Quake running on an oscilloscope is the ultimate demake
By Chris Plante
Programmer Pekka Väänänen has rendered a playable version of the classic first-person shooter Quake on an oscilloscope. Video game demakes — adaptations or ports that recreate a game in art styles or on hardware from before their time — have become trendy in recent years, but this demo is a particularly old-fashioned throwback. In 1958, physicist William Higinbotham created one of the first video games, a tennis simulation that ran on a Donner Model 30 analog computer and an oscilloscope display. That game used dots on a 2D plane; Väänänen's creation draws the shooter's 3D space in a style reminiscent of a high school student's sketch book.
Väänänen's announcement explains the creation of the demonstration, and includes some open...
December 29, 2014 at 09:56AM
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