Young Topaz has an IFF ILBM image he wants to show his dad, but his dad’s on his PC. Learn about what it takes to write a simple IFF ILBM reader for DOS.

References

Source Code

• Hackerbun Gitea (https://code.hackerbun.dev/TheIndustriousRabbit/iff-ilbm-on-pc-vga)
  • All code used in this video

IFF Files

• “ILBM” IFF Interleaved Bitmap (http://www.etwright.org/lwsdk/docs/filefmts/ilbm.html)
  • The original IFF ILBM document from Electronics Arts and Commodore

PC Development

• Open Watcom 2.0 (https://open-watcom.github.io/)
  • The C compiler I used for my PC development
• David Brackeen’s 256-Color VGA Programming in C (http://www.brackeen.com/vga/basics.html)
  • The source for all my VGA learnings
• Ralf Brown’s Interrupt List (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ralf/files.html)
  • More info than you could ever want about every PC interrupt

Credits

Music

• “Werq” by Kevin MacLeod
  • https://incompetech.com
  • CC-BY 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
• “Onion Capers” by Kevin MacLeod
  • https://incompetech.com
  • CC-BY 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Sound Effects

• Light Switch by TimoSchmied
  • https://freesound.org/people/TimoSchmied/sounds/530973/
  • CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
• Male Gasp 1.wav by jawbutch
  • https://freesound.org/people/jawbutch/sounds/344407/
  • CC0 1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
• Fast Typing on Mechanical Keyboard by HeinzBBQ
  • https://freesound.org/people/HeinzBBQ/sounds/502653/
  • CC0 1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)