Tag Archives: IBM PC/XT

That’s not Possible on this Platform!

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Scali

The past year-and-a-half have been quite interesting. First there was the plan to form a team and build a demo for the original IBM PC with CGA. We weren’t quite sure where it would lead at first, but as the … Continue reading →

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8088 MPH: The polygons

Posted on April 23, 2015 by Scali

The last effect in 8088 MPH to be discussed is the polygon renderer. As already mentioned earlier, it is not a regular polygon renderer, but actually a ‘delta-renderer’: it does not rasterize pixels directly, but for each scanline, it uses … Continue reading →

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8088 MPH: How it came about

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Scali

Well, you’ve already seen the demo in my previous post. And Trixter, reenigne and VileR have already covered most of the technical details in these articles: 8088 MPH: We Break All Your Emulators 1K colours on CGA: How it’s done … Continue reading →

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CGADEMO by Codeblasters

Posted on November 22, 2014 by Scali

Today I want to talk about a rather obscure, yet interesting demo, namely CGADEMO by Codeblasters, from 1992: As you can read from the scroller, what’s interesting about this demo is that it runs at full framerate (60 Hz) even … Continue reading →

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