Could have also been controlling Apple II's over serial. That's what Mouse did with the video matrix project that we brought to VCFE several years back. Nine Apple II computers, each connected to it's own monitor, controlled via serial by a central PC (some random old Pentium II) running Linux. https://i.imgur.com/CNTz5HA.jpg The advantage of the Apple II is that it's very easy to run local commands on the computer by the way the firmware can link the serial port to the console. So, you can actually have the individual II's doing whatever you want. Mouse wrote some software to do scrolling text, etc. -Ian On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 12:57 PM, Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 12:46 PM, Jeff Salzman via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
The TV show had color screens. Along with color backgrounds on the text being displayed in each screen, there was a multi-color tunnel effect used during the bonus game, and a colorful (but pixelated) dragon appeared if the player picked the wrong box during the bonus game.
The video here shows some of the action and graphics, but as a special audience participation version of the bonus round.
Is this really from the 70s edition of the show or the 90s edition I see some color animation at 2:11 This could have still been possible using the Cromemco Dazzler on the late 70s There were practically no other S-100 color video cards off-the-shelf in the late 70s Unless they designed their own video board. Dan
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