Re: Duet in Lores

[heuser.marcus@freenet.de]

On Sep 7, 7:42 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> It is much too sleek...I suspect it was a prop designed for
> the movie, with graphics generated by several different means.
> There were quite capable professional color graphics
> workstations available in that timeframe (for $25000 and up!).

I know that an Apple II wasn't used for the graphics. There
are way too many colors & shades on Edgar's screen and it
was very likely only an animation and not operating in real-time.

Maybe a simpler version could be made with lo-res, using the
cassette port for input and assembler for speed.
Using tables with fixed locations and sizes for the rectangles
to the 8 bit input "spectrum" could create something similar.
The biggest rectangles would be perhaps 100-150 bytes large.
Two shades per color aren't the world but better than nothing.
The raster background would've to be dropped, naturally, but
the lower four text lines could display some important looking
numbers.

It was actually just an excuse to post that video, which I had
seen about two weeks ago after reading an article about evil
computers in movies.
Virginia Madsen wrinkling her nose stuck with me, apparently ;-)

bye
Marcus