[keithnoizu]

and I felt like a rebel just using vga x mode.

[1letterunixname]

Square pixel 360×240 was sane, but 360×480 always felt dirty.

IIRC, Mode X video mode set routines boiled down to an exhaustive table of VGA register control values. (See SDL or older FreeBSD for examples.) Then, the fun was pixel addressing, bitblting, and page flipping.

[p1mrx]

> Square pixel 360×240

Did you mean 320×240?

[marmakoide]

I felt like an unknown genius using 256x256 unchained VGA : marginally faster sprites ! Sprite clipping using a 4 pixels out of screen border !