Bonus software releae: The TURBO3 screen output speedup TSR

Eric Auer <[email protected]> Fri, 8 Nov 2002 00:23:21 +0100 (MET)
Newsgroups gmane.os.freedos.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Hi folks, I have given my 1993/1994 tool "TURBO2" a whirl and made
a NASM version (runs on any PC/XT or better) with a bonus command line
enable/disable interface compared to TURBO2. I call it TURBO3. It is
public domain software now, a 642 byte .com file, a 206 line .asm file
and some 43 lines of documentation. It consumes less than 0.5k of RAM
as TSR (of course you can use lh/loadhi/loadhigh).

As said in the subject line, TURBO3 speeds up the classical DOS style
screen output, by offering fast replacements for the two functions of
the video BIOS that DOS uses most. Only the mose popular modes 80x25
and 40x25 and only the first screen page are "speeded up". Other stuff
will run as slow as before. On the other hand, this makes the functions
that ARE handled by TURBO3 even faster. Read the documentation to learn
how to disable the functions temporarily and reenable them and so on.


Get TURBO3 at:
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/

I do not feel like needing Zeno or similar even on a 386 PC (unless I
run a slow ANSI version, but TURBO3 or Zeno do not help in that case
either), but if you should feel like trying "an alternative to Zeno",
feel free to try my TURBO3 and give me feedback on it (or send better
versions :-)).

Cheers, Eric.