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So being horribly pedantic, but: That's a PC, not an XT.

by mjg59 13y ago

kps 13y ago
Yes (assuming the author is correct in calling it a 5150), but it seems doubtful that a clip of any length would play on a stock, non-upgraded PC.
- crististm 13y ago
  The demoscene guys can do a lot of stuff in 64K. It is not doubtful at all after you've seen one of the demos.
  - enneff 13y ago
    The 64k and 4k demos do a lot of pre-calculation to generate impressive imagery and sounds. The modern size-coded demos all take advantage of the massive processing power present in modern machines. This demo does the reverse—almost everything is precomputed and stored in a file format that is easy for the puny processor of the 8088 to play back at a decent frame rate. Without storage space (the demo requires a multi-megabyte hard disc on which to store the "video" file) the aproach would be a non-starter.
    - crististm 13y ago
      You probably don't remember but the demoscene started more than 20 years ago when the hw was very limited. The movies we're talking about last only a few tens of seconds at _very low_ resolution. You certainly don't need multi-megabyte storage for them
      - enneff 13y ago
        I know when and how the demo scene started. I have been involved with the scene most of my life and have several competition-rated productions to my name. Read the damn article (and maybe my post) before being so condescending. The "8088 Corruption" demo is 9.3 megabytes.
greenyoda 13y ago
It looks like an XT to me. The PC/XT looked identical to the original PC, except that the XT had one of the two floppy drives replaced with a 10mb hard drive. You can see that in the video at about 0:38: the floppy is on the left, the hard drive is on the right, with a light flashing on it as the data loads. (The next model, the PC/AT, looked different from the original PC.)
- mjg59 13y ago
  The author claims it's a 5150 (ie, a PC), and it's fairly reasonable to believe that it's an after-market hard drive.

So being horribly pedantic, but: That's a PC, not an XT.

by mjg59 13y ago

So being horribly pedantic, but: That's a PC, not an XT.

kps 13y ago

Yes (assuming the author is correct in calling it a 5150), but it seems doubtful that a clip of any length would play on a stock, non-upgraded PC.

crististm 13y ago
The demoscene guys can do a lot of stuff in 64K. It is not doubtful at all after you've seen one of the demos.
- enneff 13y ago
  The 64k and 4k demos do a lot of pre-calculation to generate impressive imagery and sounds. The modern size-coded demos all take advantage of the massive processing power present in modern machines. This demo does the reverse—almost everything is precomputed and stored in a file format that is easy for the puny processor of the 8088 to play back at a decent frame rate. Without storage space (the demo requires a multi-megabyte hard disc on which to store the "video" file) the aproach would be a non-starter.
  - crististm 13y ago
    You probably don't remember but the demoscene started more than 20 years ago when the hw was very limited. The movies we're talking about last only a few tens of seconds at _very low_ resolution. You certainly don't need multi-megabyte storage for them
    - enneff 13y ago
      I know when and how the demo scene started. I have been involved with the scene most of my life and have several competition-rated productions to my name. Read the damn article (and maybe my post) before being so condescending. The "8088 Corruption" demo is 9.3 megabytes.

greenyoda 13y ago

It looks like an XT to me. The PC/XT looked identical to the original PC, except that the XT had one of the two floppy drives replaced with a 10mb hard drive. You can see that in the video at about 0:38: the floppy is on the left, the hard drive is on the right, with a light flashing on it as the data loads. (The next model, the PC/AT, looked different from the original PC.)

mjg59 13y ago
The author claims it's a 5150 (ie, a PC), and it's fairly reasonable to believe that it's an after-market hard drive.