Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by 0x0 4861 days ago
I must have missed the limited ram access when I browsed the slides the first time, I just assumed the youtube Game of Life proved they were poking ascii 'X' chars into video ram at 0xb8000 or whatever. Is there a trick/cheat to how that visualization was done?

Edit: browsed around the code some more and it seems the ascii visualization stuff is done in regular c/asm polling the "virtual game of life" mem(?)

1 comments

Yes, there is a cheat, it moves values from RAM to VGA ...
Thanks for clarifying, still extremely impressive!

I wonder if you'll receive any fun comments from Intel/AMD/etc. :)