; --------------------------------------------- ; Trames, a 64 bytes effect for no good reason ; Rouquemoute/Titan, January 6 2007 ; --------------------------------------------- ; Don't stare at the screen for too long... ; Inspired by a painting by Francois Morellet (Trames, 1965) ; on display at the Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe. ; Don't miss this museum next time you go to The Ultimate Meeting! ; Greetings go to Bonz, Picard, Silique, Baze, and especially to Pirx ; for his HardCode intro collection, Rrrola for his optimization comments ; on pouet and Lord Kelvin for his neat commented codes. ; I learned a great deal from those three sources. ; Compile with FASM org 100h mov al,13h ; set up VGA int 10h les bp,[bx] re: xor di,di inc cx mov bx,199 ; y coordinate yloop: mov bp,319 ; x coordinate xloop: mov ax,bx xor ax,bp mov si,bp add si,bx add si,cx shr si,6 or si,ax add al,0 ; clear auxiliary carry lea ax,[bx+si] ; draw 16*16 squares aaa ; with thick lines lea ax,[bp+si] aaa salc and al,15 stosb dec bp jns xloop dec bx jns yloop mov dx,03DAh ; wait for retrace retrace: in al,dx test al,08h je retrace mov ah,1 int 16h ; key pressed? jz re ; yes => demo ret ; no => die