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GORILLAS.BAS for the win

My 386 didn't have a color graphics adapter, which required using a program called "Phix" - a terminate-stay-resident that emulated VGA on monochrome. Sadly this completely broke QBASIC (the editor was just a black screen), so I had to reboot the machine (to remove the TSR) in order to hack on GORILLAS.BAS. Compilation times nowadays are still longer than that rigmarole.

But it should have some kind of display adapter, what was it, Hercules? I didn't know of any 386-class computers that didn't carry EGA or higher.

Hercules definitely rings a bell. The Wikipedia page[1] actually explains how the TSR [probably] worked, which seems to not be much as the Hercules seems to be quite elegantly designed.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_Graphics_Card#CGA_Emu...

Well I clearly remember using an Hercules emulator with my SuperVGA card so that it could run some old DOS games, so the other way around also worked.

YES

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