cells in that is displaying the font table in config.sys, which happens to be one of the ones being used to animate the mouse cursor by superimposing it on the tile below it?

[@Bisqwit]

You get a similar effect as when pointing a video camera at its monitor. Except, because it’s binary bitmap and not analog, you don’t get swirly rainbows, but the principle is the same.

[@herbiehusker1889]

I've wondered this for years

[@maxmuster7003]

CGA 0-3 character blocks VGA 0-7 character blocks We can use 2 character set at once. Example: We can set some user character with int 1100 to block 0 (default character set) and we can set some other character to block 1 to the same ASCII number. And then we can make the character of block 1 visible with int 10 ax=1103 bl=84 + with using color attribut bit 3 of the text screen with the character. If bit 3 is set the character of block 1 is visible and if bit 3 is not set block 0 is visible, but with the limit of 8 foreground colors.

[@LogicEu]

Mr Bisqwit, thank you for an amazingly inspiring video.

[@JuusoAlasuutari]

Happy to hear you're studying! Of course that sort of thing takes priority over youtube. Toivottavasti kaikki sujuu hyvin, pidä kivaa siellä.

[@njsynthesis]

I don't think I'll ever get used to "twelvety-eight".

[@ScuffedBassist]

New Bisqwit video? Why tf wasn't I notified?! That bell button is getting slapped immediately.

[@jussila3]

Ei minkään maan käryä näistä mutta videoita on mukava seurata! Kiitos!

[@Bisqwit]

Kiitos itsellesi.

[@FoxBlocksHere]

What an interesting video! I loved how professional the presentation was, too! It sucks that you have to censor Mario's name, though. If only Nintendo weren't so bad. Also, thanks so much for contributing something to the Kdenlive project (in this case, I'm referring to your CRT filter)! I use Kdenlive myself, and sometimes it can be tough to use due to being a small open-source project, years behind in development compared to the commercial editors out there. It helps to know there are still people out there helping it improve!

[@Bisqwit]

Thanks, but the CRT filter was not made as a part of the kdenlive project. I postprocessed the video offline, and added the modified video as a clip to kdenlive. (Though technically, I could also do it in the way you suggest, if I spent time researching how to do that. Since it works on single frames at a time, there’s no reason why it couldn’t do that.)

[@FoxBlocksHere]

@@Bisqwit Oh, sorry for misunderstanding.

[@starc0w]

That was awesome! ☺Thx Bisqwit and a happy new year!💫

[@tonym5857]

Hello B. is good to see you here. Great video again thank you. Happy holydays and I can t imagine your schedule with amount of courses with exams, homework, investigation. I d like someday you share more in details your courses. Regards.

[@grproteus]

What an awesome video, thank you for taking the time to make it!

[@alexwolski3344]

A new video!!! I love tricks like these. Keep it up!

[@ilmarinen79]

Great to see another video from you, always so unique and fascinating. Have a happy new year and good luck with the university speed run challenge!

[@kartik4792]

Mind-blowing!! Idea of animated fonts is really cool. Would try to implement them for my editor.

[@donCreat0r]

6:34 in fact you may have 512 symbols at the same time if you limit to 8 background colors and your graphics adapter will use that freed bit to choose between one of two loaded fonts. Supported by any VGA, AFAIK.

[@Bisqwit]

Indeed. However, Symantec wanted to have both black (not high-intensity) and bright blue (yes, high-intensity) as well as bright white on the screen at the same time, so this option was out of the window. It is also out of window for my editor which does syntax highlighting and likewise uses a number of colors, both bright and not-bright.

[@donCreat0r]

@@Bisqwit oh. you're right. it's 8 text (foreground) color limitation, not background. it was soooo long time ago I've played with the text mode in DOS :)

[@se7ense7ense7ense7ense7en]

really interesting the lengths you went to just to have -mario-*person* in your editor

[@Bisqwit]

In the words of GLaDOS, we do what we must, because we can.

[@Greyarea23]

Twelvety: the number of precious things in the shop

[@bar10dr]

You are awesome. Hope you have a great 2022.

[@tecsmith_info]

Happy new year @Bisqwit - it's great to see you posting again, and best of luck in your studies!

[@jockey101]

Thank you bisqwit

[@Elias07070]

Good video as always Bisqwit!!!

[@DevDungeon]

Amazing information and well explained!

[@igeoorge3g]

what a pleasure listen to this video

[@smellyvomit]

My favorite character of all time, m-PERSON-o.

