First IBM PC Plays Full Motion Sound and Video

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday January 25, 2006 @05:11AM from the idle-distractions-and-other-amusements dept.

wally writes "Something for the older geeks; it 'started as a bit of a joke around the office, about doing stupid things with old technology' he said. 'Stupid things like, "Well, I can calculate fractals on an abacus!" or "Well, I can surf the web on my Game Boy!". Then one person said, "Oh yeah? Well, I can display video on my XT!". And later that day I kept thinking about it and came up with a way to do it.' And he really did. With video proof and a full explanation with all the needed code, full motion video on an original 8088 IBM."

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Amigas did this at the same time and better :) by Amiga+Lover · 2006-01-25 05:17 · Score: 4, Informative

The Amiga did this at the same time and better :). Amiga 500, 68000 at 8MHz could do smooth fullscreen full colour video with stereo 4 channel sound booted from floppy with 1MB RAM AND multitask like Windows and MacOS didn't know how to do until 1999 or later.

Sometimes the world forgets the technology we had yesteryear.