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Watch an Original NES Run Netflix

Posted by samzenpus on from the watch-and-play dept.

sarahnaomi writes with this story about a NES running Netflix. I don't know how you get Netflix to play on an original Nintendo, but it's been blowing my mind for the last 18 hours or so. Netflix posted the video with painfully little explanation. I have tried in many ways to get in touch with the Netflix developers who did what you see above, but no one is getting back to me, so here are some wild speculations."

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  1. Um, get out more, seriously by 50000BTU_barbecue · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There have been so many demos on the Commodore 64 exploiting a new software video mode called NUFLI that basically tweaks the video chip on every video line with data from a big memory add-on.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    That NES stuff didn't even look good. It's easy to put 16G on an old computer and just stream a bunch of images to memory for the video chip to display.

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  2. Did everyone miss, or forget.. by ckatko · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... the real 8088 Corruption demo? (8088 @ 4.77 Mhz, CGA text-mode Soundblaster)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    And the sequel, Domination (CGA in graphics mode):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  3. Re:Hoax by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why post silly bait and hoaxes on Slashdot? The only way this would be possible would be stripped guts and a NES case.

    We're not that stupid, but clearly the editors are.

    You do not need to strip the NES. The NES uses carts which directly connect to the internal bus of the system. You can put whatever chips you want inside the cart to extend the functionality of the base system. It's actually far less impressive than it seems since they probably just stuck a wifi chipset into the cart with a SoC CPU that does the work and feeds the output to the NES video chipset.

    Or it could just be a canned smoke and mirrors demo, depends how lazy/incompetent they were.