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Vidi 1-10 - Pre 1995 Mode 1 & 2 screens captured using the ROMBO Vidi digitiser

Started by ComSoft6128, 16:36, 09 July 19

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ComSoft6128

Pre 1995 screens from UK television broadcasts - news bulletins, music videos, films, cartoons, dramas and documentaries.
At the moment I don't have a program to automatically display these files so until I find something I'm limited to using
MicroDesign Plus. :( 

The 17K screen files are stored on Romdos D20 format (792K) 3.5" disks which can hold up to 44 of these files on each disk.

Some of these grabs are the work of the political cartoonist Les Gibbard:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Gibbard

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/oct/20/les-gibbard-obituary

One file, "Osprey.scr" is not a Vidi capture but is actually from a commercial CPC program.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_lTxkJfl_I&t=31s

Links:
http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/VIDI_digitizer

http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/ROMDOS
Not emulated - original hardware and software

ComSoft6128


ComSoft6128

Video 3.

Most of the screens shown in this thread became part of the WACCI PD library so that users of the Advanced Art Studio, Cherry Paint, Stop Press etc could have access to images to work on. In fact one or two of the screens shown in the videos are definitely not mine so must have came from other users of the Vidi hardware who had contributed their own screens to the library.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0qEwQeWjzI&t=160s

Links:

http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Protext

http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/ParaDOS

http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Desktop_Environment_System

http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Cherry_Paint

http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/The_Advanced_OCP_Art_Studio

http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Stop_Press

http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/WACCI

ComSoft6128

Video 4.

Now using the ROMBO Vidi ROM to display the files:
Arab 1 - 4 are from a documentary which included an early illustrated version of the Arabian Nights.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVWjU9-iRSs

ComSoft6128

Video 5 - 1991

Ten Mode 2 ROMBO Vidi screens grabbed from UK TV programmes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2ZSckstnG8

Not emulated - original hardware and software.
Please note that the aspect ratio for this YouTube video is 16:9 but as the CPC monitor has an aspect

ratio of 4:3 you may wish to adjust your viewing device accordingly.

ComSoft6128

Video 6.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4ClKROE5HI

Screen captures from late eighties or early nineties television broadcasts - news bulletins, music videos, films, cartoons, dramas and documentaries.
Displayed using the ROMBO Vidi Rom.

Link:
http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/VIDI_digitizer

Not emulated - original hardware and software.
Please note that the aspect ratio for this YouTube video is 16:9 but the CPC monitor
has an aspect ratio of 4:3 so you may wish to adjust your viewing device accordingly.

LambdaMikel

Nice!
Do we have a modern substitute for the digitizer?
In hardware I mean... Not that it would be terribly practicable but fun!

ComSoft6128

Unfortunately not - I'd love (and would buy) a modern Vidi device. First to be captured would be: Trump, Putin and Johnson.
Then the fun would begin with the Advanced Art Studio and MicroDesign Plus - all the speech bubbles I could fill :o



ComSoft6128

Video 7.

Eighteen grabs from analogue(!) TV broadcasts in the late eighties or early nineties. Mostly Mode 1 this time with a few Mode 2 screens and two loading screens from games which were stored on the same disk.
The Mode 1 loading screen for Dragon Ninja is so detailed I thought I was looking at a Mode 2 screen - does anyone have any info on who created it?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjhcVwkc1iU

The loading screen for Dragon Ninja, with the correct palette, can be seen here:

https://cpcrulez.fr/GamesTest/dragon_ninja.htm?t=Uw==


Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Dudes_Vs._DragonNinja

http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/VIDI_digitizer

http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Video_modes

Not emulated - original hardware and software.
Please note that the aspect ratio for this YouTube video is 16:9 but the CPC monitor
has an aspect ratio of 4:3 so you may wish to adjust your viewing device accordingly.

ComSoft6128

One for Dalek fans.

Another ten Mode 2 screens - various subjects.
Screen captures from late eighties or early nineties television broadcasts - news bulletins, music videos, films, cartoons, dramas and documentaries. Displayed using the ROMBO Vidi Rom.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0rcJIMTIFE


Links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek

http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/VIDI_digitizer

http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Video_modes

Not emulated - original hardware and software.
Please note that the aspect ratio for this YouTube video is 16:9 but the CPC monitor
has an aspect ratio of 4:3 so you may wish to adjust your viewing device accordingly.

ComSoft6128

Video 9.

Ten Mode 1 & 2 screens.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF8SpK-tcsI


Links:


http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/VIDI_digitizer

http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Video_modes

Not emulated - original hardware and software.
Please note that the aspect ratio for this YouTube video is 16:9 but the CPC monitor
has an aspect ratio of 4:3 so you may wish to adjust your viewing device accordingly.






ComSoft6128

Vidi 10

Five Mode 2 screen grabs.
Unusually I can identify the source and year of the image displayed from 2:00 - it is from the Nine Inch Nail "Head Like a Hole" video released in 1990. This particular image is shown in the NIN video at 0:45 and 1:49 and for a comparison of a Mode 2 grab and the original source I have included a link to this video on YouTube.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_jmSQ6Ys4

Source video:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao-Sahfy7Hg

Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_Like_a_Hole

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Reznor

Not emulated - original hardware and software.
Please note that the aspect ratio for this YouTube video is 16:9 but the CPC monitor
has an aspect ratio of 4:3 so you may wish to adjust your viewing device accordingly.

ComSoft6128

I'm including this video in the thread as I believe that the 3rd screen is the only example of a screen captured by the Electric Studio digitiser available anywhere. In fact it may be from their PCW digitiser as I can't find any info/reviews of a CPC version.

1985 - Electric Studio light pen example files.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtFCcVRfBQ0

Links:
https://archive.org/details/8000-plus-magazine-10/page/n17

https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Electric_Studio

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