ATW800/2 awesomeness

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Re: ATW800/2 awesomeness

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As was mentioned in a Reddit post, if it can do that with DOOM, then
why not consider a suitable format and do full motion video...

Or...since the transputer side of things seems to be pretty amazing,
a capable, modern browser that can handle most of today's standards?

We can dream, right? :)
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Doom is very impressive for sure, but it'll be nice when it's playable fully rather than just the demo, but fair do's, it's a good start.

Now I have 2 additional transputer modules I'd like to get familiar with just how to use them for X Windows as I'm not sure they are just now, though the CPUs are actually started with startns atw.map command, and the map file is one I created with the ATW/Helios tools.

I'll figure it out I'm sure.
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Agreed about DOOM - it's great eye-candy at the moment though. :)
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Darklord wrote: 15 Jun 2026 00:35 Agreed about DOOM - it's great eye-candy at the moment though. :)
Not something I'd have ever thought I'd see on my MSTE for sure. though Dread is pretty good on my 4MB MSTE.
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Speaking of Dread, I wonder if we'll ever get a full release.

That would be nice. :)
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Dread is now a dead project having been reborn as Grind

The ST(e) version of Grind is not being actively worked on but I am sure that KK wants it to be part of the final release (which will undoubtedly be commercial)
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alexh wrote: 16 Jun 2026 08:24 Dread is now a dead project having been reborn as Grind

The ST(e) version of Grind is not being actively worked on but I am sure that KK wants it to be part of the final release (which will undoubtedly be commercial)
Thanks for the update. I'd be perfectly happy to buy a full, boxed set, commercial version of this. :)
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