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Somewhat Less Limited Capabilities by Noice [web]
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screenshot added by Sdw on 2009-09-13 11:18:05
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release date : september 2009
release party : Sundown 2009
compo : oldskool demo
ranked : 6th
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popularity : 65%
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alltime top: #1379
added on the 2009-09-13 11:18:05 by Sdw Sdw

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You can run it in the EightyOne emulator. Make sure you choose ZX81 hardware and 16kb expansion.
Otherwise you can watch the YouTube video.
Note however that the scroller seems very jerky in the youtube video, on the real thing it is smooth as butter 50 fps! :)

If you have a real ZX81 you can use this to load the binary from an mp3 player to the cassette interface. Note that it takes almost four minutes to load a 10kb binary - that's some serious transfer speed! :)
added on the 2009-09-13 11:21:34 by Sdw Sdw
nice!
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 11:25:26 by dairos dairos
Fucken yeah!
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 11:26:11 by syphus syphus
Yeyyy!!!
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 11:37:38 by Optimus Optimus
woot great
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 11:41:14 by noby noby
splendid!
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 11:47:18 by parcelshit parcelshit
powerfull (это вам не грязным пальцем в пупке ковыряться!)
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 12:18:34 by psndcj//tbk psndcj//tbk
awesome!
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 12:37:46 by svo svo
Yeah!
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 12:41:12 by 4mat 4mat
Seriously hardcore. Although the execution is so slick here that it's probably hard to tell exactly *how* hardcore. But trust me, it is.
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 12:47:54 by gasman gasman
.
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 13:38:43 by panic panic
are you fucking kidding me
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 13:44:55 by PENETRATOR PENETRATOR
Lookin' good! :)
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 13:46:09 by exocet exocet
lovely!
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 13:48:21 by EviL EviL
Holly cow!
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 14:32:12 by MooZ MooZ
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FUCK YOU
hehe, great platform choice. as usual, great stuff Shadow! :)
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 15:08:24 by button button
noice! hardcore on all obscure platforms!
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 15:28:16 by v3nom v3nom
Nice :)
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 15:44:18 by Dbug Dbug
Really great.
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 16:08:22 by Shockwave Shockwave
Utterly rules :-)
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 17:35:19 by evil evil
wtf!
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 17:56:16 by toxie toxie
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 17:56:18 by Quarryman Quarryman
Quality as usual :)
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 18:02:45 by Alpha C Alpha C
Amazing
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 18:15:39 by Claw Claw
cool !
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 18:38:46 by keito keito
O_o
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 18:51:01 by substrate substrate
wormhole<3
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 18:56:34 by maali maali
awesome
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 19:38:30 by comankh comankh
Unbelievable!
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 20:11:44 by Vedem Vedem
Incredible prod for ZX81.

Thumbs up, Soldier! :)
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 21:08:04 by FunkyM FunkyM
Crazy
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 21:33:38 by BackSpace BackSpace
:)
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 23:44:38 by texel texel
outstanding :)
rulez added on the 2009-09-13 23:59:08 by spiny spiny
what's the formula for a wormhole? cool stuff! but .. hnn.. need... more... explanation of cool tricks.. tech .. info . for big appreciation.. hnn
rulez added on the 2009-09-14 00:08:28 by loaderror loaderror
I certainly hope it runs in NTSC (:

