8088 Domination Running on a Toshiba T3200 286 Portable

[@mikumiku4u942]

This computer is soo cool becuase it has a gas plasma screen.

[@kimgkomg]

I don't even know what that means but I agree

[@xirfall]

Yes

[@TheRealNeoFrancois]

@@kimgkomg A type of thin display screen, called a flat-panel display, used in some older portable computers. A gas-plasma display works by sandwiching neon gas between two plates. Each plate is coated with a conductive print. The print on one plate contains vertical conductive lines and the other plate has horizontal lines. Together, the two plates form a grid. When electric current is passed through a horizontal and vertical line, the gas at the intersection glows, creating a point of light, or pixel. You can think of a gas-plasma display as a collection of very small neon bulbs. Images on gas-plasma displays generally appear as orange objects on top of a black background. Although gas-plasma displays produce very sharp monochrome images, they require much more power than the more common LCD displays.

[@kimgkomg]

@@TheRealNeoFrancois correct me if I'm wrong, but is that not similar to the way E-ink displays work? The wire grid in particular reminds me of E-ink.

[@TheRealNeoFrancois]

@@kimgkomg it's similar but not the sameEach electronic paper display is made up of millions of such capsules in a thin film, with the particles inside the capsules of different colors and different electric charges. Electrodes are placed above and below the capsule film. When a positive or negative electric field is applied to an individual electrode, the color particles with the corresponding charge will move either to the top or bottom of a capsule, making the surface of the e-paper display appear a certain color. Capsules filled with negatively and positively charged particles color the surface of an EPD when an electric charge is applied In the most basic incarnation of an e-paper screen, the particles inside an e ink capsule will be either black or white. The white particles carry a positive charge and the black particles a negative one. If the electric charge applied is negative, then the negative black ink particles will be repelled to the top of the capsule and color the surface of the display black in that spot.

[@kingcrimson234]

What's amazing about the 8088 domination encoder is that it essentially converts video to x86 assembly. Think about that for a minute.

[@znefas]

that is really, really cool. would the videos be encoded in any modern file format like mp4 or would it simply be some old deprecated binary format?

[@znefas]

@@klhjglkjhlkjhlkjhlkjh that's actually really cool, especially when you have to keep efficiency in mind; i couldn't imagine writing a program in a low-level language that converts data into CPU instructions

[@abyssalboy8811]

@@klhjglkjhlkjhlkjhlkjh so I can play Avanger_Infinity_War_Free_Hindi_Sub_2021_1080p_mp4.exe and it will run?

[@BlackEpyon]

This entire presentation is about 31MB. For 1981, that was 3 times larger than your entire hard drive, IF you had one installed (a 30MB hard drive would have been probably around '85 or so, I think). You're limited to 640x400 resolution, and a maximum of 16 colours over composite video (b/w over CGA/EVA/VGA), but you could still play Avengers Infinity War if you can convert it, and have a large enough hard drive (an XT-CF or XT-IDE helps). If you want more details, look up "Jim Leonard" on KZbin, or "Trixter" on the Vintage Computer forums. He's the guy who worked on it.

[@Kalvinjj]

@@BlackEpyon I can only imagine someone making this demo back in the 80s running it all straight from a backup tape drive to keep up the data usage

[@acus69]

For anyone wondering it starts at 4:00

[@MrAwesomedude808]

Thanks for the direct link to the Rick roll lol

[@mez472]

I love noisy hdd's. They make you feel like in early 80's. Shame I was born too late and I missed almost everything good at that times

[@meemee1357]

Too bad that loud hdds generally mean they will fail soon...

[@kimgkomg]

Like cross continental nuclear missiles

[@enderlytra_3709]

Yep but looking back is what's so good about Gen Z.

[@crazy_wwww]

same, i use fans with high rpm in computer

[@BlackEpyon]

@@meemee1357 These days? Yes. Back then, they all sounded like that.

[@Fastolph-]

Bad Apple looks RIGHT and RAD on that amber display!

[@ShnizelInBag]

Science moves forward thanks to weebs trying to play bad apple on everything

[@sluxi]

It's just for the memes. The demoscene has been pushing old hardware to new records for many decades.

[@untrust2033]

I love this demo. Wish I could find the music that plays before bad apple

[@mattcrowley8993]

4:00 Suddenly, old tech Rickrolls you!

