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Who else had a monochrome monitor to display Soft-ICE info while debugging video-intensive programs? Text at B000:0000 instead of B800:0000.

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Yes, me! I also had a hardware switch wired to the ISA bus so I could generate a non-masking interrupt to break into the debugger no matter what the application was doing.

We also used the mono monitor when developing games in the 90s. We were able to display log messages and stats on a separate screen. It was a super useful trick.

I had always wondered about that feature. I reckon Turbo Debugger supported it too but MDA adapters were hard to find when I started my debugging adventures.

I didn't realize until now that a Herc was an upgrade over a plain MDA card. I'd forgotten how many discrete chips there were and the size of the board! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_Graphics_Card

edit: The herc being the MDA compatible card that I had to debug on.

Yes, Turbo Debugger, it supported MDA - another department on our faculty had a separate machine for AutoCAD with 2 monitors, and I spent quite a lot of time on that machine debugging graphical programs in TD...

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