Source code in the 8086 programming language

	;;;	Display a Sierpinski triangle on a CGA screen
	;;;	(order 7 is the maximum that fits in 200 lines)
mode:	equ	0Fh	; INT 10H call to get current video mode
puts:	equ	9h	; MS-DOS call to print string
cgaseg:	equ	0B800h	; Location of CGA video memory
	cpu	8086
	bits	16
	org	100h
section	.text
	cmp	[80h],byte 2	; Argument length should be 2 (space + digit)
	jne	eusage
	mov	al,[82h]	; Get digit
	sub	al,'0'+2	; 2->0, 7->5
	cmp	al,5		; Then it must be <=5
	jbe	argok
eusage:	mov	dx,usage	; Print usage string
estop:	mov	ah,puts
	int	21h
	ret			; And stop
argok:	add	al,2		; Add 2, setting AL to the order
	mov	[order],al	; Store the order
	mov	ah,mode		; Get the current video mode
	int	10h
	cmp	al,7		; If MDA, we don't have graphics support
	mov	dx,errcga
	je	estop
	mov	[vmode],al	; Otherwise, store the old mode
	mov	ax,4		; and switch to mode 4 (320x200 graphics)
	int	10h
	mov	ch,1		; Size = 2^order
	mov	cl,[order]
	shl	ch,cl 
	xor	dh,dh		; Start at coords (0,0)
	mov	bp,cgaseg	; Point ES at the CGA memory
mkscr:	mov	es,bp
	xor	di,di		; Start at the beginning
mkline:	xor	dl,dl		; Start at coords (0,Y)
mkbyte:	xor	al,al		; A byte has 4 pixels in it
	mov	cl,4
mkpx:	shl	al,1		; Make room for next pixel
	shl	al,1
	test	dl,dh		; X & Y == 0?
	jnz	nextpx
	or	al,3		; X & Y == 0, set pixel on
nextpx:	inc	dl		; Increment X coordinate
	dec	cl		; More pixels in this byte?
	jnz	mkpx		; If so, add them in
	stosb			; Otherwise, write it out to CGA memory
	cmp	dl,ch		; And if the line is not done yet,
	jb	mkbyte		; do the next byte on this line.
	shr	dl,1		; Move ahead to start of next line
	shr	dl,1
	mov	ax,80		; 80 bytes per line
	sub	al,dl
	add	di,ax
	add	dh,2		; Memory is interlaced so we're 2 lines further
	cmp	dh,ch		; If we're not done yet,
	jb	mkline		; Do the next line.
	add	bp,200h		; Move ahead 8k to the area for the odd lines
	cmp	bp,0BA00h	; Unless we were already there
	mov	dh,1		; We'll have to start at line 1
	jbe	mkscr
	xor	ah,ah		; Wait for a keypress to get back to DOS
	int	16h
	xor	ah,ah		; Then, restore the old video mode,
	mov	al,[vmode]
	int	10h
	ret			; And exit to DOS
section	.data
usage:	db	'SIERPCGA [2..7] - display Sierpinski triangle of order N$'
errcga:	db	'Need at least CGA.$'
section	.bss
order:	resb	1		; Order of Sierpinski triangle
vmode:	resb	1		; Store old video mode (to restore later)