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I'm a former Jaguar developer too, and reading the article was a strange experience, remembering things from ages ago. I'd forgotten most of the details, as we
by jlokier 7y ago
I'm a former Jaguar developer too, and reading the article was a strange experience, remembering things from ages ago. I'd forgotten most of the details, as well as how it felt.
Also the Atari ST mention. I'm getting all sorts of 80s and 90s flashbacks from that story, of what it "felt" like to program on those machines.
All those fiendishly clever timing and register hacks to make the video and audio hardware do things it wasn't designed to do, well outside their design parameters, and other tricks to make 8-bit and 16-bit machines generally do things nobody thought possible, until it was.
That feeling is something I miss a bit, as it's difficult to find tricks that make the "impossible" possible on modern hardware.
[Edit: I suppose Spectre and friends qualify :-)]
- alexisread 7y agoThe stories of the ST (AMY chip http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8bits/XL/ASG/Chips/AMY/ http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8bits/XL/ASG/Chips/AMY/), STE botched launch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oarR61SeY8E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oarR61SeY8E), Falcon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBTXGgb__y4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBTXGgb__y4), Lynx (https://www.mentalfloss.com/uk/games/36270/atari-lynx-the-worlds-first-colour-handheld-games-console https://www.mentalfloss.com/uk/games/36270/atari-lynx-the-wo...) and Jaguar (see other comments in this thread) all make great stories! Some of the stuff that were done on the machines is jaw dropping - realtime raytracing on the Falcon for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cKRZ8QgH5o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cKRZ8QgH5o Doom on the Atari ST (not Wolfenstein, more sophisticated with heightmaps, lighting, 64 colours etc): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCvx2O5M69E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCvx2O5M69E Complex texturemapping on Atari ST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHwUchzEG8k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHwUchzEG8k Polygon landscapes on the Lynx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPexnRsNJDs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPexnRsNJDs
- rasz 7y agoYou forgot stock 16MHz 1992 Falcon Quake 2 engine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpwlZgQPCpk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpwlZgQPCpk