Questions tagged [graphics]
For questions regarding graphical - as opposed to text - processing and display.
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DOS program for 3D graphics
I occasionally find myself in the situation where I need to build a simple 3D image, and this DOS program I remember would come in very handy. I just cannot find it anywhere. I am not sure if it was ...
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How did 8088/86 PCs implement flood-fill before SSE and GPUs?
Did they have to treat pixels like rocks on the beach, pick each one up, paint it, put it down, then move to the next one? I'm talking about the days before vector extensions. Honeywell mainframes had ...
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Very old graphics card [closed]
Hi we have an old machine that has a Vampower 3-07 graphics card - I believe from the early 1990s. The card has failed. Does anyone know of what the standard of that card is (i.e. what to search for ...
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Were there any games running at high refresh rates such as 90 and 120 Hz on computers and consoles of the 80s and 90s?
Games these days allow us to set the refresh rate as high as we want, the monitor's refresh rate notwithstanding. From what I understand, CRT TVs could easily clock above 60 Hz even in the 20th ...
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Have there been any parallel blitter implementations?
I read about blitters - history and technical implementation (what I could understand), for example in Amiga and Bally Astrocade. The principle is that there is a fast copying of memory from one place ...
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Advice creating and saving a logo with Apple II HGR graphics (BASIC prog)
I'm working on a small project with a local association to revive and illustrate what can be done with an Apple II. They have both a II c and e models. With the low res GR mode, I use HLIN, VLIN and ...
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Where can I find an EGA demo by IBM that created a full screen animation by redefining the EGA character glyphs?
It was an IBM demo of the EGA's ability to show arbitrary text characters, like Chinese or hieroglyphics. It was a full screen animation of a waterfall and a brook and trees with waving leaves. but it ...
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Were there 3D accelerators built on discrete logic?
I wonder if there were 3D accelerators (that is, a device that calculates rotations, scaling, texturing, etc. for 3D points) built on discrete logic (7400 series, most likely its fastest variants, ...
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