This is amazing. I've found a good overview but almost nothing about the hardware it was done on. Is a description of the CPU and video generation available anywhere? I'm blown away this was done in 1985.
These are both cool links. I wonder if the device is based on the Quantel paintbox. I had no idea this existed in 1985. I was a very lucky boy then, I had a BBC Model B, which had 16 colours (well 8 colours and 8 that flashed). I'm blown away by what seems to be a 24bit YUV framestore on ROM.
Whoa, so it was rendered realtime!? I thought it was just a tape, but I guess that would noticeably degrade fairly quickly unless it was an early digital recording of some kind.
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