PC gaming in the 1980s #shorts

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[_IAmDiamond]

The Real $1000 Keyboard That No One Can Beat.

[the_th_sun]

If someone from 1980 was teleported forward in time and saw a modern gaming computer, their head would explode

[mr.shameless]

seeing the tv trying to work gave me nostalgic chills

[Dr.W.Krueger]

TI-99/4A...first computer I ever bought...1981 feels like it was in another life.

[Fede_uyz]

fun fact, during space invaders development, the developer loaded every invader into memory and moved them all at once, this was very heavy on the CPU and required lots of time to move every entity.

it noted that as invaders were destroyed, the moving all of them at once was done quicker due to a lower burden on the CPU and memory and therefore it would speed them up and start moving them faster.

after some testing he found out that it made the game more fun as it was harder and harder as it went on, and thus left that 'bug' in. After all: It's not a bug, it's a feature.

[jessebybee]

Fun fact: the older video games would get faster because the more enemies off the screen, the less ram used

[Bombayboginka]

“I GIVE UP, GOOD DAY”
-a man rage quitting in the 1980’s

[ghostnoise]

Correction: Cartridge software is not loaded in RAM. It runs directly from the cartridge's ROM which plugs into the data bus, so RAM is not loaded with the program's code.

[daprofessa]

I actually have one of those computers! Granted, it's a different color, but it uses the same hardware and software. Besides, it's always cool to see tech channels cover more niche retro hardware like the TI-99.

[Cxntrxl]

Fun fact: space invaders doesn’t get faster towards the end intentionally - that was because the CPU on old arcade machines and computers literally couldn’t keep up with updating so much data so quickly. It would literally speed up because you were freeing more computing power for it to move less data.

This is because the old systems used the CPU clock to operate games, rather than “delta time”, which was a measure of real life time, rather than system time. This is the reason why running the original software for street fighters on a modern computer would have the entire game running significantly faster.

[hossammoah]

Day 8 of asking mryeester to add coke to a water-cooled pc

[aSchizophrenicwithagun]

"bro hop on space invaders the new 3.1kb update dropped!"

[FearlessDonut]

Fun fact! "TI" stands for Texas Instruments. So the computer is actually called the Texas Instruments 99/4A

[bigmike]

Wow even that's before my time, I remember having to load games from multiple floppy disks.

[CrobinHoodBitGuy]

You should do one on the Commodore 64, even though it was only 8 bits, it performs better than the one in this video, sold more, and has more software. Thanks for making a video on an old computer at all though, many people don’t even know about any of them.

[NoNameTaken]

Fun Fact: The company "Ti" that made this computer is also the same company that makes your calculators for school! Also, they made the tomahawk cruise missile and the javelin missile system

[maciejd]

The funny thing about space invaders is the fact that harder gameplay at the end wasn't coded into a game. Instead the computer had less objects to render, thus making the game run faster, or should I say, at it's normal speed.

[fen]

Color monitors were pretty rare. My Apple II ran on a green monochrome monitor. First time I saw color I was amazed.

[nontendo]

16-bit operating system is crazy for 1981

[walx]

Imagine cracking 90's with that. Needs to be crazy