[@corepunch]

I only noticed that yesterday, I Immediately thought it was windows 1.0 and not text mode. Also strange not more DOS programs did that with icons and checkboxes and smooth mouse curor

[@AetCount]

Every video you make is a gift to us. Please, take the time you need for your studies. We'll be here when you have free time to post something :)

[@saccharineboi]

This is brilliant. Thank you!

[@install_gentoo]

Nice video, I know what I'm going to recreate tonight. :]

[@therewasblood]

always excited to see your content!

[@rollingrock3480]

I just graduated with my Bachelor's at age 32! Better late than never!

[@thefastjojo]

missed you, your content is the best!

[@ramit7]

I have been wondering bout the mario for so long XD.. thanks ^_^

[@SandburgNounouRs]

Is that me, or did you already explain this Mario trick in a former video, several years ago? I have a feeling of deja vu.

[@Bisqwit]

I might have explained the trick in a livestream, but nowhere in as much detail as in this video.

[@docwhogr]

happy to hear from you, any plans on what you'll do after you graduate?

[@Bisqwit]

There will be a time for plans. Now it’s too early.

[@nameistunbekannt7896]

Tw.. twe... twelvty eight thousand? I'll steal that!

[@wertyxq3468]

Just right for new year's eve.

[@Veso266]

Ah nice you are back, the sad part about university is that you dont have anytime for anything else other then university and maybe some sleep and then you bust your ass of and can still fail But its all worth it at the end (you feel better) BTW: what university have you attended, I guess you work alongside as well (or does your job provide some form of vacation when you have to attend classes and souch)

[@Bisqwit]

Hi Veso266 and thank you for asking. The part about university study schedule is entirely my own making. There’s no rule saying how many courses I have to take, but I just want to speedrun through it. I could have much more free time if I wanted, at the cost of the studies taking more years. I attend the University of Helsinki, at the Bachelor+Master’s program for Teachers of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. In Finland, we have a thing called “adult education allowance”. It is a system that allows one to stay employed at a company _and_ study full-time without having to do any work for the company, provided that you have been employed full-time for at least 8 years total. The company does not pay you any salary, but you get a monthly benefit from the Employment Fund. The benefit is proportional to your average salaries for the past year, although significantly smaller. Your employment contract stays in effect. You can enjoy this benefit _once_ for a maximum of 322½ days (21½ days per month, 15 months total). You can pause the benefit for e.g. summer times. If you also decide to work full-time for at least half of the month, the benefit days elapse at half the rate. The limited nature of this benefit is one of the reasons I want to speedrun through the courses.

[@emireri2387]

I also want mario in `That Editor` in my own MS-DOS VM, will there be a tutorial any time soon?

[@Bisqwit]

This video pretty much is the tutorial.

[@NeoAF10]

Yay! Bisqwit is back!!!

[@SamplrOfMoonshine]

mmm... bisqwit's soundbank in my midi player by this guy?

[@Bisqwit]

Can I buy a verb?

[@SamplrOfMoonshine]

@@Bisqwit no?

[@cdscissor]

PERSON.

[@GuildOfCalamity]

So how is it replacing the glyphs real-time?? Are you loading a TSR or something?

[@Bisqwit]

A DOS program could replace the glyphs at any time it wants by simply giving the right instructions to the display card. The editor does this periodically by hooking the timer interrupt and reprogramming it to fire 120 times in a second instead of the standard 18,2 times a second.

[@Acceptable76]

you're back!!! yay!

[@koeihiroko3622]

Can you please share the Text Editor that has mario moving?

[@Bisqwit]

Look up “That Editor”.

[@punboleh7081]

OMFG....... That would have been so helpful to know thirty years ago. 🤦 Now I'm day dreaming about the things I could have done with that information. After switching from BASIC on a C64 to Turbo Pascal on a 286, for about a year all my programs were in text mode until I learnt how to switch to graphics mode. (That was before StackOverflow, before Google, even.) I had great admiration for those Norton etc. programs that took text mode to the limit, but I had no idea that trick was so simple. I used to think they used some sort of hybrid text / graphic mode. To think that you could just.... make your own font.... and.... oh, well. I'm still speechless. The other surprise was - there was a code page for Russian?? Did that come pre-installed on a European DOS version or would that information have been useless back then? There was one program I wanted to write but couldn't due to the lack of a Russian font. Could I have just selected code page 855 or would that only work on a Russian version of DOS?

