New demo uploaded: MAD Program

Michael Parson · Post by **Michael Parson** » Sun Jan 03, 2021 8:21 pm

MAD Program

CX16 port of the "MAD-COMPUTER" program published in the October 1985 issues of Mad Magazine

https://archive.org/details/mad-258

Submitter

Michael Parson

Submitted

01/03/21

Category

Demos

AndyMt · Post by **AndyMt** » Tue Jan 05, 2021 7:16 am

You cannot imagine the flashback I just had ?... The US MAD wasn't available in Switzerland (there was a "softened" German version, though), but my uncle sent them over from the states. So I typed in that code back then in 1985...

desertfish · Post by **desertfish** » Tue Jan 05, 2021 9:23 am

I like the 'scrambled' way the image comes up. I wonder how they did the scrambling of the line segments back then rather than drawing it in a natural order

Michael Parson · Post by **Michael Parson** » Tue Jan 05, 2021 7:38 pm

I first saw this on Adrian's Digital Basement when someone sent him a copy of the magazine.

The original C-64 BASIC version takes about 20 minutes to draw the image, the compiled C version takes about 4 seconds on a C-64 and about 1 second on the x16emu.

Glad I could contribute to the nostalgia. ?