That screenshot is specifically from the Atari 2600. You can tell because sprites that are next to each other are offset by one vertical pixel, which was a common effect used to help with hardware limitations.
It has the TIA, which is as close to a picture processor (and also audio synthesizer) as you can get, but due to the 128 bytes of RAM, there was not enough RAM to form a framebuffer, hence the need to race the beam.
Jokes aside, I don't get the "furby = evil" things. Much like clowns, or Taco Bell giving people diarrhea (present bullshit excluded). Memes gonna meme I guess.
ENIAC was designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory (which later became a part of the Army Research Laboratory).[7][8] However, its first program was a study of the feasibility of the thermonuclear weapon.[9][10]
While I'm back there, I'll kill Hitler's abusive step-father so he grows up without trauma. Er... Aside from seeing his father killed by a time traveler.
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CyberTaco@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 2d
Not the Speak & Spell. You leave that one alone.
perishthethought@piefed.social · 23 pts · 2d
They can take my Speak and Spell when they pry it from my cold, dead h. a. n. d.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d
Read the letters in that voice. I should look for one of those chips again to play with.
Codpiece@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 2d
Exactly. ET wouldn’t have got home without one.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Yeah I also would've noped the fuck out of here as fast as possible, and however possible if I could.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 2d
My first encounter with AI.
The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world · 14 pts · 2d
What did you play this on? It looks like Atari.
prettybunnys@piefed.social · 12 pts · 2d
Looks like the chess game we had on our old “ibm compatible”
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 2d
That screenshot is specifically from the Atari 2600. You can tell because sprites that are next to each other are offset by one vertical pixel, which was a common effect used to help with hardware limitations.
bss03@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 1d
IIRC, the 2600 didn't have a graphics processor. So, you had to "chase the ray" with CPU instructions, which made for some interesting limitations.
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1d
It has the TIA, which is as close to a picture processor (and also audio synthesizer) as you can get, but due to the 128 bytes of RAM, there was not enough RAM to form a framebuffer, hence the need to race the beam.
bss03@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 1d
Thanks for the clarification. I was too young to program the 2600. I started programming on PC-compatible.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
Yes that's the Atari 2600.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2d
Teddy Ruxpin did nothing wrong.
db2@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2d
I see you never played a NIN tape in one.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 2d
Now THAT I gotta see 😂
lagg_mine@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2d
Where are the furbies
protist@retrofed.com · 26 pts · 2d
Right here
Janx@piefed.social · 9 pts · 2d
It would have cost you nothing to not post this.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 2d
Cleary they value more than the mere material currency of this realm.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
But not this actual realm.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1d
The woe of mortals is a shared delicacy, some other mortals appreciate it as well.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Fear is a form of appreciation.
Jokes aside, I don't get the "furby = evil" things. Much like clowns, or Taco Bell giving people diarrhea (present bullshit excluded). Memes gonna meme I guess.
protist@retrofed.com · 5 pts · 1d
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1d
I think it comes from them triggering in the middle of the night, and maybe distortion when the battery gets low.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1d
Did you ever have a furby?
As agameanonymous says... there are many... unsettling quirks about having one long term.
I had one.
Woukdn't stop fucking yammering, clattering its beak, clicking its eyes.
Took it outside, doused it in fire accelerant, burned it till it stopped making noises.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 2d
Oh that's HORRIFYING and DISGUSTING! D:
⬇️ 📂
lagg_mine@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d
It's even worse than I thought it would be
turtlesareneat@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 1d
I see you found Mr. Floofintooth
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 2d
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d
Is this a Dopapod reference?
farmgineer@nord.pub · 7 pts · 1d
Teddy Ruxpin just moves the mouth in response to sound. There's no AI going on there (at least in the original ones).
moakley@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
He can also type comments on internet forums, can't you??
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 2d
Without the Farmer says See N Say we'd never have this great Soundgarden intro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhESD3cU4GU
miseducator@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d
That song fucking rules. Thank you for reminding me of it's existence. RIP Chris
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2d
You'll take my Teddy Ruxpin from my cold dead toddler hands
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 2d
If you time travel and take out the ENIAC, you likely deprive the US of working nuclear weapons during WW2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC
... choose wisely.
Can you predict what would have happened, then?
...are you sure?
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 2 pts · 1d
While I'm back there, I'll kill Hitler's abusive step-father so he grows up without trauma. Er... Aside from seeing his father killed by a time traveler.
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 5 pts · 1d
Ok Altman, Thiel, Jensen? We know it's one of you guys!!!
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 20h
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d
Perceptron: Seer of Light
[ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ 400/400 ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ]
Beth@piefed.social · 4 pts · 2d
My first experience with creepy tech was those talking furby toys.
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 20h
"John Conner?"
TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 2d
I also just saw Toy Story 5.
garbagebagel@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21h
Literally just came home from the theatre lol. I got the wrong message from it cause now I want a Smarty Pants.
TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 20h
I think the message was actually
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Moderation is good, actually. And that we need to make real connections with people, and not just “online” friends. :::
Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2d
You just have to erase the first letter of "emeth".
solidheron@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2d
Call me t-1000 then
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 2 pts · 1d
No! Not my Teddy Ruxpin! 😭