Mindset-The graphics workstation you've never heard of!

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  @obsoletegeek · 7 years ago (edited)

  What’s even more amazing is there were additional Mindset computers and peripherals found in subsequent months. The owner of Computer Reset said he procured these from a computer graphics artist in the 1980s. This is the ONLY video about this computer on YouTube!

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  @drzazgi666 · 7 years ago

  Vyper looks absolutely stunning for 1984

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• WI

  @witeshade · 7 years ago

  I imagine some executive laying awake in bed late at night thinking back to when he told the team "it's compatible enough, we're good" and how that ruined his company

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  @FerHivore · 7 years ago

  Wait, so in this timeline, Mindset failed? That's SO weird! Sent from my MindPhone

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  @gerardflach2588 · 7 years ago

  The "Pacman"  program demonstrates the feature of hardware sprite collision

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• RO

  @robertsteel3563 · 6 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a_qJFD80_c&amp;t=560">9:20</a> &quot;Volume in drive A is NOTFORSALE!&quot;<br>Me: Dang it, I wanted to buy the volume in drive A! :( :P

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• TS

  @tschak909 · 7 years ago

  The AT program is showing the coprocessor interaction between the bit blitter <i>AND</i> the hardware collision detection registers, which were nicely exposed in the BASIC.

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• MA

  @maxpiantoni · 7 years ago

  The designer listed on the MoMA page is Robert Brunner - he went on to lead the Apple Industrial design team, and was responsible for a lot of their mid 90s design direction. He is also the guy who hired Jony Ive

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• PI

  @PixelPipes · 7 years ago

  It&apos;s slowly becoming more clear to the public at large that Computer Reset is a serious treasure trove of computer history. That place NEEDS to be preserved!

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• ST

  @Sterophonick · 7 years ago (edited)

  This machine was recently promoted to working in MAME.

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• TS

  @tschak909 · 7 years ago

  @David - the reason Planet X3 fails, is because while the Mindset does implement the BIOS calls for CGA video (INT 10H), it does NOT implement the CGA hardware registers (nor the hardware registers for the PC speaker) AT ALL. The mindset framebuffer can be located anywhere in memory, and can be changed to anywhere in memory, as well as being able to have its bit blitter move graphics data <i>very</i> quickly through the system memory. (In this way, it&apos;s very much like a proto-Amiga, sans hardware sprites).<br><br>The nice thing is, that while the IBM PC BIOS functions were horrible piles of crap, the ROM BIOS functions on the mindset (INT traps 0xEE and 0xEF) are very flexible and reasonably fast, especially since a lot of them cause graphics coprocessor commands to be emitted over DMA, and so you could probably port Planet X3 with little effort to use the advanced graphics features of the mindset. :)

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  @roterex9115 · 5 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a_qJFD80_c&amp;t=645">10:45</a> this is collision detection, and can be remarkably complex as in its most basic form the computer has to compare the position of every object against every other object. While i can&apos;t say for sure, the fact that they built a demo around it says to me that they probably had a function specifically for it that could be used by program designers. Thus the demo was probably to show off its features and act as a template for developers.

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