Posted By
Luca
on 2018-04-03
07:33:22
 |  Re: Two Lost Demos From TPSH
Some updates about the "face of a woman" case.
- someone C64 sided too asked for the same question at Lemon64;
- I sent an email to the author, little hope but who knows...
- after the original Apple release, the "face of a woman" picture can be seen in the magazines' adverts of the Super-Res Graphic Board for Commodore PET (see here);
- TPUG Issue 19 (1985Dec) advert clearly reports "...and only one image can be shown on an Apple II computer (the original source)...";
- on the site linked above, there's available the demo disk (.d80) for SuperPET with that image; ain't able to run it on VICE xPET emulator, probably due to the lack of this particular hardware emulation, but it's possible to load the 16,7 Kb file to see that it really is the "face of a woman", stored in height sequence in a format for a larger display, and the file is named "KAREN"!
EDIT: Bill answered back promptly and told me his slice of the history, now, I have a whole tale to write down and spread, and to place somewhere definitely, so I think it's time for another old, badly coded, irq missing issue of Lone News :)
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