[Coco] CoCo Video Player

[John W. Linville]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:13:15AM +1100, John Kent wrote:
> What is quite amazing is that the CPU is running at less than 1MHz,
> so to update the graphics at even 15 frames per second is pretty
> amazing. There must be some pretty tightly coded assembly code in
> there.

Well, I do use the double-speed poke. :-)  The code probably isn't
all that impressive either -- I mostly crafted the data format to be
easily processed.

I intended to open source the code, but honestly this is the most
interest that anyone really seemed to show in the player in the
last year!  Before that, I was kinda burnt-out on the project and
never got around to releasing a git tree for the code.

Anyway, I guess it comes down to expectations.  For me, I was
tickled to get recognizable images on the screen synchronized with
the corresponding audio.  Steve and Nick want more, and that's fine.
CoCo will never make a very good TiVo... :-)

John
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