I've just watched the #Amiga demo HAMazing by Desire and I want to say a few words about it. The first ones are: it's insane what hardware that's almost 40 years old could do. It blew my mind as a kid and rightly so.
The demo is all about leveraging HAM mode, which allowed you to display up to 4K colors simultaneously. Let me explain how that worked and how remarkable this demo is. 🧵 1/6
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=i0gilhsxaEA
#DemoScene
Gabriele Svelto /
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2024-05-20 23:25:55
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