We ran Doom on a 40 year old printer controller (Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS) [video]

EvanAnderson 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

My 12 y/o daughter recently ran into a "does it run DOOM" reference in media (I think a graphic novel-- not sure) and asked me about it. I got to explain the phenomenon and show her some examples (she found the pregnancy test to be particularly amusing). I'll have to show her this one.

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vardump 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The pregnancy test had altered innards. So it was fake.

	▲	EvanAnderson 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Sadness for that, and for my inability to read in-depth.
	▲	anthk 22 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		But you can play Zachine v3 games in a pencil, such as Zork I-III, Tristam Island, Calypso... with builtin writting recognition under some special printed sheets (where you can print and then xerox them for the cheap).

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Something1234 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What’s the graphic novel?

	▲	EvanAnderson 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't know. I'll ask her. She burns thru them and it may have already been returned to the library.

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mkovach 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

’ve been following Adrian's Afga system series, great dive into the unknown.

Realistically, I would've stopped the moment BASIC worked, called it "good enough," and then gotten distracted attempting to write a Forth for it.

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tonyedgecombe 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Writing a Forth for hardware that originally ran PostScript would have been an interesting decision.

	▲	anthk 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I'm running EForth under subleq right now (https://github.com/howerj/subleq)

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Aardwolf 14 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Now please do it on a Cray-1 from 1976!

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lizardking 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Looks roughly as smooth as it looked on my 25mhz 386

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egypturnash an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I am faintly disappointed that "running Doom" did not involve printing out a series of frames at a hilariously low effective framerate, then taking the pile and using it as a flipbook.

I mean, sure, major props for kludging your own video generator in there, but...

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peteforde 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is freaking awesome.

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esafak 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Agfa: now there's a name you don't see any more.

	▲	tonyedgecombe 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There were so many companies in that sector back in the eighties and nineties. It seemed like every conglomerate had a division making printers.

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estomagordo 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Now do Crysis