dr.zeissler wrote on 2022-12-05, 12:32:
Could not get the suitable required hardware for an acceptable price.
..so still watching 5150 via video/yt on the real machine.
Ironic isn't it? And highly unfortunate. We have a "modern" program, where experts have stunned the world by maximizing the potential, the tweaks, and the performance of 40-year-old hardware. By and by, that 4o-year-old hardware is as obsolete laughably slow and inefficient compared to any other PC released in the last 20 years.
Yet, to even have hope of of running this outstanding, stunning demo, one has to acquire 40-year-old hardware for thousands of dollars. Modern hardware simply won't run this 40-year-old code. Even though, by rights, modern systems *should* be 100% compatible with the tweaks and the hacks of the old 40-year-old composite CGA cards. Instead modern systems are so castrated, so far-removed from the compatibility standpoint, that this wonderful demo can't even be run properly in emulation.
So, the only way to experience it, really, is to spend thousands on scalperesque, greedy Ebay prices or get lucky and magically unwrap one of these 42-year-old "Original IBM 5150 PCs with composite CGA" which has been lurking in Grandpa's attic for 35 years, or rotting in his workshop, exposed and totally forgotten for many decades.
Probably, only a handful of true diehards in the entire world is willing to do this, but the expertese and the truly STUNNING work of the people who wrote this code, needs to get more exposure, and more cheaply possible to do, with 100% accuracy for the 'authentic' experience.
Sad, isn't it? And very, very ironic.