[@Bisqwit]

There was a tool called CHCP starting from MS-DOS 6.22, which could change the codepage. There were also options to the COUNTRY command in CONFIG.SYS that achieve the same, starting from MS-DOS 3.0.

[@punboleh7081]

@@Bisqwit I assume the fonts came with DOS, not with the graphic card, so the question would be whether DOS came with all fonts, or whether for example the Cyrillic font was only included in the Russian version, in which case setting the code page to 855 wouldn't have any effect.

[@Bisqwit]

@@punboleh7081 Yes, that is correct. The graphics card only came with the CP437 font. Everything else was DOS.

[@punboleh7081]

@@Bisqwit Thanks for the clarification. :) It means a lot to me to finally learn what I should have learnt back then. I was trying to figure out whether I could have used code page 855 in MS-DOS 3.3, though. I've found one source stating it was only included in MS-DOS 6.22, so I guess I couldn't have used Russian letters after all.

[@Bisqwit]

@@punboleh7081 The hardware feature that enabled changing the fonts was only present starting with VGA. As far as I know, it wasn’t possible with earlier graphics cards. Whether the COUNTRY= setting changed the font in earlier DOS versions if VGA was present is unknown to me (e.g. COUNTRY=381,855,C:\DOS\COUNTRY.SYS DEVICE=C:\DOS\DISPLAY.SYS CON=(,,2) )

[@boscorner]

are there pictures online anywhere of the logos @3:10

[@Bisqwit]

I have a larger showcase here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3_Iq2WojsyBa9U and that video description includes a link.

[@boscorner]

@@Bisqwit thank you !!

[@user-dt5fi4ic5c]

What video editing software do you use?

[@Bisqwit]

kdenlive is what I use for video editing. I sometimes also do video preprocessing with custom tools.

[@teachies902]

i love your videos

[@FudgyDRS]

I've been researching solidity low level calls and I'd like to know your thoughts on whether it seems feasible to create emulation in this manner?

[@Bisqwit]

Emulation of what? Low level calls of what?

[@FudgyDRS]

@@Bisqwit Solidity is the language used for the Ethereum network. The low level calls allow us to manipulate memory and assign ports. My initial goal has been to emulate the Gameboy but I'm looking for simpler systems to emulate.

[@Bisqwit]

​@@FudgyDRS One sounds like a cryptocurrency and the other like a video game console. I have no idea how you associate these two things with each others. Good luck.

[@wizardscrollstudio]

What is that voice in the background saying? 9:30

[@Bisqwit]

Mario

[@kcarlsson89]

Good "luck" with the studies!

[@ooze9808]

Can you post more disassembly videos

[@sonilpro8526]

Hey how is university is it hard for you?

[@Bisqwit]

Some courses are yes, some courses less so.

[@sonilpro8526]

@@Bisqwit Good to hear you are actually learning something, while watching your videos I always admire your knowledge and think that you know everything about computers but I guess there is always more things to learn. Sometimes I get overwhelmed by the amount of stuff I learn in college, and now I know the minimum of each field in computer science but nothing more then that, so I get scared that I won't get a job with my knowledge. Learning one language for 3 months really won't teach me that much. I hope it will be better further down the road. Cheers to you man and keep doing what you love, we admire your content and effort you put into these videos.

[@erikhicks07]

Only 24 hours in a day? Simple hex edit can fix that ;-) Happy Holidays!

[@D0Samp]

How does that Commodore VIC-20 display games without a freely addressable graphic mode?

[@Bisqwit]

I am not sure how VIC-20 works, but if it is any similar to C64 (and to NES), it had a tilemap based background graphics layer, and sprites which similarly also used tilemap, but which could be positioned anywhere on the screen at pixel resolution.

[@SianaGearz]

@@Bisqwit no spites. There is also no graphics mode. If you use a text mode with double height letters and limit the number of lines a little, you can just about fill the screen with unique text mode characters that you can redefine.

[@edwardfanboy]

When speaking Finnish do you call 120 "kaksitoistakymmentä", or is "twelvety" an English-only thing?

[@Bisqwit]

It’s just a shortcut to make it easier to pronounce. And also a sort of meme on my channel.

[@Behiri]

it was fantastic.

[@robberynl]

It's good to see that your absence is due to studying :) I hope you find something interesting to challenge you (and not just race to get a diploma). I would wish you good luck, but that seems inappropriate. Luck is not the key here. So, good ... effort?