Another PCE Rarity: The HuVideo Sampler SCD

[Bardoly]

So, where can another one of these be acquired?

I would love to be able to play Dr. Mario on my Duo.

Thanks for showing us this!

[bt]

So, where can another one of these be acquired?

I would love to be able to play Dr. Mario on my Duo.

I have never seen, nor heard any mention of any other copies of this floating around.  Not saying they don't exist, but as for sources, I can offer no help there, sorry.

[esteban]

At one point I emailed Nimai Malle about this SCD, and he was surprised that it had made it "out of Hudson."  I forget exactly what it was that I was asking him about, or what his reply was (pre-dates my gmail account), may have to search through older email archives).

Thanks for going back and scouring those ancient email files

I have a question for you: the sprite compression you were inquiring about... does that have anything to do with the compression technique that NEC referred to as "NID" during trade shows? I remember reading about NID, but I always assumed that it was never implemented in PCE hardware (perhaps PC-FX...), and was a lossy .jpg-esque sort of thing.

Thanks in advance .

[turbokon]

That is insane that that is running on the Duo.  Thanks for sharing!!  Any chance you would rip it and share it?

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

[bt]

At one point I emailed Nimai Malle about this SCD, and he was surprised that it had made it "out of Hudson."  I forget exactly what it was that I was asking him about, or what his reply was (pre-dates my gmail account), may have to search through older email archives).

Thanks for going back and scouring those ancient email files

I have a question for you: the sprite compression you were inquiring about... does that have anything to do with the compression technique that NEC referred to as "NID" during trade shows? I remember reading about NID, but I always assumed that it was never implemented in PCE hardware (perhaps PC-FX...), and was a lossy .jpg-esque sort of thing.

The emails were from 8 years ago, and although I do not have a copy of what I wrote, I am pretty sure that the sprite compression stuff is mentioned in the Hu7 docs (may need to grab those and re-check), or possible the published notes from the Hudson Developer's Conference (1990 time range).

[Necromancer]

Pretty neato, thanks for sharing the video. 

[SuperPlay]

Interesting post :-) Thanks for sharing the video.

[_joshuaTurbo]

great video BT, thanks for sharing!