Yeah, I missed the other post on the FM Towns emulator or I would have commented. One of the coolest parts of Demosplash is the live old PCs and consoles you can play around on. Partly I think this is because Demosplash is hosted by the vintage computer club.
One of the professors at CMU (who coincidentally also is writing the FM Towns emulator and has written a number of demos for Demosplash, of the first ever for those platforms), is a really cool guy who brings a library of almost impossible to play Japanese only PCs to the event. He's done some truly amazing stuff with some of them and they're a blast to play games on.
The folks that run it are great, including having a mainframe emulator running on a rPi as the sign-in system, and it should easily have 4-10 times the attendance. I really recommend it if you're just a few hours from CMU and can take the weekend. Even better, enter a competition!
IIR, the competitor who brought the Looking Glass display was a VR developer for Facebook, so there's some serious muscle that shows up.
>One of the coolest parts of Demosplash is the live old PCs and consoles you can play around on. Partly I think this is because Demosplash is hosted by the vintage computer club.
Yea it was a lot of fun playing with the old machines at last year's Demosplash.
>One of the professors at CMU (who coincidentally also is writing the FM Towns emulator and has written a number of demos for Demosplash, of the first ever for those platforms), is a really cool guy who brings a library of almost impossible to play Japanese only PCs to the event. He's done some truly amazing stuff with some of them and they're a blast to play games on.
Soji Yamaka is a wizard at reverse-engineering these old systems. I am in awe at his drive and ambition in figuring out solutions to preserving these old systems. His submission for the 2019 Demosplash was one of my favorites. We had some great late night chats.
>The folks that run it are great, including having a mainframe emulator running on a rPi as the sign-in system
HA! I remember that. Geeked out with the founders for like an hour just talking about how they did it. Seeing that at the check in desk was my first introduction to how CMU students leave no stone unturned in nerdy awesomeness.
When I was in school, me and my fellow retro geeks would talk about writing stuff like this but we never actually spent the time to learn how to write software for old machines. We would just be trying to survive our own classes and then waste time on other things.
The CMU computer club takes the craft to a whole new level. I guess it is to be expected given that they are a top tier school. While the mainframe system they emulated was before my time, I loved the glow of the DEC monitor they used. Took me back to when I first saw one as a child.
>IIR, the competitor who brought the Looking Glass display was a VR developer for Facebook, so there's some serious muscle that shows up.
Ah man missed it! I don't recall any outside companies attending in 2019.
Do you attend every year or was it just a one off thing?
One of the professors at CMU (who coincidentally also is writing the FM Towns emulator and has written a number of demos for Demosplash, of the first ever for those platforms), is a really cool guy who brings a library of almost impossible to play Japanese only PCs to the event. He's done some truly amazing stuff with some of them and they're a blast to play games on.
The folks that run it are great, including having a mainframe emulator running on a rPi as the sign-in system, and it should easily have 4-10 times the attendance. I really recommend it if you're just a few hours from CMU and can take the weekend. Even better, enter a competition!
IIR, the competitor who brought the Looking Glass display was a VR developer for Facebook, so there's some serious muscle that shows up.