MICROSOFT DECATHLON 1982; MICROSOFT, IBM, TIMOTHY W SMITH ------------------- Running, jumping, etc. Start: DECATHLN.COM Are you using a color display? y I need to know what type of display device.. PRESS 1 Quit: F1 Bug --- Speaker won't turn off (same problem occurs with booter). Technical --------- The screen was squashed and had the wrong colours. This work was done: After the loader has run, the game commences at 6700. This section is where you choose what display type etc. To get the correct colours, the code from 6723-6750 was shifted up to 6717 to make room for this code: 6747-6756: B4 0B BB 00 01 CD 10 B4 0B BB 01 00 CD 10 90 90 -> First 7 bytes: select black/green/pink/yellow palette Next 7 bytes: select blue background, low intensity To expand the screen, these bytes were changed: 7065 & 706D: EE -> 90