10 May
2007
10 May
'07
10:05 p.m.
Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
It was jaw dropping incredible stuff like this, that
got me into the
field. Funny thing now is, I'm so jaded by technology, so little gets
me excited anymore with modern pc's and technology, but gimme a Vax or
an Atari or the like, stuff is far more interesting and exciting. I
think it has to do with how challenging it is to have these systems do
what modern systems do transparently with little to no intervention.
This is the heart of my hobby. Twenty years ago I loved trying to coax
more than one simultaneous voice out of my PC speaker... played with
real-time 3D... etc. Even in the 1990s, I dorked with VGA trying to get
more than 256 simultaneous colors out of it (with some success,
actually). It's why, 25+ years later, my favorite thing to do is
program assembler on my 5150.
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