- Same. Watching high res 60fps YT video on a crt is amazing!
- I still love a good CRT and can often fix them. I like their speed, and I love the glow
A good plasma set can be a compromise and that is the family TV right now
OLED glows well, but I am really hoping we get LED for supermarket bright displays that are not so delicate or susceptible to burn in.
- In high school, a physics teacher once had a play on percussive maintenance. I call it impact encouragement. Or when using a hammer, linear encouragement, but I digress...
He held a glitchy TV by one side 6 inches in the air. Went on at length about the physics of it too. All sorts of BS, and then he dropped it!
#BAM!
Perfect picture after that! And I mean exemplary! Was weird. That set performed better than the others for years! At least two
- In all my travels I have never seen a Cannon Cat in the wild. I assume he’s holding a model - when I had seen pictures in BTYE magazine years ago I assumed it was about the size of an Apple IIc. Anyone confirm ?
I saw there is emulator for MAME but it’s not complete.
- I first heard this in 1997, out of my own mouth, seeing the first wave of 3-D hardware-accelerated demos. I felt that removed all of the challenge. Clearly I was wrong, and clearly the scene is not (still) dying.
- I’m not the site owner but I am not having issues from Canada. Anyone else ?
- I get the following error: Secure Connection Failed: An error occurred during a connection to a6000.net. PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR
- that is not for DOS :(
- You’re welcome.
- CRTs definitely react positively to percussive maintenance.
- what i liked about crt's was the toughness. you could slap, punch or hit the glass tube and the screen would be fine. there were so many pics of screens destroyed by nintendo wii controllers that would have bounced off a crt. even pointing out numbers on a spreadsheet can cause a modern screen to be damaged if it's not done carefully. and of course all the cats miss the warm shelf they could sleep on while they watched their human work. :-)
- I'll take any version where you can shoot the dog. Laugh at me, will you!?
- Og title : Sega resurrects its old ‘blast processing’ Genesis TV ad to fire shots at Mario Kart World
- I see the appeal. Unless you have an anchor bay the purity of the image is very appeasing. Certainly can’t play Duck hHunt on an LCD screen.
- This is accurate. It wasn't Mac vs Apple II. Apple would have liked to have sold more and faster IIgs models, and they couldn't get the CPUs. That's actually why Mark Twain didn't ship. They'd figured out how to do low(er)-cost Macs by the time they could get 4 MHz in quantity.
- I am fairly certain that the limit on the IIgs was actually the quality and availability of the CPU. WDC had serious yield issues, and this even affected accelerator availability for the Apple IIgs which were less plentiful than the machine itself (obviously). Hence, Woz said 8MHz at the start but this didn’t materialize. Part of this is due to the CPU design not working on smaller nodes that WDC had hoped would lead to the increased clocks. Ultimately, it was second sources and redesigns that helped the chip make its way into the SNES and other machines.
- >>>TOS which simply meant “the operating system”, although many believed “T” actually stood for “Tramiel”.
Huh. You learn something new everyday
- Not yet vintage, but the silver age of mac gear will be retro one day. But keeping machines alive and not relegating them to e-waste is always a good thing.
- The DemoScene was always for the love of the game. When we had more of a shared culture (saw the same movies, listened to the same music, etc) it was easier to see things done that can amaze you. pushing the hardware to places it was not thought possible. Now today, and 2SB is a testament to that, there are so many opportunies to do something crazy - hacking an LLM into animal crossing on gamecube anyone ??!?!
Our expectations are also higher - I remember building a ray tracer for the Mac II for my graphics class in '88. I made a movie - maybe 17 seconds long. all in my class when "oooh - ahhh" appreciating the accomplishment. I showed it to my girlfriend at the time and she said "I've seen better on MTV....". The technical merits are drowned out by what is common place on other system. sigh.
- Definitely available in UK and EU. I was working with the major labels at the time to ingest all their music and we'd get calls saying "Apple just turned up, you won't believe what they have."
