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Fun fact - Atari threatened to sue me for my “clone” of Battlezone. https://youtu.be/bf7Ert1wkg4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(2008_video_game)
Did they eventually drop the threat or did something else happen?
I had to beg my parents for an ATI Rage LT Pro AGP 8MB card to play the sequel.
Are there any articles on how vector graphics were developed for arcade games? I vaguely remember there was also one home game console that attempted vector graphics but cannot remember the name Was fascinated with it at the time but with only access to a TRS-80 such things were impossible to learn back then
https://youtu.be/smStEPSRKBs?si=k_0u3NKCxCqZBc6w
Battlezone and later 3D games used different circuitry that generated vectors with analog circuitry and used a “math box” coprocessor based on Am2901 bit slice ALUs to help with the 3D math.
I worked in a restaurant in 81 while in HS. Next door was a convenience store that had Defender and Battlezone. I think I spent half of what I made on those two games for a few weeks. I would sneak out for a game. An addiction. I can still hear those Battlezone sounds in my head 45 years later.
Just to get your nostalgia juices flowing again, someone recreated the Defender sound engine in the browser. https://www.zapspace.net/defender_sound/
it was nice when things were made in the USA.
Edit: This is factually incorrect. Apologies.
it was nice when things were made in the USA.
It wasn’t that long ago, for reference the original Xbox was made in the USA. https://youtu.be/YeQrQYFVlXA Edit: This is factually incorrect. Apologies.
But there was still a lot of electronics manufacturing and assembly in the US during the early 2000's as well, including iPods and iMacs.
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It wasn’t that long ago, for reference the original Xbox was made in the USA. https://youtu.be/YeQrQYFVlXA Edit: This is factually incorrect. Apologies.
Actually, the description of that video says the production line was in Hungary. But there was still a lot of electronics manufacturing and assembly in the US during the early 2000's as well, including iPods and iMacs.
I worked in a restaurant in 81 while in HS. Next door was a convenience store that had Defender and Battlezone. I think I spent half of what I made on those two games for a few weeks. I would sneak out for a game. An addiction. I can still hear those Battlezone sounds in my head 45 years later.
Just to get your nostalgia juices flowing again, someone recreated the Defender sound engine in the browser. https://www.zapspace.net/defender_sound/
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, this doesn't look like AI generated. It was probably filmed on super 8 film stock. The clothing, hair cuts, manufacturing process all scream early 80s. I could see a cheap restoration introduction artifacts as a more likely reason for the look.
It looks more like video to me, honestly. It appears to be a smooth 30fps rather than the 18fps I'd expect from Super 8. There are also telltale stair-stepped sloped lines that demonstrate the effect of the deinterlacing. There did exist luggable 3/4" U-Matic recorders which I'd have to imagine CBS would have been using in 1980.