I provide here my legacy 16-bit Assembly Language programme for Intel 80286 running DOS, that implements a text editor with pseudo-graphical capability. In addition to standard text processing features, this simple 4.5K DOS programme allows the user to draw complex tables with varying border styles and simple hypertexts.

Although a legacy DOS programme, this example may be useful for those looking for sample compact assembly-language code that can be built into e.g. OS loaders. In such an application, any existing DOS interrupt calls would have to be replaced with BIOS or custom alternatives, of course.

Save the link in the left pane as a .zip archive file, decompress and compile using Microsoft or Borland Assembler....display full article text