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It would be a shame not to mention Jim Leonard's 8088 Domination, which pioneered (I think) the whole idea in 2014 for the original IBM PC, by also converting B
by anyfoo 6y ago
It would be a shame not to mention Jim Leonard's 8088 Domination, which pioneered (I think) the whole idea in 2014 for the original IBM PC, by also converting Bad Apple as full-motion video into 8086 machine code (8088 is the same software-wise)!
https://trixter.oldskool.org/2014/06/19/8088-domination-post-mortem-part-1/ https://trixter.oldskool.org/2014/06/19/8088-domination-post...
The video is linked at the top of the excellent writeup, the Bad Apple part starts after an initial color video part.
It's truly amazing, and I wonder what I would have felt if I had seen that on an IBM PC back in its day.
- rangibaby 6y ago> It's truly amazing, and I wonder what I would have felt if I had seen that on an IBM PC back in its day. I felt the same way about the 8088 MPH demo, knowledge that the original IBM PC could do that would have had unimaginable effects.
- Klaster_1 6y agoI still remember how suprised I was when I saw Jim's familiar face in "8088 Domination" credits. He's a co-founder of MobyGames, to which I dedicated several years of my youth and still remember fondly. If you read this, thank you.
- prpl 6y agoPioneered? I remember creating videos for my TI-83+ in 2000 (z80): https://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/4/41/41557.html https://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/4/41/41557.htm...
- anyfoo 6y agoThanks, I wasn't aware (hence the "I think" in parentheses in my original comment). It's not entirely clear from the very short article, but "outputting a compiled TI-83 assembly program" seems to indicate that that was indeed a similar approach already.