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               As if a ½K Chess program wasn't hardcore enough

> These next few posts are a technical write-up of how I created 8088
> Domination [1], which is a program that displays fairly decent full-motion
> video on a 1981 IBM PC.
>

Via Hacker News [2], “8088 Domination Post-Mortem, Part 1 « Oldskooler
Ramblings [3]”

Yes, a 4.77MHz (megaHertz) 8088 based computer with an effective harddrive
transfer rate of 90KB (kilobytes)/s can do full motion video.

Okay, it's not a great video image, but still, it's an impressive display of
coding expertise and thinking outside of the box.

[1] http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=63591
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7919683
[3] http://trixter.oldskool.org/2014/06/19/8088-domination

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