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Today I found the homepage of Phil Ruston, who wrote those great "Giddy" games back in the day.

He made his own computer out of a Z80 and a bunch of PIC microcontrollers:
http://www.retroleum.co.uk/electronics.html

Which is cool. He also wrote an intro for it:
http://www.retroleum.co.uk/z80-demo.html

Why am I telling you this? Because I thought it was really cool and you might, too!

LOL ITS NOT COOL SINCE ITS NOT A*M*I*G*A

HA HA HA YOU ARE REALYL FUNNY.

wow. this IS cool.

FUNNAY IS ME XERON.

Only a pope can be that fun-e

OH NO.. Its on topic!! we do not like that!

Anyways, nice.

Coolness.... Homebrewed hw kicks ass

That is very cool indeed. Some time ago a bunch of us discussed on IRC that someone should develop a spec for a sufficiently simple "demo computer" which could be built from easily accessible components.. and then arrange a demo compo for it. But this "radical" idea has probably occurred to a 1000 other sceners too. And not being a hardware/electronics expert myself, I have no idea how realistic such endeavor would be..

Wow! Thanks for the link.

Not mentioning the idea of DemoOS when Windows 95 came out.

Wah! It rules!

Hey cool... he's added hardware sprites:
http://www.retroleum.co.uk/z80-demo.html

and a better sound card:
http://www.retroleum.co.uk/z80-SX28-soundcard.html

and made a filesystem for his files:
http://www.retroleum.co.uk/z80-filesystem.html

xeron, thanks for parsing the webpage for us. none of us would have been able to extract this valuable information without your help!!

No problem. Its a service I provide at no extra cost.

I posted an update in case people were interested but hadn't looked for updates themselves yet.

Writing demos on obscure hardware is cool, and since I'm guessing that the install-base of this hardware is roughly equivavlent to 1, this is per definition pretty cool!

::funkee:: thx xeron for the link

"If you intro doesn't work on the compo machine, bring your own hw" :D

While you were at it, xeron, why couldn't you put the link in a url tag, so we could click it? I mean when you bothered to copy and paste the links for us.
The project is really cool, I wisg I could do something like that at some point (And I'm sure I'm will too)

Come on... I have to leave you guys SOMETHING to do! We don't want you getting lazy now do we? ;-)

I bet you cant do it

ask the pokemini folks

I like stuff like this...it needs the spirit a pioneer to make something like this...

What a geek :) - it's rather cool though. I guess that makes me a geek too, doesn't it.

I enjoy playing his game Giddy3 :)

so cool