Portal "Still Alive" ending credits on a real amber monochrome monitor

*Thanks for 28K views / 1400 likes* | Portal ending credits on vintage machine I saw that the Portal ending credits were designed to look like an old amber monochrome monitor. I had a amber (orange) phosphor MDA/HGC monitor sitting not far from me so my first thought was “I have to reproduce this on the real mono monitor“ I have an old 1986 Paradise Autoswitch EGA2 card that supports monochrome monitors and 80x43 mode so I plugged it into my 486 box and fired up Turbo C Luckily everything just fit in the 80x43 It took a lot of time and trial and error to get the timing even close to right. I know it is still a little off in parts. To make things worse, I have had constant hardlocks due to bugs in the soundblaster code (which I didn’t write since I don’t know anything of sound programming) After lots of tweaks I finally got it working reasonably well. I don’t have a decent camera so apologizes for the video quality The whole thing is driven by a
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