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Area 5150 by CRTC & Hornet (Party Version) / IBM PC+CGA Demo, Hardware Capture

x86VileR · demo · Watch on YouTube

Demoscene & retrocomputing

What it is

Area 5150 is a demoscene production for the original 4.77MHz IBM PC with CGA graphics and PC speaker. This is the Evoke 2022 party version, captured from real hardware, and it won the Alternative Demo compo.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN treats it as a showcase of what clever tricks can squeeze out of 1981 hardware, and the sequel to 8088 MPH.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2022, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “These are also two excellent demo's on the XT”

    Excellent demo pushing the XT hardware.

    bazza97, 2024-01 · Recommendation · in “Video playback on low-end MS-DOS machines”

  2. “This comment really summarizes just how impressive the demo is”

    Impressive demo using clever tricks on old hardware.

    Akronymus, 2024-02 · Recommendation · in “How video games use lookup tables”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: ibm pc, cga, 8088, retrocomputing, evoke

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