Day 882

Solar panel came: very effective in proper sunlight, 65mA through glass at 3V, 110mA outside. Quite inspiring to listen to R5 and think that no resources are being used, so no cost.
Couldn't find any jobs to apply for in the freesheets, this could be a bit of a problem with the scum tomorrow. I'd better do something, even speculative letters perhaps (dread the prospect).

Couldn't iron out the bugs in the C version of the .EPS shower, but had more luck with a replacement for INT 10 that only allows graphics mode changes to modes 7 (text) and 0F (EGA Mono). So any prog that goes into Mode 10h (EGA colour, but same resolution) using INT 10/00 will go into Mono mode instead, enabling me to use it. Didn't work with GWS (but hang on, that's set up for Hercules) but did with GWS's self-displaying .EXE files which take a mode switch. It does take up rather a lot of space though and would benefit from being rewritten in assembly language. (Don't hear 'machine code' much in PC contexts). Felt quite proud of it.