[HN Gopher] Atari 800 Winter Solstice Celebration Demo 2022
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       Atari 800 Winter Solstice Celebration Demo 2022
        
       Author : jen_h
       Score  : 86 points
       Date   : 2022-12-25 15:42 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (8bitworkshop.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (8bitworkshop.com)
        
       | johnklos wrote:
       | There's something so heartwarming about 8 bit graphics showing a
       | winter / holiday scene on a real CRT, at least for a certain age
       | of readers. I wonder what youngsters think and feel about these.
        
       | kmoser wrote:
       | It seems every 8 bit personal computer in the 1980s had a holiday
       | demo. Here is Commodore's (which ends with a sales pitch):
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nfgdr4fOS8
        
       | ajross wrote:
       | For those who haven't played with it, 8bitworkshop is a hoot.
       | It's a real and shockingly sophisticated attempt at a modern web-
       | based IDE for ancient platforms, with sample code for each and an
       | integrated emulator.
       | 
       | It's also... I dunno, kinda cheating, it feels like. Some people
       | had to read dot matrix fanfolds of files we grabbed off of BBSes
       | or stacks of photocopied manuals from friends to learn this
       | stuff. Now they have tooling that points out that the whole
       | platforms have the complexity of... I dunno, beginner CSS
       | tutorials or whatever.
        
       | nla wrote:
       | Sorry but if you want to impress, get stable diffusion running on
       | the 800.... kidding!
        
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