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A stick figure long forgotten: Alfredo on the Apple //
Submitted by Joe Fourhman on June 13, 2009 – 12:46 pm6 Comments
You’re going to have to admit your age if you recall Softdisk, an early floppy disk-based magazine for the Apple //. We had a couple of them when I was a kid, and the chief highlight was Adventures of Alfredo, a computer-animated stick figure cartoon about a little guy who was constantly getting killed (shades of Wile E. Coyote and South Park’s Kenny).
I just found a bunch of Alfredo cartoons in YouTube and was disturbed at how well I remembered them. I always assumed that Alfredo was animated “live” as the code was read (IE, this was not a Quicktime file, to jump ahead a generation or two), so does that make Alfredo among the first CG cutscenes rendered in real time?
Tags: Alfredo, Apple, machinima, Retro
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Oh no, Mr. Alfredo!
Great stuff. Today, this would be rated T for alcohol use. And it's all lines.
Check out the refresh rate on that bad boy.
It certainly seems to run a lot faster than I recall on my old Apple //c.
Oh no, Mr. Alfredo!
Great stuff. Today, this would be rated T for alcohol use. And it's all lines.
Check out the refresh rate on that bad boy.
It certainly seems to run a lot faster than I recall on my old Apple //c.