bitfixer | Commodore PET Video with PETpix! YouTube, Live, and more on a 40+ year old text-based computer. @bitfixer6502 | Uploaded August 2022 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
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PETpix is a way to play video on your Commodore PET. Since PETs cannot normally display bitmapped graphics, the way to do this is to take 8x8 chunks from an original image and match to whatever PETscii character the computer can display. See how PETpix works and check out the repository to make one for yourself.

PETpix will be at VCF West 2022, Aug 6-7 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. More information here:
vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west

PETpix repository:
github.com/bitfixer/petpix_v3

Videos of other incarnations of PETpix in past years. Quality and FPS have improved since then!
youtube.com/watch?v=zQ8-iEewVDY
youtube.com/watch?v=nUn6BbRDnpI
youtube.com/watch?v=bTd58WZ1zEE

My website:
bitfixer.com

Order a PETpix board from me (soon):
bitfixer.com/petpix