- I love the scene. Watching people continue to improve on what is possible every year is amazing and inspiring!
When a system is software driven and open, there tends to be more possible than we may think!
I first became aware of this on the VCS (2600). Actual capability was combat basically. But, the chips were designed in a permissive way and it turns out if you flog it hard enough, good things can happen!
And seeing those tricks inspired me to explore: Atari, some C64, on my own and that shaped a career of both putting out fires whike making magic happen and here is the kicker: I got paid for it!
...Color Computer 2 and 3, Some C64, Apple 2, GS (dissappointing), PC ( the 8 bit like ones, sorry viler, lol, but I got unfinished business with those machines to do the moment I get something running with an ISA bus.) VCS, 7800.
More recently, e-paper, Propeller other embedded devices.
6502, 6809, 65816, Z-80, 8086, 8088, '386
Even g-code! Made more than a few industrial machines punch well above their weight class.
Unix, Linux, NT, DOS, Microsoft Unix whatever it is called, IRIX, HP UNIX... (I really miss SGI and I never hacked on
All the way back to a 6th grade door knob I found I could unlock just by pure manipulation.
I found the scene via disk intros, then via Internet and have followed ever sense. The art is fast, beautiful, thought provoking and fun.
If we did not have a scene to inspire, challenge, express the rage, party, I thimk we would have missed out on a coupla generations of talent thst could have easily remained latent. My own, such as it is, too.
I have made e-paper run at 13 + FPS and have an asteroids type game almost done.
Lots of extra colors, screen hacks, on most of this list... Copying that which they said cannot be copied... Data recovery, debugging, assrmbly language, machine language... almost all of it influenced by scene members who shared.
Honestly, it is kind of beautiful. Watch, be amazed, investigate, remix if warranted, make magic, share, wash rinse repeat... And with great power comes great responsibility. I never felt pushed to some dark behavior. I felt pushed to learn, play, share.
Nothing wrong with that.
Thank you all you sceners. I sure had fun and may be at a party yet.
I do not believe the scene will die. It will evolve. It will go where the limits are and then push past them.
- I just noticed the shipping...I guess if you have $4400 to throw around the $650 extra is nothing.
- Anyone know if these were only USA released ? I thought I was a fan of the iPod when it was a thing but I had no idea this was out there. Maybe it also got a UK release?
- Great! I think we would all like to read your recollections and musings about retro computing. There are a few authors that post their work here and to the orange site on a regular basis, I hope you can be amongst them.
- Sound blaster changed gaming on the PC. I was at my buddies and we hooked the Sound Blaster to his stereo. The sound that came out of those speakers was just awesome. Doom, X-wing, kings quest. So so much better…
- I'd been using Foxit PDF reader because of its small size and corresponding fast startup speed. That has ballooned to 200MB now as well, and I'm now using the PDF support built in to the browser (Firefox being my browser of choice). Firefox is, as of today, a 68MB download for the installer, and it does a while lot more than display PDFs.
A little disgusting that Adobe creates a file literally 10x the size of a full-featured browser yet having a small subset of the functionality.
- Author here. Thanks for sharing this. I was intending to make a more formal announcement of the new blog here and on HN after it had a bit more meat on it, but I hope it is of interest to people, nonetheless.
- That image was very famous during the 80s and early 90s. The amount of artistry involved in producing the image is incredible. I never knew that Avril Harrison did the box art for prince of Persia. Incredible.
- I can relate to the obsession of going to the mall in hopes of seeing a glimpse of any new kit coming to market. I felt the desire to see the 1400xl and 1450xld but it was not to be and signalling the end of the 8.bit era.
- I’m looking forward to more posts in this new blog, he does a bit of an intro here:
https://stonetools.ghost.io/introducing/
I saw the author also has a bunch of interesting Pico-8 software developments in the same vein:
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