Monday, 14 July 2008

You can teach an old computer new tricks

There are lots of novel uses for old computers; this radiohead mashup done with a ZX spectrum (My first computer) is super-dope:


Big Ideas (don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.

As is this rendition of Funky Town, running on a C64 and dot matrix printer:




And for all those who thought that the ZX spectrum had crap graphics and sound... you are right. But look at what some leet Russian demoscene hackers have coded up - very nice, especially when you know how limited that old hardware was/is:

No comments: