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1981 IBM Model 5150 Running Full-Motion Color Video watch!

techeblog.com — ...a modder hacked one of these 4.77MHz wonders (640K RAM + 10MB HDD) to play full motion color video, running at 30fps.

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  • r4ge, on 01/02/2008, -12/+15I would like to see some software specs.
    • vroom101, on 01/02/2008, -2/+29I'm guessing the software is written in assembly language, and clever tricks are been used to manipulate the CGA video adapter; the video interrupt handler may also have been customized. IBM had excellent and very detailed documentation for the PC XT and AT hardware, as well as for the plugin adapaters -- schematics, BIOS listing . . . all the good stuff. But back to the CGA video card: If I recall correctly you had to know what you were doing otherwise you could wreck the monitor.
      • hadak, on 01/02/2008, -1/+16Actually, this is old news. They display the video using ASCII, which can be rendered much faster and with much less graphics processing power than a FMV.
        • Urusai, on 01/02/2008, -0/+13The text buffer is mapped to segment 0xB800 (IIRC) and they are just copying stuff over it using REP MOVSW. No processing, just moving of bytes.
    • Dylson, on 01/02/2008, -8/+1I was expecting pr0n.
    • jellygraph, on 01/02/2008, -12/+5why was r4ge dugg down?
      • dezman2003, on 01/02/2008, -0/+5Hold on a sec I'll go ask the anonymous people on some unknown part of the earth why they dugg him down. You wait here.
      • Dustmuffins, on 01/02/2008, -0/+4It's all your fault, I hope you're happy.
      • kenyan, on 01/02/2008, -0/+2Same reason you are dugg down...It's because both of you have an R in your handles.
        • geoff1210, on 01/02/2008, -3/+2because you touch yourself at night.
        • rkbabang, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1Oh no! The anti-R movement strikes again. These are the same people who go around bury All the Ron Paul articles. And of course my comments.
        • jellygraph, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1geoff:
          aw, man?? you guys know about that? i keep forgetting to close my blinds, damn
    • tnoy, on 01/02/2008, -0/+17http://www.archive.org/details/8088CorruptionExpla ...

      He explains exactly how he does it in the video here.
    • JettaMan, on 01/02/2008, -1/+2Tron is appropriate seeing as it came out about the same time as the IBM-PC. Just think it could have been playing the same movie back then.
    • punx777, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1That's pretty god damn impressive.
    • themastersb, on 01/02/2008, -0/+5If only he managed this 20 years or so ago.
    • vroom101, on 01/02/2008, -0/+4This link is your friend...
      http://www.oldskool.org/pc/8088_Corruption
    • xmod3, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1Wow, this guy's a genius. Nintendo should hire him immediately!!!!
      • andyakadum, on 01/02/2008, -0/+3Yeah, maybe he can get the wii to display full-motion color video. :D
  • Krumm, on 01/02/2008, -19/+150Smoother video than my dual core Vista machine when you try to use the network during playback!
    Dugg for sheer awesomeness...(& Tron).
    • chingy1788, on 01/02/2008, -45/+17well at least you can get the video to play on vista, anything on linux takes at least 3 trial and error google searches and trying out several solutions, and that gets you no where
      then you go on to some forums and no one responds to you
      eventually you give up and dump XP back on, then you can enjoy your video
      • riah, on 01/02/2008, -5/+30or just use vlc.. (what's with the unnecessary FUD?)
        • Chirp08, on 01/02/2008, -19/+8I must be the only person in the world who cant stand vlc, everything about it is awkward and counter intuitive, not to mention it is slow compared to native media players on windows/osx. I honestly had a better user experience with real player then VLC :/
          • PleaseJustDie, on 01/02/2008, -2/+10yeah the whole VCR-like interface is incredibly complex and the excellent video quality at a flawless framerate is so slow too.
          • sirbeta, on 01/02/2008, -0/+5I actually use VLC for most of my stuff (in Windows), since it's one of the few players that doesn't like to pretend it can't play DVDs without a $30 "premium codec"
          • lengau, on 01/02/2008, -1/+2II use VLC on Windows and Mac (because I have yet to find a better video player on either platform), but on Linux I use Kaffeine (better interface and, with the right codecs installed, plays some stuff that even VLC can't).
            So no. You're not alone in not being able to stand VLC, but you are alone in preferring other players in Windows/OS X.
        • sirbeta, on 01/02/2008, -0/+3I'm used to that sort of comment (and I'm surprised you aren't). The only difference to the normal FUD is he swapped out the original linux/mac fanboy perspective for one against Linux. It's still as retarded as the originals, but humorous to see it turned around.
        • Gir53457, on 01/02/2008, -0/+3Seriously, I hate linux and even I could get VLC running on the first try.
      • smurf22, on 01/02/2008, -5/+22Or you can download a freaking codec and stop being a noob.
      • vibrokatana, on 01/02/2008, -1/+11umm, video playback work out of the box for me. Maybe you confused that with windows which requires you to download a player that supports the codecs you want to play?
      • twtmc, on 01/02/2008, -6/+11If you can't figure out how to play a simple video on linux, please don't use the internet. We don't need more morons on here. GTFO.
        • ramsinks.com, on 01/02/2008, -7/+2Wow, your so cool.. thank you for commenting.
      • lonnieh, on 01/02/2008, -4/+9or just open it up with the media player included with ubuntu 7.10. sounds like you are an idiot, so lucky for you, gstreamer will detect the necessary codec and locate it for you. eventually, only you will dump XP back on because you miss bonzai buddy, then you can enjoy your gay porn collection. btw, ***** off.
      • subterfuge, on 01/02/2008, -3/+7i just watched that video. i use linux.
      • jellygraph, on 01/02/2008, -2/+6chingy... you just made an ass of yourself. you obviously don't know much. I haven't had to install any codecs or anything in over a year or so (ubuntu / linux mint) - unlike XP, which doesn't support most codecs without requiring you go download it of get some bundle (divx / xvid, etc)
        • Monstradamus, on 01/02/2008, -2/+2really? I had to install new video soft the very first day of using linux... same as the very first day of using XP... or any other OS for that matter
      • chingy1788, on 01/02/2008, -5/+1Anti-Linux Party Rules!!!
    • casual7y, on 01/02/2008, -3/+6you must have a pretty crappy machine then.
    • noseeme, on 01/02/2008, -0/+8Protip: You are doing it wrong.
    • xmod3, on 01/02/2008, -3/+1Wow, this guy's a genius. Nintendo should hire him immediately!!!!
    • rkuchiki, on 01/02/2008, -0/+2He quoted you on his site: http://www.oldskool.org/pc/8088_Corruption/#dh
  • Biks, on 01/02/2008, -8/+85Was this a RECENT hack? What person is still screwing with these machines? And if so...why wasn't anyone doing this back in 1981? (or was the idea of full video on a PC too nuts to even conceive of?)
    • Chirp08, on 01/02/2008, -1/+38seriously, can you imagine where video technology would be today if the porn industry got ahold of this on the computer in 1981??
    • Gordo0852, on 01/02/2008, -0/+20nah. This was done a few years ago. I remember seeing it before.
    • vibrokatana, on 01/02/2008, -1/+14back then video encoding would take a month or dozen to do.
      • UtopiaInTheSky, on 01/02/2008, -7/+2A dozen months usually equals one year...
        • sirbeta, on 01/02/2008, -2/+13Usually?
          • BladeMelbourne, on 01/02/2008, -0/+7Except back when October was the 8th month and December was the 10th month.
          • Creamedweasel, on 01/02/2008, -0/+7Ah, those were the good days.
          • terminal157, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1Well, there is "leap month" to take into account.
          • praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -0/+3Lousy Smarch weather...
          • DJMajickman, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1well if it's a bakers dozen than it's more then a year :)
      • joshuaer, on 01/02/2008, -0/+2actually they did every thing in real time back then using hardware rendering and messing with vector scopes while the video was playing, find some old MTV videos from 1981 and you will see what i am talking about!
    • monospaced, on 01/02/2008, -14/+3What's the big deal? A couple of years later the Nintendo was offering full color video with sound. Obviously this guy ran a program to change a limited number of large pixels around on that old computer, which isn't that impressive in the scope of the technology at that time.
    • tidu, on 01/02/2008, -0/+21why wasn't someone doing this in 1981? Can I ask why you're not simulating holograms on your current PC?
      • Protonz, on 01/02/2008, -1/+2720 years from now they will be simulating holograms on our current PCs...
      • subterfuge, on 01/02/2008, -0/+22if you simulate a hologram on a 2-dimensional screen, isnt that just . . . a video?
      • Biks, on 01/02/2008, -1/+4I dunno...that's what I asking. Is it just that we THINK we can't..or we actually can't with todays "basic" computer? It was impossible to fly until the Wrights Bros had an aluminum engine. (weight to power ratio, etc.) Can someone PROVE that we can't do holograms now? My point: is it mental or the metal?
        • Elliuotatar, on 01/02/2008, -0/+4People didn't do FMV because it didn't make sense to, not because they didn't know they could do it. As I outlined below, the disk space requirements and costs associated with getting the video onto the PC made it prohibitive.
    • Elliuotatar, on 01/02/2008, -3/+76Well, they're plotting what are practically 40x20 graphics. (Though some blocks on the screen appear to be subdivided a little more the majority are huge.) A 40x20 16 color video video that is two minutes long with 16 colors at 30 fps would display 24,000 "pixels" per second. Each 16 color pixel requires 4 bits, so divide that in half to get 12,000 bytes per second. Multiply that by 120 seconds and you get 1,440,000 bytes. Then add sound. Two minutes, 8 bit, let's say 8,000hz... That's 960,000 bytes there. So you're talking 2.5 megabytes.

      Now consider that the floppies only held 360K, and you're talking a 7 disk install, which was unheard of back then. It would have taken about 15-30 minutes to load each disk onto the PC. And for what? A blocky FMV for a game? Back then games didn't have FMV. Getting video onto a PC would also have been expensive, and games back then were written by one or two guys in their basement.

      That said, I did see years ago, FMV on the Amiga. So there may have been some FMV demos on those old PC's. But that's all they would have been in. Demos. And I don't mean game demos. I mean music videos made by programmers to show off how good they are. The demo scene's not what it used to be now that 3D graphics are easy to do. But back then demos were all the rage as coders tired to get as much as they could out of the hardware.

      Which is probably why this guy did this. It's too easy to do cool graphics now. So he tried to make something cool on crappy hardware.
      • Tanooki, on 01/02/2008, -0/+7This Trixter guy actually is an oldschool demo coder.
      • hello2usir, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1CGA is 4 colors.
        • Elliuotatar, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1That's what I thought, but I cheked wikipedia, and that's only in certain graphics modes.
      • justice7, on 01/04/2008, -0/+1dont forget he could have used simple compression
    • RoboRay, on 01/02/2008, -1/+14"Now consider that the floppies only held 360K, and you're talking a 7 disk install, which was unheard of back then."

      You're assuming that the machine had a hard drive to install TO. :p
    • r3zonance, on 01/02/2008, -0/+2Add on top of that that the soundblaster didn't exist in 1981 either. The most sophisticated home computer sound chip in 1981 was in the C64.
    • DestroyFascism, on 01/02/2008, -0/+3I think a hard drive with 500 mb cost $mega in 1981 yeah?
      • zulelord, on 01/02/2008, -0/+3They didn't have them for consumers... I paid $600+ for a 20MB HD in 1988.
    • TechCF, on 01/02/2008, -0/+2Yes people still use these old machines. Welcome to the demoscene
  • TGMD, on 01/02/2008, -3/+33I miss the good old days of tech....
    • Camphlobactor, on 01/02/2008, -0/+10l miss the good old days.
    • tgc1, on 01/02/2008, -2/+3No DRM, no copy protection. I would go buy a box with a game in it, and i'd load it up on my computer and be playing in like 4 minutes. Now... pfft.... forget it. The last game I purchased was StarCraft. I think it will be my last.
      • hyperfocal, on 01/02/2008, -0/+3Copy protection was all over old games. C64 games, Apple II games. Even old PC games had crappy DRM schemes.

        The original Simcity had a dark red sheet (red paper shows up black on photocopies) with codes you had to type in so the game would run. Other games would make you look up words in specific places in the manual.
        • tgc1, on 01/02/2008, -0/+0Funny enough you mention that. I remember buying street fighter 2 turbo on pc. It came on about 4 or 5 disks (floppies, remember those?). I thought oh good now I can play this on my pc. Yeah, not so fast. I had to pop out the instruction manual every ***** time I wanted to load it. And just like you said, look up words in the damn thing, most of the time were wrong and *****. Then I lost the manual and could never play the game again EVEN THOUGH I PURCHASED IT. And forever vowed to myself never to buy a game like that again. I think i've done well so far. Then again, I picked up this cheapy 5 dollar game in the game bin and went to play it, it ended up having starforce protection on it. Oh how I cursed that day. So as I said, Starcraft is my last game that i'll have purchased. The rest can go ***** off. I don't care how good they are.

          And if my console starts with this *****, i'm going to throw it out the ***** window.
    • xmod3, on 01/02/2008, -3/+1Wow, this guy's a genius. Nintendo should hire him immediately!!!!
  • truman48, on 01/02/2008, -19/+5I have a buddy that put 4 mac mini's in an old IBM XT/AT case and ran them as a cluster, hooked up to a 23" Apple display.
    • Jeffler, on 01/02/2008, -4/+10I have a $600 computer that probably runs around the same speed as that cluster at 1/4 of the price, hooked up to a 21" display that cost $180 instead of $700. Your point?
    • directive0, on 01/02/2008, -0/+13I have a bucket.
    • tnoy, on 01/02/2008, -1/+34 Dual-Core Minis will run you $2400. You can build an 8-core Xeon for less, and it will be faster.
      Clustering has its place, but rather useless and wasteful in the method your friend did.
  • joshuaer, on 01/02/2008, -17/+7I would not call that full motion or full color. it looks like 4 or 8 bit color and the motion does not look like it is running at a true 30fps (29.97) they where doing allot of video and computer effects back then. Now if they would have use that video for marketing back it would have been cool!
    • ebbv, on 01/02/2008, -13/+2People might take your comment more seriously if you took the time to learn to spell.

      "it looks like" --> "It looks like"
      "where" --> "were"
      "allot" --> "a lot"

      You also have no idea what you are talking about at all. To summarize you are an imbecile and should never open your mouth in public again.
      • joshuaer, on 01/02/2008, -1/+6I could read your post better if it was typed in German but you do not see me bitching ever time you post in english. But dumb ass people like you who think that every one knows perfect grammar in every language need to get some help. I just read something about the most literate cities in the usa the other day on digg. 2 of the top 5 are in the same state that leaves only 8 other states on the list maybe you should focus on the 42 other states before you start bitching about my spelling.
      • terminal157, on 01/02/2008, -2/+3Capitalization isn't a spelling issue, you judgmental jackass.
    • monospaced, on 01/02/2008, -3/+1Don't understand why he's being dugg down as he's entirely right, ebbv. It's a limited color palette at a very low resolution. Barely above what comparable Ataris and Amigas were doing at the same time.
      • Myztry, on 01/02/2008, -0/+2Above the Amiga... You idiot... The graphics used the IBM were akin to character graphics. The Amiga didn't have a graphics mode low enough to produce the same chunky minimal memory effect. It was on the other hand extensively used in video production... The Commodore 64 would have been a half decent comparison.
      • joshuaer, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1you are all a Bunch of Amiga Nerds do i have to dig my Amiga 2000 out and load up delux paint to hang out with you, Well good news I can.

        I just had a flash back when i hated Macs because i could not do any thing close to what i could do in Toast on an amiga and Windows just released windows paint.
  • MadSquirrel, on 01/02/2008, -0/+5Does anyone remember how much this system cost when they first came out?

    Just a question from someone who remembers:-)
    Oh, and it's cool mod.
    • haxorjoe, on 01/02/2008, -0/+11The base price was $2880 in 1981
      • AMSRay, on 01/02/2008, -0/+7A friend still has the paperwork where he paid Computerland $5198 for a PCXT with 640K ram and 10 mb hard drive with CGA graphics. I believe the base price of $2880 was with 16K ram, no hard drive and a single floppy drive (also no monitor).
      • petrodollar, on 01/02/2008, -11/+2Shhh, don't tell ron paul supporters who scream about inflation.
  • GeorgeWKush, on 01/02/2008, -5/+81How am I supposed to jerk off when my porn wouldn't look any better than Super Mario.
    • ncdave101, on 01/02/2008, -1/+51Just pretend it's Princess Peach like you always do....
      • PleaseJustDie, on 01/02/2008, -0/+8back then it was princess toadstool.
    • Chirp08, on 01/02/2008, -9/+4pretend its princess peach..
    • sstidman, on 01/02/2008, -1/+15Well, people managed to jerk off to ASCII porn back in the day. This is actually a step up.
      • kzathon, on 01/02/2008, -1/+16mmhmm, yes, "people"...
      • DestroyFascism, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1Teh old Video was being well shared in 1981.......
    • Zippo, on 01/02/2008, -1/+3People still jerk off to stranger things.
  • ObviousCat, on 01/02/2008, -12/+35Normally an old computer cannot run full-motion color video.
    • Myztry, on 01/02/2008, -0/+9Oh. Crap. The C64 demo scene did it all the time
      • darklights, on 01/02/2008, -0/+3The C64 had better graphics capabilities than the IBM 5150. Or at least the ability to have more than four colours on the screen at once. Impressive they did it with such a slow processor though.
        • Myztry, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1From memory, using character maps, the screen was 40 x 25 (1000 bytes) @ $400, plus there was the colormap (same size) which used the high and low nibble for foreground and background - 16 colours each. At 50 fps you could write each, and do some simple code, but only just. 30fps would've been much easier, but everyone worked at the refresh rate, or they looked like amateurs.
        • r3zonance, on 01/02/2008, -1/+1The VIC-II was responsible for most of the graphical prowess. The custom chip idea are what made the C64 and the Amiga so good for their CPU's power.
          • Myztry, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1The VIC-20 (not II) had nothing to do with the Amiga. The Amiga was totally independently developed and only came into Commodores hands afterwards due to funding issues.
    • Sirocco, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1Video quality is bad, but It looks like the app is running in text mode instead of video mode. That way you get more than 4 colors are some decent speed to boot.
    • azAZ09, on 01/02/2008, -0/+2Amiga
  • cozb, on 01/02/2008, -1/+99ah, to hear the clicking of a real keyboard again...
    • Elliuotatar, on 01/02/2008, -0/+2The kids these days probably don't know that back then the keyboards were made out of METAL. Well the keyboards on the PC anyway. The other ones were plastic.
    • basilbub, on 01/02/2008, -0/+2You still can:
      http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/keyboards.html
      • spudlyo, on 01/02/2008, -1/+1Those keyboards and the IBM Model M keyboard are alas not the same as the one pictured in the article. The IBM XT/AT keyboards had a slightly different buckling spring design, and if you can believe it, are even louder and more clicky than Model M and their ilk. I'm typing on one right now that I bought from clickykeyboards.com. It's a kick ass keyboard, the tactile response is amazing.

        http://tinyurl.com/2x4779
        • HappyScrappy, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1Honestly, I felt the 101-key was poop next to the PC/XT keyboard (84 key with the awful layout). The 84-key PC was just so much more stiff and loud than the 101. The AT (85 key with SysReq) was a good compromise, it had a better layout but still the original feel.

          Maybe I just said the same thing you did.
    • zachsandberg, on 01/02/2008, -0/+2The Model M is possibly the best keyboard ever designed. I have 2 of them, and are far superior to the crappy Chinese "keyboards" that come with post-1992 computers.
    • HappyScrappy, on 01/02/2008, -0/+3Model M.

      Type hard or go home.
    • Wacer, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1I love the old Northgate keyboards.
    • millertime588, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1Unicomp still makes clicky keyboards. I just got one for Christmas :)
  • BaderG, on 01/02/2008, -3/+7Sure it can do FVM, but can it play minesweeper?
    • assman665, on 01/02/2008, -0/+6Or, can you believe it, REVERSI! And its just 99 dollars!
    • Arkz, on 01/02/2008, -0/+3*Insert random comment about it running Crysis, Duke Nukem Forever or Doom*
  • identifiedlogo, on 01/02/2008, -16/+15better than Vista ....ooops!
  • ps2pers0n, on 01/02/2008, -42/+2I don't understand how this will help anyone or is supposed to be useful in any way. Great, you can play ***** video on a ***** pc. I don't give a ***** if you digg me down for being frank.
    • tidu, on 01/02/2008, -0/+9no, I'm digging you down for being a downer, regardless of your name
    • Mononuclear, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1290% of the things on the internet do not help anyone and aren't useful in any way. That doesn't mean it's not entertaining.
    • ps2pers0n, on 01/02/2008, -0/+0yea, man, what an ass.
    • scrappyvintage, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1I only digg people up for being thomas.
  • theghoul, on 01/02/2008, -6/+65A girlfriend have not you.
  • imightbewrong, on 01/02/2008, -2/+248088 ftw
  • loggia, on 01/02/2008, -4/+32In 30 years will my Alienware 7500 be used to fight robots in space as a test to prove "it could be done?"

    Just wonderin'
    • cdawzrd, on 01/02/2008, -0/+27Noob. Build your own.
      • omnipotent, on 01/02/2008, -0/+13You're just jealous you didn't get a credit card to max it out and buy an Alienware.

        But honestly, Alienware is for chumps.
    • terminal157, on 01/02/2008, -1/+2Yes. Yes it will.
  • mwang1999, on 01/02/2008, -0/+9It was most likely using color ASCII text mode (16 background/foreground colors) and extended ASCII characters which included things like filled blocks, etc. for pseudo-GUI applications.
  • Hawkeye05, on 01/02/2008, -3/+26Man, I want a beowulf cluster of these bad boys maybe 30 or 40 and i could play a DVD.
  • inditech, on 01/02/2008, -52/+5In color? In color? Speak bloody english!!!! Its COLOUR!!! with a f****** U! get it? we are NOT american! We speak ENGLISH! ITS 12/08/07 NOT 08/12/07. Sorry, will get my coat....
    • diggstown, on 01/02/2008, -1/+17I don't see a .co.uk at the end of any of these links so go screw.
    • Paranoidmarvin, on 01/02/2008, -12/+2Well, you get a digg up from me American dominance FTL
    • monospaced, on 01/02/2008, -1/+17Digg started in California, you wanker.
    • tidu, on 01/02/2008, -1/+18it's a ***** american website used primarily by americans

      is COLORED ARMOR HUMOROUS to you?
    • damndj, on 01/02/2008, -1/+2COLOR.

      Yah, I said it.
    • techweenie1, on 01/02/2008, -1/+2I do think all national and regional dialects of the English language should adopt a standardized / standardised spelling ... whether it be colour or color...it should be adopted across the board...on a side note I believe the u in colour comes from french influence, non?
      • terminal157, on 01/02/2008, -0/+2The argument against that generally has something to do with cultural diversity, but I don't get how spelling color with a 'u', or not, is of any cultural importance or value. Ideally, I would like a simplified spelling system that eliminates everything that has no irreplaceable function, such as the letter "c".

        Are you the techweenie I used to know, by the way?
        • techweenie1, on 01/02/2008, -0/+2yes Termy it is I...fancy seeing you here.
  • homersaysdoh, on 01/02/2008, -0/+34FINALLY! I've been waiting 27 years for this. Now I can trash my Core 2 quad comp and HDTV!
  • exomni, on 01/02/2008, -14/+1Psh, I could do that on my MacBook. Better.
  • bitterbug, on 01/02/2008, -4/+24Oh wow, I just had a dorkgasm.
  • keepinithamsta, on 01/02/2008, -1/+76That quality is better than some videos on youtube!
    • vibrokatana, on 01/02/2008, -1/+6sad but true. YouTube's encoding sucks.
    • geoff1210, on 01/02/2008, -0/+4Flash video is made of fail.
  • Frostman3D, on 01/02/2008, -15/+2HAHAHA!!!! ***** YOU APPLE PEEPS!!! I'd like to see that on an Apple IIe. And that was 8 years older.
    • cmuwriter, on 01/02/2008, -1/+4Yeah but could you play Oregon Trail on the PC? I don't know, but thats what I did on my Apple 2
  • johnfritz, on 01/02/2008, -0/+13Yeah, the video demo was cool but the clickin'/clackin' keyboard was way better! We all forget just how good we had it back then....
  • control98408, on 01/02/2008, -2/+1Now porn compatible!
  • s.mint_inner, on 01/02/2008, -4/+8http://www.hackaday.com/2006/01/23/full-motion-vid ...
    Old news, well maybe to digg.
    • tnoy, on 01/02/2008, -1/+3Old news to hack-a-day, too. The video was made in 2004.
  • TheN0id, on 01/02/2008, -8/+0It is ASCII!!! There where ASCII animation programs available then, the only even slightly impressive aspect of that video is the music, and even then only if the sound wasn't produced by a separately recorded track.
  • waxonwaxoff, on 01/02/2008, -10/+1End of line....
  • waxonwaxoff, on 01/02/2008, -10/+1End of line.....
    • superspud, on 01/02/2008, -0/+3Twice?
      • waxonwaxoff, on 01/02/2008, -4/+0Yeah, sorry. It's my first time posting on Digg. When I refreshed the page, the comment was gone. Hence the double post.
      • Hoxie, on 01/02/2008, -0/+3Pwned Pwned
  • Koski, on 01/02/2008, -0/+2This...is awesome.
  • RedHerringHack, on 01/02/2008, -0/+15Isn't this the machine John Titor was looking for?
  • MScrip, on 01/02/2008, -1/+2Did the computer play the audio too, or was it dubbed?
    • Frostman3D, on 01/02/2008, -3/+3That's pushing it. lol
    • marciot, on 01/02/2008, -1/+6The computer was playing the audio through a SoundBlaster card.
  • marciot, on 01/02/2008, -0/+11
    You can download it here:

