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8088 Domination: Video capture from an IBM PC 5160
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8088 Domination: Video capture from an IBM PC 5160
Jim Leonard
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Jim Leonard demonstrates full-motion color video and audio playback on a 1981 IBM PC using advanced optimization techniques.
Video capture of my @party 2014 winning compo entry "8088 Domination", an official sequel to 8088 Corruption (youtube.com/watch?v=H1p1im_2uf4) that I made 10 years earlier. Like the former, 8088 Domination displays full-motion color video with audio on a 1981 IBM PC with CGA, a Sound Blaster, and any hard drive -- but, unlike the former, Domination uses full graphics mode whereas Corruption used only text mode. This is significant because graphics mode requires 8x more memory and processing, and I had to combine a lot of creative and technical disciplines in order to pull it off. This video is a capture of 8088 Domination running directly off of my IBM PC 5160; video is the composite CGA output signal, and audio is from a Sound Blaster Pro 2.0. Technical explanation: trixter.oldskool.org/2014/06/19/8088-domination-post-mortem-… Download the party version at scene.org/file.php?file=%2Fparties%2F2014%2Fatparty14%2Fdemo… if you'd like to run it on your own vintage hardware. Demoscene discussion on the production: pouet.net/prod.php?which=63591Why it's here
3 people recommend thisWhat people say. Highly recommended as an incredible feat of low-level optimization and retro-computing wizardry.
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u/fb39ca4in r/programming • Recommends
On “How Crash Bandicoot was fit into 2mb of RAM”
I'm especially fond of 8088 Domination, which plays it on an IBM PC.
link to this video
u/ehaliewiczin r/Compilers • Recommends
On “Compilers/Interpreters in Unexpected Places?”
I think you're talking about 8088 domination
link to this video
https://trixter.oldskool.org/2014/06/19/8088-domination-post-mortem-part-1/
> Totally, always be eliding if statements!
You can do even more than that. I've seen a few sprite compilers that use register allocation and re-organize the lines of the bitmap to minimize use of literals.
u/Myst3rious_Foxyin r/osdev • Mentions
On “Semi-Complex "Extension Master Boot Record?"”
I'm totally against this kind of reasoning. There are many reasons you should still consider developing stuff for BIOS Legacy:
* Support for motherboards that only have BIOS (it will take a really long time until most people transit to UEFI)
* Simplicity (It's way easier to assemble x86 real-mode instructions than compiling an EFI application \[requiring the understanding of a cross compiler, the EDK, memory management, paging, etc.\]) - the only true difficulty to this is the <512 bytes sector limitation and initial concepts \stack + real mode segmentation\ that can be easily solved with numerous solutions and documentation that can be found online quickly)
* Documentation (BIOS has been…