This movie demonstrates the graphics performance of my 1982 Tektronix 4054A graphics computer.
All the graphics, including the title screen was generated on my Tektronix computer from a Tek BASIC program I wrote. The Star Wars music was in the 1970's Invaders-I BASIC program I demonstrated in a previous video.
I created the text from SVG images using Inkscape to perform line tracing and to save the vector image as an HPGL file. I then translated the HPGL vectors into Tektronix Fast Graphics format which encodes 10-bit X/Y move or draw vectors into 3 ASCII 7-bit characters. I used the 4052R12 Graphics Enhancement ROM Pack "RTAPER" and "SCALE" commands to taper and scale the title graphics, and saved the title graphics in a single file.
Similar process for creating the Star Wars DROIDS text on the second screen, and C3-PO, BB-8 and R2-D2 image files.
It only takes a single R12 ROM command "RDRAW" to display an image file anywhere on the screen.
The entire program for the video only took 18 lines of BASIC and 573 bytes!
The program loaded all the images from my GPIB Flash Drive, since the Tektronix 4054A only has 64KB of RAM. The 4054A 19" display is a storage tube - that persists the vectors on the face of the tube without taking any memory on the computer.
The 4054A loaded and displayed over 25000 vectors and played 8 seconds of audio in this 36 second movie!
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