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#1
Is it just me or do the default avatars look like something from Space Invaders? I was thinking that today and then someone posted a question about Space Invaders.
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#2
I like them. And yes, they look like an 8-bits game. I believe that Space Invaders is 16-bits  Big Grin
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(Mar-15-2017, 10:45 PM)wavic Wrote: I believe that Space Invaders is 16-bits

Really? Wikipedia says it was built on an Intel 8080, an 8-bit chip.
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8080 is my old friend!
It was an indeed an 8 bit processor.
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#5
Perhaps the original, but I've never seen it
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#6
It is only a web search away :) More than 8 or 16 bit, the important resemblance is the small resolution of the alien sprites, which do in fact come close so some but not all random renderings of our default avatars, which are nothing more than symmetrical random-ness, but maybe that's enough already. Take a look at some examples in our member list.

Here is a screenshot from wikipedia for your comparison:

[Image: SpaceInvaders-Gameplay.gif]
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#7
Thanks! I see now. The forum is invaded by aliens :)
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(Mar-16-2017, 09:54 AM)wavic Wrote: Perhaps the original be but I've never seen it

We had one at the Uni cafeteria.... Very popular. Guess what happened in class when the professors asked us to fill in the empty front rows :)

By the way there is one invaider visible on GoogleEarth, done by the "Invader" artist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2" xmlns:gx="http://www.google.com/kml/ext/2.2" xmlns:kml="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<Document>
	<name>KmlFile</name>
	<StyleMap id="m_ylw-pushpin">
		<Pair>
			<key>normal</key>
			<styleUrl>#s_ylw-pushpin</styleUrl>
		</Pair>
		<Pair>
			<key>highlight</key>
			<styleUrl>#s_ylw-pushpin_hl</styleUrl>
		</Pair>
	</StyleMap>
	<Style id="s_ylw-pushpin_hl">
		<IconStyle>
			<scale>1.3</scale>
			<Icon>
				<href>http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pushpin/ylw-pushpin.png</href>
			</Icon>
			<hotSpot x="20" y="2" xunits="pixels" yunits="pixels"/>
		</IconStyle>
	</Style>
	<Style id="s_ylw-pushpin">
		<IconStyle>
			<scale>1.1</scale>
			<Icon>
				<href>http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pushpin/ylw-pushpin.png</href>
			</Icon>
			<hotSpot x="20" y="2" xunits="pixels" yunits="pixels"/>
		</IconStyle>
	</Style>
	<Placemark>
		<name>Invader</name>
		<LookAt>
			<longitude>2.363303627307901</longitude>
			<latitude>48.8656272805284</latitude>
			<altitude>0</altitude>
			<heading>0.01970315575378218</heading>
			<tilt>29.99968237102209</tilt>
			<range>45.75504389540937</range>
			<gx:altitudeMode>relativeToSeaFloor</gx:altitudeMode>
		</LookAt>
		<styleUrl>#m_ylw-pushpin</styleUrl>
		<Point>
			<gx:drawOrder>1</gx:drawOrder>
			<coordinates>2.363296678819781,48.8656574019767,0</coordinates>
		</Point>
	</Placemark>
</Document>
</kml>
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#9
First was the intel 4004 in 1971.
I still have a bunch of these in a tote somewhere.
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#10
The oldest one I have seen ever was Intel 80286. And few unknown IBM ... I don't know what were those. Huge like fridge boxes.
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