Someone Got YouTube Videos To Play on a 40-Year-Old Computer That Can Only Display Green Text
that would go on to sell well over 12 million units around the world,, and was partly responsible for the personal computer revolution in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. In 1977,
Commodore released the PET computer which looks laughably outdated now but sold for well over $3,500 when introduced 45 years ago. rebadged for the Swedish market a few years laterfeature is a monochromatic bright green CRT display with the ability to display a whopping 80x25 grid of characters. To say it’s ugly by today’s screen
standards is an understatement, so what better way to use this relic of the early desktop PCs than by getting YouTube videos to play on it?Not only was the PET 600's screen limited to just displaying characters but the machines behind them were impossibly slow, often taking a few seconds to load and display lists of files or other data.
the PET 600's expansion ports on the back. Inside the cartridge is a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W which connects to YouTube over wifi, loads a requested video, and then converts theA second interface card loads the generated frames from the Raspberry Pi into the PET’s video memory, which is the bottleneck of the process given the antique PC’s limited processing power, but through optimization,
Jemander managed to achieve a very watchable 30 FPS playback speed. Watching YouTube on a 45-year-old desktop PC is far from easy on the eyes, but the fact that it’s even possible is beyond impressive.
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