[@shawnerz98]

That's amazing. I recently got a T-3200 with a 40 MB HD and 1 MB of RAM. After replacing a few caps in the power supply, it is running amazingly well. This looks like a goal to run on my T-3200. Thanks for posting!

[@Baer9471]

I like that orange plasma screen

[@AgentKilo]

I'm a simple man, I see neat monochrome lcds, I see bad apple, I click

[@flaksoft8003]

great but the advantage of text mode is that you can stream movies (silent ones) via telnet and SSH that is the future i tell you

[@A.m.a.r.u]

_BAD APPLE!_

Great work

[@retropcs88]

How did you transfer the 20 megabyte file to the computer?

[@bigloudnoise]

By using an external Zip drive that connects via the parallel port. Very handy for transferring large amounts of data between old computers like this, and newer ones as well if you also happen to have a USB Zip drive on hand.

[@retropcs88]

@@bigloudnoise I do not have any of those, i do have a internal zip drive but no parallel port one. I use ethernet to transfer large files and it is very slow on my 286. It takes 13 minutest to transfer the bad apple file.

[@BlackEpyon]

@@retropcs88 If you happen to be using an XT-CF or XT-IDE, it's sometimes quicker to copy it directly to a CF card from a card reader. Although, I happen to have a few Zip drives myself for just this purpose.

[@retropcs88]

@@BlackEpyon I am using a normal hard drive but I put a CD-ROM in there so I can transfer files very quickly

[@shawnerz98]

@@BlackEpyon You are correct. However, on the T-3200, the drive interfaces are MFM.

[@NexXxus86]

how did you get a soundcard in this thing?

[@bigloudnoise]

Thomas Kings it has two ISA slots in it.

[@NexXxus86]

bigloudnoise oh neat. I can't remember if my 5100 had one

[@bigloudnoise]

I don't believe the T5100 has any ISA slots, just a proprietary Toshiba expansion slot for modems. AFAIK the only way you could add sound to a T5100 is with a Covox or similar device that plugs into the parallel port.

[@BlackEpyon]

It will be dependant on make and model, but a lot of these old laptops could support a docking station that had one or two ISA slots in it.

[@MartynaLostMedia]

4:47 bad apple

[@ferando]

fuck i got rickrolled again

[@reofardian1429]

you got rickroled

[@strikdevroblox9079]

Bro rickrolled me again

[@thedopplereffect00]

I bet you wish you had a tripod, your arms must have been tired after that

[@lavenderfox2430]

How much memory does this machine have? I've thought about trying it on my Tandy 1000SX but that only has 384k. I've been looking to upgrade but it takes a huge chunk of cash to do something like that.

[@bigloudnoise]

1MB or 1024KB. I don't know off-hand what the minimum requirements for this particular demo are, but I'd guess 640K and a 40MB hard drive. The hard drive requirements was actually the biggest limiting factor for me finding the oldest computer in my collection that would play this, since every computer I have older than this only had 20MB or smaller drives.

[@МемныйПрокурор]

Rickroll

[@somegreenguy]

hell yeah bad apple

[@alexfox1675]

I own one. Cool computer not much to say.

[@crazychicken2005]

I personally have a T3100SX, but sadly it does not work, the internal power supply is dead and I don’t trust myself to fix it

[@30plusweebdegenerate]

Rick Astley was the best

[@RWL2012]

Сергей Поздняков is he not anymore...?

[@binarypench]

Wow.

[@lakittor]

Why do i keep finding you everytime? Homestar runner,and etc?

[@theprodiamondboy4039]

So thats how laptops looked like in the 80s 😃😃😃 Its suitcase... 🤣🤣🤣

[@xxsubexx2897]

What Cards are u Useing i want to upgrade my T 3200 too!

[@nonogamer9117]

2:09

[@AmstradExin]

ooooh i have a 3100

[@AmstradExin]

also, where is the sound coming from?

[@Toasty_Gaming]

come Saturday ill also be the proud owner of a t3100/20! I assuming hes using some sort of sound blaster card as the machine can use pc cards (amazing right) the one im about to get has a vertical line right down the middle is there anyway I can fix it?

[@AmstradExin]

my guess is that you let it run for a while, get the display out, firmly press the rim together on all spots and assemble again. I had multiple lines and they are all gone.

[@AmstradExin]

Bigger problem is the psu. it tends to overheat.

[@RWL2012]

There's a Sound Blaster in one of the built in ISA slots!