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Saturday, April 15 Christopher shows his geekier side Now we're talking old skool. Ok, so I know that I'm late on this one, and I know it's already been Dugg, /.ted, and put on Waxy and various blogs, but I feel this deserves a bit of credit where credit's due. I mean come on, could you make an IBM 8088 display full-motion video, with sound, and actually have it work pretty much flawlessly? On a machine with a 4.77MHz processor, an original Sound Blaster sound card, and a monitor which would only work in CGA? (that's a generous maximum of 640x200 pixels in up to 4-bit (16!) colours for, those who aren't au fait with pre-Windows-XP parlance). No, I couldn't do it, either. However, an old scener hand who goes by the handle Trixster, well, he did it. And made the results available on his site, source code and all, and a Google Video showing his demo in action. I was impressed. Go take a look, and take a moment to marvel at how you sometimes CAN teach an old dog some new tricks. ;) 8088 Corruption - something amazing by Trixster. I'm off to bed. nn :) Dragged out of Christopher's memory and pasted into his blog at 4/15/2006 06:04:00 AM. Roughly. Blog ID: 114507744726159522· | Permalink |
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