Old school demos and beyond

[antus]

So, I saw this article the other day:
http://games.slashdot.org/story/15/01/2 ... old-record

And "red sector incorporated" rang a bell.

Today It hit me - Tristar and Red Sector Incorporated = TRSI.

A bit of searching and this sort of stuff comes up... a blast from the past!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=WaL-lghFOzU

Search just "TRSI" on youtube for more.

So obviously the RSI part is still going, and indeed hes doing some pretty cool stuff today. This oscilloscope demo got me. I first saw the rigol link, but I think the old school CRO works better:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVdWxKZVYC0[/youtube]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1JahOh3Lbg[/youtube]

[antus]

Ok so it continues.. not only are TRSI still out there, and still doing cool things but... they actually wrote a commodore 64 demo... built a satellite... put said satellite in to space (not entirely their own work, that part, but it happened)... then connected a c64 to the satellite over a radio link built from a DVB-T card, received the demo from space.. and executed it on a C64 at a demoparty, live. C64 demo loaded from space. Legit. mind=blown

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLrF_2aS_hI[/youtube]

[Holden202T]

why ... cause we can

[The1]

there's lots of fun stuff that happened back in the day, the amphour radio show has a few interviews with the commodore and amiga guys, lots of stories if your interested in the electronics side of it all.