[Coco] CoCo Video Player Project

[Sean]

Here's the links to the 'video' playing.  Technically it was just a
pure ML program:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/91071283@N00/3381641924/in/set-72157615746538685/

And this one is just a still of the setup.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/91071283@N00/3380799975/in/set-72157615746538685/



On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Allen Huffman <ALSPLACE at pobox.com> wrote:
> Here's an idea I'd like to bounce off of everyone.
>
> A few years ago, right when the Glenside IDE interface came out, there was a
> guy who was using it to write a video player -- I cannot remember who it
> was, for the life of me! Does anyone know what I am talking about? I think
> he had made something that just blasted sectors from the hard drive and spit
> them out to the screen, and had digitized some stuff as a demo.
>
> How much work would it be to do something like that, perhaps playing video
> off of the SuperIDE Compact Flash card? It could be bare-metal assembly code
> -- but would need to be able to play files of whatever kind we convert to (a
> series of uncompressed frames, since storage space on the card is not really
> an issue).  A bonus for doing sound.
>
> Something like this would be a heck of a demo (if somewhat unpractical).
>
> After seeing the link to the Timex Sinclair 1000 (that Sean sent from the
> Midwest Gaming Expo), I figure if that machine can do "video", we can do
> much more on the CoCo!
>
>                -- Allen
>
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