Oscilloscope demo
Like an old school graphics demo from the Amiga days, only on an oscilloscope.
( saltygoodness wasn't doing his job at, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 16:53, Reply)

Jesus Christ
That gets a click from me. I used an oscilloscope at college and i never quite 'got' how they worked, i always had to ask someone to do it for me.
(PieEater, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 17:03, Reply)

back in the day
when games developers used to get as much out of the hardware as possible, rather than just buying the latest and greatest hardware and using loads of pre-written high level code to save time.

*clicks*

I love Amigas.
( Firkinfedup was right in the middle of a fucking reptile zoo, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 17:14, Reply)

Jesus on E's FTW
this video rocks
( Dr. Strange Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers!, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 17:21, Reply)

that point of view is only really valid for the likes of id and Crytek
who get to request new hardware features from NVIDA and ATI.

What about games console programmers? The graphics cards in the XBOX 360 and PS3 are already generations behind those in top of the range PCs. On consoles, graphics programmers have to work very hard to keep their games looking better and better as the hardware they have to work with gets more and more out of date.
( saltygoodness wasn't doing his job at, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 17:32, Reply)

That gets a click

( Lanc in Bat country, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 18:01, Reply)

Amiga porn
Amiga porn 34 frames on a loop coool
(bertjamison Boards don't hit back !!!, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 18:24, Reply)

Amiga porn
Amiga porn 34 frames on a loop coool
(bertjamison Boards don't hit back !!!, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 18:26, Reply)

GC!

(thiswasmyclone, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 20:43, Reply)

Amiga porn
Amiga porn 34 frames on a loop coool
(bertjamison Boards don't hit back !!!, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 18:26, Reply)

GC x 2

(thiswasmyclone, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 20:43, Reply)

GC

( Nath, Sat 27 Oct 2007, 12:17, Reply)

[very nice...
..takes me back, etc.
Not on your stinking Amigas though.

Archimedes FTW!

What provided the input to the scope, do we know?]
(DrZaarlon The panspermia folks are having nerdgasms on, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 22:26, Reply)

it was from the soundcard on his pc
according to the the wobbly text at the bottom
( Elvis of Nazareth This isn't a sig, it's a fucking liberty., Thu 25 Oct 2007, 19:37, Reply)

That really is amazing..
Im usually really tight with my "I like this"...

>clicks for all he's worth<

Could someone enlighten me how this is done?
( Axai is happy they're bringing back blue smarties!, Wed 24 Oct 2007, 23:51, Reply)

Future Crew
on a Vectrex... Mental !
(ultramarinegoat, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 10:04, Reply)

Dude.
Fuck *me*, that is *awesome*.
(Auntie Dalek molester extraordinaire, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 17:07, Reply)

That's a whole can of awsome right there

( VampireMonkeyOnSpeed UNLIMITED RICE PUDDING!!!!!!!!!!!!11, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 19:37, Reply)

SOMEONE
make a game in this visual style!
(Executioner321123, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 23:25, Reply)

they already did
it was called elite.
i think it was for the bbc?
( KittyWaste lives at Sleepingplanet.com, Sat 27 Oct 2007, 6:59, Reply)

A spog writes:
The first every computer game was on the oscilloscope. It was called Tennis for Two, which became known as Pong.
(Mrs Liveinabin Joined the Adventure game facebook group on, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 23:44, Reply)

amazing
pretty cool.
(nyorsk, Sat 27 Oct 2007, 20:42, Reply)

I've played the biggest video game in the world
Asteroids uses a very similar technique to the oscilloscope to produce the visuals. My mate hooked up a version of Mame to his Laser once and I played Asteroids 300ft wide whilst completely off my face.
(Sonny_Jim, Sun 28 Oct 2007, 0:36, Reply)