Uzebox community member James Howard, he of Joyrider mega stardom, may have just pulled the greatest "it runs Doom" related move yet by getting Wolfenstein running perfectly on 8088 PC's from 1979 with CGA graphics!
https://www.techspot.com/news/97353-wol ... -chip.html
Uzeboxer gets Wolfenstein running on the 8088
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Wow very cool, nice find. Runs very smoothly for a 8088. Very happy to see James still at it doing amazing stuff!
Re: Uzeboxer gets Wolfenstein running on the 8088
Wow, very awesome!
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The video on the tweet isn't running on a 1979 PC
This is on a 8088:
https://twitter.com/RetroTechChris/stat ... 5314170882
Edit: actually a NEC V20 which is faster than an 8088.
Last edited by rv6502 on Thu Feb 23, 2023 6:39 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Uzeboxer gets Wolfenstein running on the 8088
Brilliant!
Thanks rv6502. James deserves some super hacker award for this.
Thanks rv6502. James deserves some super hacker award for this.
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The dithering works so well there. Even the monochrome version looks good. Minimum specs for the original version say 528K RAM, but if the graphics were lower bit depth from the start, and perhaps PC speaker only, maybe <= 256K RAM?
Then I see the IBM PC 5150 from 1981 with 8080 and up to 256K RAM. If someone had achieved this back then, we would be on an alternate timeline of computing by now.
Then I see the IBM PC 5150 from 1981 with 8080 and up to 256K RAM. If someone had achieved this back then, we would be on an alternate timeline of computing by now.