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someone made a demo for the Commodore PET of all things (youtu.be)
submitted 1 year ago by self@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems
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this is a computer that’s almost entirely without graphical capabilities, so here’s a demo featuring animations and sound someone did last year

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[–] self@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

let me know if a big NotAwfulTech thread for demos would be fun and I’ll start one, since the demoscene is almost always not awful by definition

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does Lemmy bump threads regardless of age? If yes, +1 to a Demoscene megathread.

[–] self@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

huh, that’s a good question. from https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html it looks like it should bump it, but I haven’t been seeing that behavior in my UI (which I usually just perch on the default front page)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago

I'm +1 for this too

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Neat! It looks incredible and better on the actual hardware than on the emulator! (there's a link in the video description to it running on emulator)

[–] self@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago

the way they use the real hardware’s cathode fade in the animations is awesome!