video/audio on an 8088

[skold]

i havent been able to watch this yet because of my @$^%$ing cable, or should i say dialup, but the pics and description sound really interesting.. supposedly its some video and audio running on an original ibm pc, 4.77mhz, 8088..

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5885351342753379583&q=8088

[CPUShack]

yup, tis a great video (the wonders of txt graphics, its fast, and its cool
Behold the 5150

[skold]

i got about half of it to load, looks cool

by text graphics you mean ascii chars?

still, 30fps.. i dont remember a directory listing going that fast

[debs3759]

Nice! That's why most of my programming (what little I do...) is in assembler, I like speed

[sammyc]

THAT IS INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


That is really the worlds first PC?


If you can do that with one of them, imagine the possabilities on a 3.8GHz LOL

Someone please tell me that's not for real?

[bacterio]

MY GOD, i don't know that a old ibm 5150 could do this.
I've got one of those computers, and they were so slows (games like arkanoid aren't played at full speed with a Hercules video card). REALLY INCREDIBLE!!!

[Borris70]

is not allowed to see in germany?

<snip>
Thanks for your interest in Google Video.

Currently, the playback feature of Google Video isn't available in your country.

We hope to make this feature available more widely in the future, and we really appreciate your patience.
</snip>

[skold]

google video isnt available in some countries unfortunately ;/ germany isn't alone.

sammy, as far as i know its for real

bacterio, i had one of those too, and it was slowwww. i remember playing this old text based star trek sim, and with about 10 ships in the game, one turn would take fully 5 minutes to calculate!

[morkork]

[slava]

I can only hear sounds on that website...
Never mind, It's quite costly for my ADSL to watch it anyway