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Root42-inspired text mode plasma effect

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First post, by clb

Posted on 2024-12-13, 21:06

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Hi,

there was a recent YouTube video by root42 on programming a text mode plasma effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fSYzl5UaOY

I have been developing CRT Terminator to diagnose different SVGA text mode output from various graphics cards in a closer detail, that I was inspired to write my own version as a test case.

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Video link: https://youtu.be/ZEhANTFWbWU

It is kind of interesting how close to a real graphics mode output it is possible to get with this effect with a little bit of tweaking.

After tuning it for a while, I got curious to try to find existing old software that might have implemented a text mode plasma, but Google search fell a bit short.

Do you know of old DOS programs/demos that would have programmed this effect in text mode before?

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