Area 5150 Demo @ Evoke 2022. IBM PC 5150 with 4.77MHz Intel 8088 CPU and CGA. "no composite tricks" TTL CGA only. It starts by doing a 640x200 image at 16 colors on a graphics card that can only do two colors at that resolution and only gets better. 640kb is enough for everyone.

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[–]Alphix 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I am not sure I understand: is this newly-written software on that old hardware, demonstrating its absolute ultimate capabilities? Or old software and people are cheering ... why?

I mean, it truly is kind of impressive what they could do on such old hardware, but what is the point? Some people are that much into retro tech?

Personally I have had computers since 1981 and I have endured their limitations for that long, I could not cheer this, I think.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

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[–]Alphix 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ah, pretty cool! :-)