8088 Corruption@fullscreen

[ImoenOfTelengard]

A very odd usage of low resolution ANSI. No wonder it is so fast. Were the ANSI graphics per-rendered? If not, then this is beyond belief.

[vapourmile]

Same question as I've asked before: It's awesome to think this is running on hardware from 1981... but what about the sound? Can you tell me what device it's running on plz?

[alt3g]

radical video!

[MattTheSpratt]

Source on the black and white animated part?

[wandov8]

Congratulations, nice video. I have a pc xt clone, but without soundblaster card. :(

[DoReMiForever]

I have a Olivetti M240 with a 8088 CPU but it don't have soundcard

[dudejo]

imagine if this program existed back in the 80's.

most epic tech demo ever.

[rebelanarch]

@dudejo

yeah, but i doubt 80s people would have had the development kits and software knowledge to make this. by the time they did,in the early 90s, VGA hardware should already be quite mainstream in 1st world countries.

[produKtNZ]

Can i just clarify something?

What we are seeing isn't rendered, made or is being played on an actual 8088 is it?

[jojoreloaded]

Yup, that's a real 4,77mhz 8088 :)

[produKtNZ]

Oh!

Well when you said "recorded@fullscreen with Dosbox 0.65" Dosbox is a windows application to emulate a true DOS environment?

Meaning that just because we can see the video, doesn't mean it's not actually being done on a hyperthreaded-mega-6gb-ram-dua­lhypercore-awesome pc :P

[jojoreloaded]

Search 8088_Corruption on google. First hit. See the video.

You're welcome ;)

[stonerj0e]

looks like many different ascii characters were being used .

[RABBIDGamfan]

How fast would the PC speaker version run on a 7-8 Mhz 8086?

[poopskinTheLiar]

wait wait wait...The audio couldn't have been made by the PC-Beeper! i thought the beeper was the only audio the 5150 had?

[wintilek]

The 5150 had ISA slots, hence you could easily add expansion cards such as the Creative Sound Blaster (the original one, I imagine) which is required/emulated here.

[linuxlove4004]

i beleve that Trixster said that you needed a soundblaster 16 or something for 8088 corruption to work with sound

[hamhelper]

it's not from the PC speaker. Trixster used a sound blaster pro 2.0, it's an 8 bit ISA card, the whole program is synchronized using the sound card timer. And although he doesn't mention it, I'm quite sure the music is midi generated, considerably cutting down on the overhead. BTW That computer is from 1983.

[linuxlove4004]

Yes, i know. I forgot he used a sound blaster PRO 2.0. If you look around, there is a video where he explains how he created 8088 Corruption (now called 8088flex). And I know that the computer is from 193. Well, it was recorded in DOSbox, but the XT he ran it on is from '83.

[produKtNZ]

oh god that looks awesome ! :D!

It's almost as if the 32x32(?) gfx are part of the overall idea and soul of the project, eg post processing filter or something :)

[techforumz]

looks about 32x32. But still, how did you get ANY video to fill at that speed! Granted an NES has better graphics, how did you do it?

[kingcrimson234]

i've run this on my XT clone before with a VGA card and an old sound blaster pro ver. 2.

well i guess we can throw out the hi-def now. i'll just put a 5150 in it's place with a 500 MB hard drive! this A/V format trixter came up with is just about 5 MB per minute, so you can put a full 90+ minute movie on that beast!

hahaha... i'm totally gonna do that. invite a friend over to watch a movie and show it on the XT.

[poopskinTheLiar]

sweet mercy, that's on the 5150? and with CGA?! I've seriously underestimated early 80's technology! i mean, i've emulated it, but i had no idea what it was capable of!

[Petronilus]

Impressive :-)

I had a PC like that myself.

My 8088 4.77MHz wasn't even able to execute 1 MIPS.

My Q6600 3.6GHz measures about 65K MIPS using Sandra SiSoft.

So my new PC should be > 65,000 times faster.

I realize what I have now is what would have been called a super computer at the time the PC was born

But...interestingly my OS (Vista) takes longer time to boot than my OS (DOS) did on my first PC.

[nandovelasquez]

Well, my athlon 64 3200+ booting windows XP SP2 is WAY faster than my core 2 E6600 booting on Vista...

And i also had an epson APEX 110, running an intel 8088 and 640k of RAM, lol...i wish i had it to see the 8088 CORR live on my desktop

[sparky4444444444444]

all me have to say about 8088 corr LIVE on desktop is

Windows Me 4.90.3000

[Asterra2]

So I've always wanted to know.. what's the name of the music used? And is it floating around out there as a proper stereo track?

[inclusivedisjunction]

Title: "Power Up"

Artist: Space Cat

Album: "Power Up"

[sonick808]

wow!

[sjokoland1]

awesome

[RABBIDGamfan]

This PC speaker or Sound Blaster?

[jojoreloaded]

The original 8088 Corruption uses soundblaster, but i've sucesfully ported it to work on pc speaker & covox :)

[RABBIDGamfan]

Cool! Can I get it? If so, where?

[MrCauldron]

@jojoreloaded How did you do it with pc speaker???? 

[sjokoland1]

this is a soundblaster pro in 8 bit

[SamuraiClinton]

I'm surprised the sound didn't stutter on DOSBox when you filmed this. Because the sound stutters whenever I use DOSBox.

[edison400]

How did you get DOSBox to do this full screen? every time I hit alt+enter it goes only half screen, and the rest is just black.

[TheReelTodd]

Very nice work! Excellent use of older technology. :-D

[necromncr]

8088 rulz..