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Hmm... I think something got lost in translation. :/
- One of the pages on that site includes a video of somebody demonstrating a precursor to Microsoft Encarta ("Microsoft Multimedia Encyclopaedia") running on Windows 1.0 in 1987:
https://blueosmuseum.com/videos/video.php?v=msmmen
This thing has full-motion video and 3D graphics while the Windows title-bar and menu-bar are visible on-screen, and I don't understand how that was possible. PCs in 1987 wouldn't have had the power to do all that in software. I can maybe imagine something like a VideoCD with MPEG1 videos might store and play back video, but then how would it be composited with the Windows GUI? A decade later I had a Super VGA card with hardware video scaling, but in 1987?
- 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
- If it's not actually a decompilation, allowing developers to go in and remove N64 hardware assumptions baked into the original code, isn't this basically just an emulator?
- @ondono is correct in their summary …. There is a fuller discussion in the ### How It Works section in the n64Recomp repo.
- Not an expert, but from what I see the code is being recompiled for the new platform, so no, this is not an emulator. Emulating would require running the original binary on top of a virtual representation of the console in question.
Decompilations OTOH are work-intensive recreations of the source code, and people expect this recreation to have certain resemblance to the original (unavailable) code. This tool doesn't do this.
It grabs the binary "translates" it to C by using some clues to restore some of the structure, but it's C output is basically unreadable for humans. This output is then piped into a compiler for the target platform together with the pulled assets.
- I was fascinated by the idea of a personal contact list with a Mii-style "build a caricature of this contact's face" feature, given affordable digital photography (and displays capable of presenting such photos) were probably years away.
- Ha, I should have checked /new before trying to submit my own link.
The intro music is absolutely classic.
- If it's been a while since you heard it, here's the sound (and animation) in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE_iCgBUacQ
- Sadly, GOG only sells the DOS version running in DOSBox, not any of the native Windows versions.
I guess it's nice that it's still purchasable at all, but from the descriptions it sounds like the latest Windows version is the best one to play.
- I'm a bit worried about all the power adaptors being glued and screwed into solid plastic enclosures with no ventilation. That can't be good, right?
- I now live in hope that Adrian's Digital Basement (or some similar channel) will obtain one of these and put it through its paces.
- A pineapple? Like, a grenade?
- Pineapple is an innocuous looking device that contains extra circuitry/capability to attack or test security at an installation. A common form factor is a something like a powerstrip that is mailed out to an office. once its plugged in it powers up and starts scanning whatever it can and sending data out over its own SSID/wifi or even a cellular modem.
NSA even has their own brand: https://www.zdnet.com/article/power-pwn-this-darpa-funded-po.../
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Ah. The age of innocence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FILE_ID.DIZ