[Coco] CoCo Video Player Project

[Allen Huffman]

If a ZX81 can do it...

Also, a CoCo 1/2 player on vdg screen. Incredibly low rez like the  
Timex.

I'm game!

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On Apr 3, 2009, at 7:47 AM, James Dessart <skwirl42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/3/09, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
>> Promotion is all about gimmicks, and playing video on a 30 year old
>> obsolete computer sure is gimmicky. It would make a heck of a  
>> demo :-) even
>> if what is going on behind the scenes is not very complex.
>
> What would be best is if you could get all 64 colours displayed on an
> RGB monitor. The video could be compiled to machine code that's
> hardwired for each frame, and the base program just loads a frame of
> instructions off disk, which executes to fill the screen with the
> current frame. Or instead of constantly reading instructions, you have
> one set of instructions, and you just update the immediate part of the
> opcode with the values from disk. Self-modifying code isn't very
> elegant, but it's fast.
>
> If one were feeling motivated enough to do such a thing. Personally,
> I'm not all that interested in actually trying this out, since my CoCo
> is much too far away. :(
>
> It'd be an interesting possibility, and a challenge to get it looking
> good. I don't know what kind of frame rate you'd be able to get, but I
> think a CoCo 3 would be the minimum to do it fast enough to be
> impressive.
>
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