Re: Video demo on a 1541.

From: Francesco Messineo <francesco.messineo_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2021 10:10:10 +0200
Message-ID: <CAESs-_z4ji9Fik6YJdeuWrHft2JDkd7Vb67GhE_jfG0BdVL5mw_at_mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 10:06 AM Gerrit Heitsch
<gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de> wrote:
>
> On 7/8/21 9:47 AM, Francesco Messineo wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 7:18 PM Gerrit Heitsch <gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> If you haven't seen it... Another contender for doing impossible things
> >> with a 6502:
> >>
> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zprSxCMlECA
> >
> > I agree, this redefined the "impossible" level for a 1 MHz 6502 with
> > no video generation hardware of any kind.
>
> ... on a system with only 2 KB of RAM. Yes, not the whole demo is kept
> in RAM, but having to load from disk while playing the demo only
> increases the difficulty.


considering it's using the mechanic as audio generator too :)
I assume the data on disk doesn't need to be GCR-decoded once it's
loaded in RAM at this point, or it would be even crazier.

Frank
Received on 2021-07-08 11:03:28

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