One Dog v. the Windows 3.1 Graphics Stack
Wherein I learn too much about VGA hardware and generate some really cool glitch art while I try to fix somebody else's fix for a video driver that's older than I am.
I'm a bit of a retro tech enjoyer, but I'm also pretty bad at it -- I don't have the space or the motivation to try and acquire actual old computers. Playing with 86Box/PCem is pretty fun, but it's not quite the same.
So, instead, I make do with what I have. And the most ridiculous x86 machine I own is the Asus Eee PC 1000H, a netbook that I got in 2008 when that category was still new and exciting. It's borderline useless nowadays (it can't even run most up-to-date Linux distros due to its lack of x86_64 support), so sticking weird and anachronistic OSes on it is one way to keep it relevant!
I'd like to write a full-fledged blog post about these adventures at some point, but for now I'm going to focus on one particular side quest: getting acceptable video output out of the 1000H when it's running Windows 3.11 for Workgroups.
