Forem: Michael Vogt

Visualise CPU Registers

Michael Vogt — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:52:22 +0000

Visualize retro machines inner working is something I really like, maybe because it's a bit weird or because it forces you to look at a machine in a different way.

Anyway I visualize the Condition Code CPU register of a Motorola 6809 CPU on a art print. What's the Condition Code register? Condition codes are extra bits kept by a processor that summarize the results of an operation and that affect the execution of later instructions (Mark Smotherman).

Check it out at https://www.concealed-art.com/product-page/circus-voltaire-condition-codes - I hope you like it!

Sidegig project: Art Prints

Michael Vogt — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 11:46:08 +0000

After hours of tweaking and experimenting I'm proud to present "The Champions Pub" Art Print - squeezed almost 2000 unique DMD screenshots from my emulator, check it out at:
https://www.concealed-art.com/product-page/the-champion-pub

Lock at this beauty - BSD

Michael Vogt — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 16:00:52 +0000

Look what I just got - sooner or later I will replace the CPU board with a custom board that runs my nodejs emulator (using a rpi). Scary!

Use Node.js to create official licensed art prints

Michael Vogt — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 16:13:11 +0000

I wrote a Pinball emulator (https://github.com/neophob/wpc-emu) - and use this emulator to create nice looking art prints.
They are pretty geeky/nerdy - but I really like them.

The latest series of my art prints contains direct video memory dumps - which would scream for copyright violations. Thats why those prints are officially licensed from Bally/Williams.

What do you think about https://www.concealed-art.com/product-page/congo-dmd-art-print

Cheers

DevOps Jobs - I don't get it!

Michael Vogt — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 17:03:52 +0000

So there are a lot of DevOps job offerings out there. Quite a lot of job offerings I see are NOT DevOps jobs - but only Ops jobs. DevOps without doing Dev is Ops!

Whats your view about this topic?

A pinball emulator that runs in your browser

Michael Vogt — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 19:54:34 +0000

I wrote a Williams/Bally pinball emulator that runs in your browser (https://playfield.dev/) and in your shell.
I started to create art prints - this is the pitch:

Reveal the hidden beauty

"Concealed Art" uses retro game consoles, pinball machines and arcade machines as data source and visualize the machines inner working, uncovering beautiful and unexpected patterns which were hidden to the world until now.

Games that were written 30 years ago are used as a source to build a new, interesting representation.

Make sure to check out https://concealed-art.com/ and let me know what you think!