--- title: Bad Apple On A Karaoke Machine | daily.dev description: Adam Gashlin managed to run the classic Bad Apple animation, complete with lyrics, on CD+G (CD+Graphics) hardware — a format designed only for static text and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/bad-apple-on-a-karaoke-machine-focpwwmvo twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Bad Apple On A Karaoke Machine | daily.dev og:description: Adam Gashlin managed to run the classic Bad Apple animation, complete with lyrics, on CD+G (CD+Graphics) hardware — a format designed only for static text and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/bad-apple-on-a-karaoke-machine-focpwwmvo og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fOcPWwMvo.png og:image:alt: Bad Apple On A Karaoke Machine og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Bad Apple On A Karaoke Machine **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Adam Gashlin managed to run the classic Bad Apple animation, complete with lyrics, on CD+G (CD+Graphics) hardware — a format designed only for static text and simple graphics on karaoke machines. The core challenge was CD+G's severe bandwidth limit of 300 screen commands per second, yielding just 0.4 FPS for full-screen updates. By reducing resolution, only updating changed blocks, and using palette swapping to pack four frames into one, he achieved triple-buffered video with audio and lyrics at 16.3 FPS. The technical writeup covers the graphics tricks in detail. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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