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Uploaded by on Apr 24, 2007

1985 computer animation on an Apple //e.
As described in Cinemagic Magazine #23
(visit flickr.com and go to jsl151850b photos)
and Computer Animation Primer (1984)
(Online. Go to page 129)

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  • Professor Farnsworth voice:

    Good news everyone!

    My 16mm demo reel is being professionally converted so in in a few weeks

    I'll have an EVEN BETTER version of this clip!

    Please subscribe!

  • I wonder how that computer could stay on for what I assume would be a few weeks.

  • @kargaroc386 We're talking about a 1980 era home computer.

    The operating system was less than 1/8 megabyte.

    I think my longest run was less than 100 hours.

    The Super 8 camera needed a power supply.

    Batteries might run down in a long shoot.

    Dang! So long ago!

    I merged TWO Floating Point Basics.

    One used a co-processor card to speed up math operations, and one

    was the Beagle Brothers Double Hi Res Basic.

    In retrospect, that should have been impossible!

  • haha man this reminds me of 80's sci-fi films.

  • @BigBoy62783 YES!

    My plan was to make a film loop that would play on the bridge of the starship Enterprise at one of the science stations.

    I did somewhat in the film I helped make "Asteroid!".

    Also.. is WAS the 1980s.

  • Yeah, I remember running some of those demos that would render 3d or fractal graphs. They'd take like ten minutes to complete an image.

  • @prodos8 Yeah... BYTE Magazine!

    I rewrote it from Basic (sorry... foggy on the details... nearly 30 years ago!)

    I *do* remember I couldn't caculate cosine from machine language so I used

    a 'lookup table' created by the ]['s Floating Point Basic.

    Did you read *all* the comments here?

    Be sure to look at the flickr website. Same user name. It's public.

    PS: Beagle Bros. Double High Res Basic! 384 x 512 pixels!

    PS: CCSoft co-processor Basic.

    PPS: I merged them!

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  • 1:26 As long as computers have been around, so have the need for titties.

  • delacob

    Check out my other videos.

    Use my YouTube user name to find

    the Cinemagic magazine article at flickr.

    Too bad this clip was't ready in time for 'Asteroid!'.

    There's a black and white version.

  • There's something stylistically charming about adventures in new fields like this was.

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