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Can I see the described Boo video without needing an emulator? EDIT: I think it’s this? https://youtu.be/FpGwT0QqJbY https://youtu.be/FpGwT0QqJbY
by petesergeant 3y ago
Can I see the described Boo video without needing an emulator?
EDIT: I think it’s this? https://youtu.be/FpGwT0QqJbY https://youtu.be/FpGwT0QqJbY
- tleb_ 3y agoThe csdb.dk entry linked in the post has a YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaCisnpvvTU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaCisnpvvTU
- weinzierl 3y agoIf anyone wonders why it starts with a lot of character garbage on the screen: I can be wrong, but I think it is usually the decompression. The demo is only 4K in size, but gets expanded after loading so it fills the entirety of the available memory. Not to waste space for the decompression routine, it runs directly in the video RAM which is latter overwritten. What you can see is literally program execution, with the fastest changing characters often being inner loop vars.
- egypturnash 3y agoYes; throwing the decompression routine and/or its variables into screen RAM also has the bonus of making it obvious to the user that something is happening without spending any time implementing a progress bar. Sometimes there's text like "Decrunching..." or "SuperPacker2.4 by c00lDude/TLA".