- shdon 1 day agoWith the very first version of the GAL (Game Adaptation Language) that would later evolve into AGI, you could actually see the images being drawn... That was with the self-booting floppy versions of King's Quest 1 and 2.reply
- As a historical note. A lot of video/audio in this era was laserdisc.I worked on a touch screen playback system that used laserdisc. In 1988 this was state of the state of the art . The same system was in the awesome gsme DragonsLair, Space Ace, and. M.A.C.H. 3
Digital video was quite a number of years out:
Autodesk flic came out in 89/90. - the famous jolt cola can
Apple shipped QuickTime in late 91
Microsoft shiipped VfW in 1992
Mpeg1 chipsets became common in 1993
- Apologies but Microsoft hack tricked you.
1) the video is in mode h 320x200x8. - not a lot of data to move. Even. Then.
2) The title and scrolls bars are fake and fixed like a tv border., like you maximized your browser window. (Not f11 full screen mind you). Stating at 1:15 you see paints and updates inside the window but no scrolling.or other windows.
3 ) The bouncing cube isn’t being streamed back. It’s just a bouncing cube demo trying to one up the Amiga bouncing ball. The cube is bouncing but if yiu look at the face of each cube its static texture map . At the 0:50 you can see a mouse appear and the clicks perturb the trajectory that means it’s not recorded or decoded video.
4) All the other image of JFK etc are just bmps being decoded like web gifs
- This is awesome. I know 1:3 scale is so it can printed but a full scale would be really interesting.
I saw a few days ago a TrS80 model IV rebuild with an LCD screen packed in to replace a failed tube.
- The Mac was legit, but windows was always snake oil. Honestly, I think that the working set on windows is too dynamic for it to matter even if it did compress something.
- Not going to lie. Audited a quantum machine learning (QML) course this spring and the basis of quantum computation looked an awful lot like this
- Another example of carmacks law. Things that run Doom and things that will soon run Doom
- @ondono is correct in their summary …. There is a fuller discussion in the ### How It Works section in the n64Recomp repo.
- It was definitely popular with TBBS. I think PCboard wanted the machine to itself. I ran majorBBS up until the internet happened and then it just didn’t matter any more
- I bet there is a blog post In reviewing all the IBM portables stating with this bad boy leading up to thinkpads.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Portable_Personal_Computer
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Also. The story telling was good. Which helped :-)