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spooky!
rulez added on the 2025-04-13 23:22:21 by psenough 
Awesome prod!
Very coll!
Great demo. The picture alone is already worth a thumbs up :)
very nice one. not scarry at all!
Nice prod
!!!
Great demo and cool pictures.
this prod is amazing, thank you for your effort
cool
Pretty cool! The demo is almost half a mega, and uses divMMC. Would I be wrong to guess it's mostly animation then?
Dead on!
Awesome demo!!! This is example how new ZX demos should look like. Kudos for all involved.
Cute
ok.
Cool morbid shit & a great starfield thingy !!!
great
Great buildup and presentation with the accompanied sound/music; and fitting effects that gave that WOW feeling. Great complete packge!
fantastic!
Wowowow! Really rocking production, propelled forward by a proper AY burner. Well done!
Great!
Great atmosphere and execution. ZX Spectrum kicks ass again, great prod!
good stuff!
Inventive.
Wooohoo!
Very nice code & ideas.
norm
Deadly! Awesome effects & music!
Nice!
Excellent! Speccy *is* alive.
+1
Great demo, awesome design!
Dope as fuck!
mortal combat'ants of 8-bit scene
Joli !
Noice
yes
Absolutely insane
The screenshot drew me in.
I stayed for the rest of the show.
I stayed for the rest of the show.
♥
very "nice" show
Awesome Speccy goodness! That soundtrack!
Amazing prod!!
Great stuff!
The music is fantastic, and the design and graphics are excellent.
The music is fantastic, and the design and graphics are excellent.
good
Great! :)
Awesome, especially dig the ending screen with the rotating stars.
sweet
spookily nice! A real reason to dust off the Spectrum
Great stuff, especially that soundtrack!
Stunning on all counts!
Rulz!
Great Speccy prod!
awesome
cool
Wonderful
Cool!!!
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The demo is almost half a mega, and uses divMMC. Would I be wrong to guess it's mostly animation then?
Using simple mathematics: the TAP file is 477kB and the data inside is mostly uncompressed (use any binary viewer to see loooong strings of same byte etc, or notice it packs to 50% of it's size under simple ZIP). ZX has no text mode, so 1 frame is 6,75kB. So the raw data is ~71 frames. That's 1+ second of playback :)
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"ZX SPECTRUM WITH DIVMMC INTERFACE OR EMULATOR RECOMMENDED FOR FULL IMMERSION"
There's some great stuff in here, but I'm not a fan of the trend towards relying on emulators or requiring you to add a very modern "magic insta-load" device to your retro computer to watch a demo.
"The demo is almost half a mega, and uses divMMC. Would I be wrong to guess it's mostly animation then?"
No.. there's clever stuff going on here, but it could just as easily be animation. And, no, I don't mean streaming whole frames - no-one is suggesting it goes that far. But there's a whole lot of room between "pure animation" and "pure code". The kind of highly optimized renderer that chews through data prepared offline (think: 3D flyby renderer where the tris have already been through T&L, clipping, etc.) will do well on this platform because you can dedicate your whole RAM to a few seconds of screen time if you like - those pesky loading times between scenes are no longer an issue.
I wonder how many of the audience understand what's happening here, that this isn't the Spectrum setup you remember from the early 80s? I guess it might also be the case that many do know and don't care - which is fair enough :D
So maybe I'm just the old man shouting at clouds and this is the only way that the Speccy scene has left to evolve? Or is this the "Does the Spectrum scene need to be divided" discussion all over again?
Anyway.... I still gotta thumb this up!
There's some great stuff in here, but I'm not a fan of the trend towards relying on emulators or requiring you to add a very modern "magic insta-load" device to your retro computer to watch a demo.
"The demo is almost half a mega, and uses divMMC. Would I be wrong to guess it's mostly animation then?"
No.. there's clever stuff going on here, but it could just as easily be animation. And, no, I don't mean streaming whole frames - no-one is suggesting it goes that far. But there's a whole lot of room between "pure animation" and "pure code". The kind of highly optimized renderer that chews through data prepared offline (think: 3D flyby renderer where the tris have already been through T&L, clipping, etc.) will do well on this platform because you can dedicate your whole RAM to a few seconds of screen time if you like - those pesky loading times between scenes are no longer an issue.
I wonder how many of the audience understand what's happening here, that this isn't the Spectrum setup you remember from the early 80s? I guess it might also be the case that many do know and don't care - which is fair enough :D
So maybe I'm just the old man shouting at clouds and this is the only way that the Speccy scene has left to evolve? Or is this the "Does the Spectrum scene need to be divided" discussion all over again?
Anyway.... I still gotta thumb this up!
I understand the point about divMMC - it's the similar dilemma as on the 8bit Atari, which is solved by boldly saying "1MB extra memory is now standard because otherwise loads break demo flow". That is something the ZX scene has to decide by themselves. In the C64 scene we stick to stock config with the floppy, but we already have there IRQ loading so we are spoiled ;)
Unfortunately that is not the case, as in the real world loading even from the divMMC is far from instantaneous. And they are carefully taken into account in this demo.
You can just have separate categories in the demo compo - that's a bit easier than dividing the scene ;)
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those pesky loading times between scenes are no longer an issue.
Unfortunately that is not the case, as in the real world loading even from the divMMC is far from instantaneous. And they are carefully taken into account in this demo.
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Or is this the "Does the Spectrum scene need to be divided" discussion all over again?
You can just have separate categories in the demo compo - that's a bit easier than dividing the scene ;)
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Unfortunately that is not the case, as in the real world loading even from the divMMC is far from instantaneous. And they are carefully taken into account in this demo.
Yeah.. fair point. "Insta-load" is an exaggeration on my part but loading is fast enough that the flow is not broken if it's handled well, like it is here.
Is there a practical limit of file size? Or a compo rule or even some sort of gentlemen's agreement to stay below half a meg? I'm against this technique, though I never say never and I'm also interested to see how far it can be taken.
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