    http://www.oldskool.org/pc/8088_Corruption

    Works fine in the DOS prompt under XP. I tried running this on an HP100LX palmtop computer, which is a faithful reproduction of the PC XT, and I was disappointed that this required a SoundBlaster card and there are no command line switches to disable it. This is a major disappointment :(

    • Trixter, on 01/02/2008, -0/+5Having a soundcard is one way I designed the system, but it is possible to alter it a bit. Email me as a reminder :-)
    • connieLingus, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1uhh dude last time i checked old SB cards cost like a dollar at the used electronics store.
  • gamemaster357, on 01/02/2008, -2/+16if he is able to achieve full motion video at 30FPS on a 4.77MHZ processor
    can you imagine what he could do given the right funding for research?
    • int19h, on 01/02/2008, -0/+3Knowing some of the old guys from the demoscene, I wouldn't be surprised if he does that as well.
    • azAZ09, on 01/02/2008, -1/+1Yeah! just imagine --maybe he could even get that machine match 1995 standards!
  • blacklabelrum, on 01/02/2008, -1/+1got porn?
  • spoulson, on 01/02/2008, -4/+10*Yawn* This is really nothing compared to what the demoscene still does with C64, Amiga, Atari ST, and etc. at demo compos. http://www.pouet.net for proof.
  • Davolo, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1Dunno how old the video is but the track playing over the top came out in 2002.
  • oOLiquidNightOo, on 01/02/2008, -0/+3wasn't john titor looking for one of these?
  • HappyScrappy, on 01/02/2008, -0/+5Of course it can do full-motion at low enough resolution. It's likely running in text mode or the 160x100 hack mode. Plenty of demos did this a long time ago.
  • UtopiaInTheSky, on 01/02/2008, -0/+3Anyone else notice that McDonald's cup? lol.
  • lifeinanalog, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1Now I need to find one to use as my HTPC!
  • LordVoldemort, on 01/02/2008, -0/+2Shows you that optimization is always worthwhile.
  • pimpofpixels, on 01/02/2008, -0/+4Seconds later.... Digital porn was born.
  • Virgule, on 01/02/2008, -1/+5My first computer was a 8086. I had the good idea of running "compare" between WordPerfect and Lotus123 floppies very early in the morning. beeeeeep beeeeeep beeeeeep beeeeeep beeeeeep beeeeeep beeeeeeeeeep beeeeeeeep beeeeeeeep beeeeeep beeeeeep beeeeeep beeeeeep beeeeeep beeeeeep beeeeeep beeeeeep beeeeeep beeeeeep beeeeeep beeeeeep beeeeeep beeeeeep beeeeeep beeeeeep beeeeeep beeeeeep beeeeeep beeeeeep beeeeeep...
    Im not as smart as that guy
  • danjal, on 01/02/2008, -1/+4all the hating against this being done just reminds me how much people take for granted in the PC industry..
  • KevinAndAlexRoc, on 01/02/2008, -6/+8Are you guys serious? This hack was done over two years ago, its OLD news.
  • pencilneck, on 01/02/2008, -1/+8Cool to see the demoscene get some exposer here at Digg. Trixter is from the old school scene and has done a LOT for the scene (new and old). Cool little intro. Would like to see some other old schoolers from Future Crew, Triton or S!P lay down some code.
  • darklights, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1Can anyone identify that tune for me?
  • jer.williams, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1This was on the frontpage almost two years ago. Was even on Diggnation and compared to Google video quality if I recall (as a tongue-in-cheek poke on Google).

    http://digg.com/hardware/(Video)_8088_Corruption.. ...

    Still, glad to see it getting love.
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