What (who) is raster blaster - definition
1981 VIDEO GAME
raster blaster
<hardware, jargon> (Cambridge) Specialised hardware for
bitblt operations (a blitter). Allegedly inspired by
"Rasta Blasta", British slang for the sort of portable stereo
Americans call a "boom box" or "ghetto blaster".
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(1995-03-22)
Raster Blaster
Bill Budge's Raster Blaster (or Rasterblaster on the disk label) is a pioneering home computer pinball simulation written by Bill Budge for the Apple II and published in 1981 by Budge's company, BudgeCo. It was ported to the Atari 8-bit family.
bitmapped display
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DOT MATRIX DATA STRUCTURE, REPRESENTING A GENERALLY RECTANGULAR GRID OF PIXELS, OR POINTS OF COLOR, VIEWABLE VIA A MONITOR, PAPER, OR OTHER DISPLAY MEDIUM
Bit-mapped graphics; Bitmap graphics; Raster image; Raster format; Raster Graphics; Pixelmap; Bitmapped; Raster images; Bit-Mapped Graphics; Rastor; Bitmapped graphics; Bitmapped image; Raster graphic; Rasterized image; Video raster; Raster data; Bitmapped display; Raster drawing; Contones; Gridded data
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Raster Blaster
Bill Budge's Raster Blaster (or Rasterblaster on the disk label) is a pioneering home computer pinball simulation written by Bill Budge for the Apple II and published in 1981 by Budge's company, BudgeCo. It was ported to the Atari 8-bit family. Raster Blaster resembles the Williams Firepower table from 1980.
While not the first pinball game for home computers, Raster Blaster set a higher bar for visual fidelity, and the next several years saw a flurry of Apple II pinball titles: David's Midnight Magic (1982), Night Mission Pinball (1982), and Budge's own Pinball Construction Set (1983).
