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Now if you could just play more than bleeps and blops through the PC-bucket's speakers while running demo effects, you will have reached parity with the Commodore64. It only took the PC-bucket 40 years to start to catch up...

Cool. What are the system requirements?

Ear warning at 8:27 haha

Круть!

Just insane.

“So, your new video game console has tile graphics, a programmable sound generator, and a DPCM channel? Hold my registers.”

Is there anywhere this patch can be found presently? The link in the description is broken.

The best CGA Graphics I have ever seen. I think some of them rivaled EGA or early VGA! It is clearly drawing with more colors than CGA originally was designed for (4-colors in graphics mode and 16 colors in text mode). Is this done with scanline swaps, by exploiting the ASCII Art text mode characters into custom ones, or does the CGA hardware have extra modes that were not documented, or ?

I decided to listen to a playlist of tracker music CZcams decided to hit me in the gut with pre-COVID nostalgia

The nazi rap sounds like subway surfers

Honestly why is everyone ignoring the sound? This is the fucking speaker. Only way I can see that working is a straight DMA to the timer chip while another timer controls the DMA just to get all this smooth video. The 6850 also gives you insane control over the video and was designed with the idea that you could "add on" to it. Not that anyone did. Tech just moved to fast:P

I wanna return to Wolfenstein 3D. These songs are awesome!

Oh My God! How the credits music was made with ONLY The PC Speaker??????

What's the game at 2:48 ?

How do I use this? I have the video file, FFMPEG, the .bat file and the .cfg file in one folder. I run the .bat and it instantly closes. Edit: I did the thing

Weird how i ended up in the part of the net who all collectively worhsip the chaos god. That seems tactical.

Did you release downloadable .a2m?

How the f*ck?! Amazing.

Kekistani Mainframe showing renewed signs of activity...

I appreciate the detail in the description 👍

Can any of these tricks be generalised / made into general purpose? Of course I want this turned into a (newer) Windows CGA display driver. Maybe it would even work it you could match a CGA video card to a (bit more) modern CPU.

I tested it on an 8088 laptop with a CGA card (from: Ali Express). How do the graphics in a high resolution work? Is that text mode with a modified character set?

Insane!

Astonishing. Back in early 1992, my old man brought a PC back from work, as they were chucking it out - an IBM XT with CGA display, two floppy drives, 512K of RAM and a broken hard drive. I was 12, and fascinated by it - but the blocky text, four colour display wasn't going to set the world alight (aside from a Breakout clone which had 16, much to my puzzlement, of course it was using the "160x100" trick). I still used it daily - as a games machine, of course, and eventually managed to find a copy of Windows 3.0 for it. It was unusably slow... you could see the window elements being drawn one by one, and it was in 640x200 mono only. The following year we bought a VGA card and monitor for it (not that Windows could use it, turns out the VGA driver has 80186 code in it), and I still remember how Prince of Persia went from looking awful to superb, and how sharp the text became. In late 1994 we bought a 486 and the poor old XT was given away to a friend. Seeing this 32 years on from those days, running on CGA... absolutely incredible. Not only figuring out the various tricks, but implementing them with that painfully slow hardware.... astonishing. A hearty "well done" to the talented coders, for pulling off the seemingly impossible. I can only imagine what the IBM folks would have made of this back in the day!

Amazing thanks for sharing 👏😎

Wait, what did I just see? I... I don't... understand... losing... mind...

I had a neighbor that worked for IBM that was on a team that was working on porting this to a PCjr cartridge. It never happened, because IBM discontinued the Junior and but he did download a copy of the PC version of this game off the mainframe, among other programs and made disks for us to use on our Tandy 1000ex

True computer effect's is very nice and speed screen change with wave music in demo - more cool for view.👏🎞⌨😯😇

What sorcery is this?! Guess I’ve underestimated the CGA card all this time.

Funk You is the best one in this, hands down

But how ??? Using the CGA connection, not the composite ? And the standard CGA 16KB ????

Iam Loving everything about this video.

Would it be possible to simulate 640x400 by using only one pixel of every ANSI a character? Or is that way too CPU intensive for stock 8088?

Text Mode doesn't work this way (trust me, I have tried)

Really well done.... pushing the hardware to it's absolute limit! 👍

Awesome! To think that today's infinitely faster computers struggle with running MS Teams...

I just discovered your website and channel! I love your retro content! I grew up on DOS and now I use Linux most of the time. I have a love for all things old.

This fpga implementation PC-XT is nearly to complete the challenge czcams.com/video/98-jZYdidnA/video.html

Чернобелый экран более естественный чем жёлтый и зелёный

unbelievable 👀

It was so much simpler back then.

Nice!

Nice!

Impossible!

Shadilay

Praise KEK

masterpiece

A good demo looks like magic. When I saw the graphics appear, I thought "no big deal, he's switching modes in the middle of a frame. All that takes is good timing." And then the text appeared next to the graphics. I gasped out loud.

What the hell!!! How did you this from a CGA?! Also sound is a masterpiece

I love how this brings 8088 emulators to their knees