Notices by MudMan (mudman@mas.to)

@dosnostalgic I don't mind the portable form factor, but if that does work as advertised and compatibility doesn't suck I would LOVE to repurpose one of those boards for a tiny form factor retro PC. It looks like it needs some adaptor to actually output to VGA, though.

@dosnostalgic I mean, point taken, but if we're talking DOS even real hardware is not "accurate". Depending on the specific combo of hardware and software you can get speeds going all over the place or a bunch of hardware incompatibilities.

That's why I was highlighting it being weird for PCs specifically. On closed platforms I totally get the appeal of original hardware on modern displays (even if I strongly prefer original displays), but PC seems like a worse fit for that.

@dosnostalgic Yeah, but PC original hardware is... you know, PC hardware.

I don't just mean that you can get the software to run, although there is that, but old PC hardware is a mess of standards, generations and competing technologies. And a bunch of "retro" old PCs, like the one in that picture are not really era-authentic because hard drives suck and it's not practical to cover just one gen of PC tech at a time, so why not just use a modern PC to run old software?

@dosnostalgic I'm not sure how much I get the point. I guess there are some specific eras where software is hard to run under emulation or backwards compatibility, but in general there are many ways to run old PC software cleanly on a modern display without taking original VGA hardware output and converting it.

@Gamrok Wait, I need some context. What am I looking at? Is this a recreation of the screen? Is it a step-by-step of how the engine draws the image? Is it a recording of the original drawing?

If so... how? I can't imagine they were doing digital screen recordings of their art process in 1989.

I mean, it looks cool, but I'd like to understand how this was made.