Annual Thanksgiving Travel Cities Forecast 2020

Carrying on the tradition from 'The Weather Chazz', the forecast for the busy upcoming Thanksgiving Day travel.
This is a collaboration project between THEtechknight and myself, as we wanted to bring this back on the real 4000 in memory of Chazz for quite some time.
However a number technical challenges, as described by THEtechknight: The TCF Roll on the WS4000 requires an orchestration of 3 different processors. Once the vertical scroll is started, the host CPU (a Raspberry Pi on a custom data board) needs to interact with the product in order to resume the playlist after the scrolling completes. The other two CPUs are 68K (on the CPU and GPU boards, respectively) and are original to the WS4000 machine. The scroll is accomplished in hardware as it was originally all those years ago and requires handing control back and forth between the main CPU, and GPU. An Orchestra I tell you.
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Enjoy!

[@wxTVTWC]

This is amazing, and the engineering that went into it is also amazing. Perfect tribute to Chazz.

[@ross4329]

Can you do manhattan weather for Thanksgiving day parade?

[@TwcFan]

WOW! A very nice satellite version of the Travel Cities Forecast and it also ended just like the real thing too.

[@cc17926]

Because it is :-) (and thank you!)

[@TwcFan]

@@cc17926 You're welcome!

[@KyleHartley_crazybangles]

I enjoyed this video very much. Nice to see this being done on an actual system!

[@NotSomeoneM]

Nice

[@janeporter818]

Beautiful

[@deathmetalpotato]

Awesome 🙌

[@pjFrixMediaArchive]

It's been about 8 months since I've discovered this project, and to this day I am still impressed by it. Like other things before it, back then I would've probably never thought I would see something like this on physical hardware again, especially after the WS4k's final discontinuation in 2014. Now fast-forward back to this year and I've been left speechless. I haven't seen anything quite like this before (in the realms of classic TWC material) besides for the classic WeatherSTAR 4000 simulators done by taiganet and Chazz, and I'm still glad for it's existance. I appreciate all the work and engineering that went into all of this. It is just truly amazing.

[@THEtechknight]

Its been a wild ride, that's for sure. Tons and tons of man hours/labor of love invested into it. I spent my vacation weeks in 2019 focused on reverse engineering this machine, To the point where I have the schematics now.