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It is much more programmable than I expected. Even for the slow speeds of the day, it looks like animations and display updates could happen locally and that th
by sitkack 5y ago
It is much more programmable than I expected. Even for the slow speeds of the day, it looks like animations and display updates could happen locally and that the systems could be made to be fairly responsive.
Joining displays together, scaling modes, pixel, line and text drawing and conditional subroutines, and all in 30 ish pages.
When did any PC display get hardware line drawing? It would be fun to implement Logo that interacted with the light pen for creating generative L-systems.
*edit I found a video linked by Don Hopkins of Conway's Game of Life running on a 340 display https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB78NXH77s4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB78NXH77s4