[rjsw]

They were interesting to program for.

I started using a graphics card with a 34010 before there were tools available for it. I did ports of GNU binutils (gas and ld) to target it then wrote some firmware in assembler for an X11 server to call to do basic tasks like filling rectangles, line drawing, copying with colour expansion for displaying fonts.

Still have the ISA card but haven't powered up the machine it is in for a long time.

[xgkickt]

That’s cool. I’m professionally jealous of all the people that got to program neat chips back in the arcade heyday.