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We ran Doom on a 40 year old printer controller (Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS) [video] (youtube.com)
EvanAnderson 2 hours ago [-]
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.
vardump 24 minutes ago [-]
The pregnancy test had altered innards. So it was fake.
EvanAnderson 2 minutes ago [-]
Sadness for that, and for my inability to read in-depth.
Something1234 46 minutes ago [-]
What’s the graphic novel?
EvanAnderson 34 minutes ago [-]
I don't know. I'll ask her. She burns thru them and it may have already been returned to the library.
mkovach 1 hours ago [-]
’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.

tonyedgecombe 17 minutes ago [-]
Writing a Forth for hardware that originally ran PostScript would have been an interesting decision.
lizardking 35 minutes ago [-]
Looks roughly as smooth as it looked on my 25mhz 386
peteforde 2 hours ago [-]
This is freaking awesome.
esafak 1 hours ago [-]
Agfa: now there's a name you don't see any more.
tonyedgecombe 15 minutes ago [-]
There were so many companies in that sector back in the eighties and nineties. It seemed like every conglomerate had a division making printers.
estomagordo 2 hours ago [-]
Now do Crysis
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