(Yes I know I'm the ONLY Timex-Sinclair 1000 scener, but it's in the US and I can't get it here yet. I will.)
no music :( but cool none the less.
rulez added on the 2009-09-14 14:42:07 by visy visy
It's was the first computer i touched...
You almost made me cry, naughty boy!
rulez added on the 2009-09-14 15:21:51 by untel untel
What visy said.
rulez added on the 2009-09-14 15:35:54 by StingRay StingRay
NOICE visuals!
rulez added on the 2009-09-14 17:43:19 by dv$ dv$
Fuck, man - satan helped You for sure.
I love the stuff.
Ah, only one thing: remembering long time of loading You could next time loop the demo.
Thanx for Your work and I hope it's not Your the last demo for ZX81.
rulez added on the 2009-09-14 18:12:30 by YERZMYEY/H-PRG YERZMYEY/H-PRG
Visy: this computer has no sound.
Great!
rulez added on the 2009-09-14 20:37:26 by ham ham
Damn. I soldered this machine together 25 years ago with my own hands and typed in my ASM code directly as character strings in a REM line. But this one is madness. How the hell do you get that noisy characters for the rotator and the plasma in place. Is is there a way to put RAM where the charset is?
rulez added on the 2009-09-14 23:19:27 by JAC! JAC!
very nice, noice. Should have ranked much higher.
rulez added on the 2009-09-14 23:23:05 by auld auld
Only 6th place? I voted for it as a 'rules!'
rulez added on the 2009-09-15 00:32:05 by CiH CiH
Unpossible!
rulez added on the 2009-09-15 16:02:40 by jt77 jt77
Thank you all for the thumbs up, much appreciated!
Some more technical info:
Yes, it is possible to point the char-generator at any 512-byte bank in the ROM,
this is utilized in the fullscreen plasma part.
I wrote a program on the PC that simply brute-force analyzed all 16 possible charsets (8kb ROM, 512-bytes per char = 16 possible ones) to find the one which would give the highest number of chars from 'no-pixel set' up to 'char filled with pixels'.
The radial plasma uses my custom 32x48 mode, essentially giving half-height chars.
By using the normal charset but just the upper half, I managed to get somewhat 'dither'-looking 8x4 blocks.
added on the 2009-09-15 16:19:32 by Sdw Sdw
rnr
rulez added on the 2009-09-15 21:51:53 by kyv kyv
wild and exotic hardware is the bestest category to compete in.
Fun guaranteed.
rulez added on the 2009-09-16 13:23:14 by d0DgE d0DgE
very noice indeed
rulez added on the 2009-09-16 20:59:20 by pigpenpete pigpenpete
Yerz: It does too! The tape interface makes 2 tones (:
clever stuff! should have placed higher i reckon
rulez added on the 2009-09-16 22:32:04 by evilpaul evilpaul
Yes, exactly. The tape interface could be utilized for sound ;)
added on the 2009-09-16 22:51:01 by visy visy
Cool!
rulez added on the 2009-09-16 22:53:53 by Rob Rob
truck / visy: I realise that you're not being *entirely* serious, but the sound and video output on the ZX81 are wired to the same bit of the same I/O port. A demo that managed to combine audio and visuals effectively really would be worth a thumb up... I suspect the best you're going to get is a "tribute" to Cognoscere :-)
added on the 2009-09-16 23:07:18 by gasman gasman
Well, in theory it could play sounds via tape-out but sadly - somehow - it has much weaker amplifier than ZX Spectrum has. I was loading many sound progs for ZX81 but the sound was on the edge of audibility (is there such a word in English?!?!).
Anyway - with sound generated by Z80 the screen would be static. :) At best. :)
Of course there was AY-interface for ZX81 (actually it was BEFORE Spectrum) but for now I didn't manage
1) to force anybody to port the device to ZX81
2) to force anybody to make progs for it. ;)
Awesome! Is that for 16K rampack? Can't believe it would be 1K :)
rulez added on the 2009-09-17 15:05:27 by aki aki
I dont see anything special in here that looks hard to be done on 16k ram / slower cpu than c64. piggie for the platform.
added on the 2009-09-18 15:29:53 by Oswald Oswald
hires was possible:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Fxbe_315U&feature=PlayList&p=68657B76B839A71C&index=11
added on the 2009-09-18 15:43:38 by Oswald Oswald
Oswald: The graphics technique in the video you linked is not true hires (ie. place pixels wherever you want), it's "pseudo-hires", essentially using 8x1 characters, about the same technique I use for my 8x4 mode, with only the first row from each character being used. Since there are only 64 characters in any given bank, and you can't redefine them, you end up with less than 64 of the 256 possibilities you would need for real hires.
Trying to do stuff like plotting or something in pseudohires would be a total nightmare.
added on the 2009-09-18 15:56:56 by Sdw Sdw
Correction, you have inverted chars aswell, so you have a theoretical max of 128 bit patterns, not 64.
added on the 2009-09-18 16:05:49 by Sdw Sdw
shadow: you rule as usual :-)
rulez added on the 2009-09-18 18:03:31 by thec thec
sdw, Im aware its a hacked charscreen but not much more .) so maybe its possible to do any line-any place effects? (FPP on c64) would be cool for twisters, etc :) I dont get you tho, charset may be not redefined, but repointed ?!
added on the 2009-09-18 20:39:48 by Oswald Oswald
Oswald: Yes, exactly. The charset can be repointed to anywhere in ROM, but not to RAM (unless you make hardware mods). And ROM code has proven not to yield the prettiest of graphics! :)

And *shhhhh* about the FPP stuff, you are spoiling the surprise of some of the effects I have under development! ;)
added on the 2009-09-18 23:34:36 by Sdw Sdw
Mister Foxy "O", you still suck as your crap machine do and still even ZX81 can do better things than your crap hardware for young wealthy yuppies with no brain like yourself.
Thank you for your crap comment - every crap comment from you means the demo is highly incredible, you jerk.
added on the 2009-09-18 23:58:07 by abscess abscess
abscess, are you even capable of commenting on pouet without insulting C= in some way or another? (regardless of your opinion of Oswald). Your 'demoblog' speaks volumes...
added on the 2009-09-19 00:20:03 by Alpha C Alpha C
noice!
good work once again !
rulez added on the 2009-09-19 08:28:30 by ɧ4ɾɗվ. ɧ4ɾɗվ.
lol, abscess is truly hillarious

"Yes. Spectrum clearly has the best graphic among 8-bitters"

and here's my thumb for using rom as charset ;)
rulez added on the 2009-09-19 13:06:37 by Oswald Oswald
amusing comments :)

great prod, i like it!
rulez added on the 2009-09-19 13:21:08 by gentleman gentleman
Of course I said nothing about Spectrum, as it's a ZX81 demo (mr Foxy "O" can distinguish only between his device and "all other computers", that's even more pityful than I thought) but of course the "O" is not capable of commenting on pouet without insulting Spectrum, BBC or whatever, in some way or another, even if the thread is about totally different machines. It shows increasing intellectual impotence of mr Foxy "O": he came even _here_ to insult machine not related with this thread. Truly impressive hatred to superior computers. It's on a verge of obsession.
But Alpha C will never notice it as he's an owner of C64 himself. That's very special visual and intellectual blindness typical for owners of specific electronic devices.
added on the 2009-09-19 13:25:08 by abscess abscess
\o/

spectrum sucks!! :)
added on the 2009-09-19 13:59:29 by Oswald Oswald
Not bad. No audio? :(
added on the 2009-09-20 00:25:04 by AntDude AntDude
Nice
rulez added on the 2009-09-22 02:13:30 by bitl bitl
Great!
rulez added on the 2009-09-22 02:45:18 by Buckethead Buckethead
Real good prod for a ZX81, too bad there's no audio support on the platform. That would kick even more :)
rulez added on the 2009-10-01 10:01:24 by -SP- -SP-
Yeah, cool demo.

And nice to see that abscess is being his clueless self as always :)
rulez added on the 2009-10-01 10:49:29 by britelite britelite
That's awesome !
rulez added on the 2009-10-01 11:22:25 by micdune micdune
britelite, actually abscess is mostly right, just like in this case.
and i could say many words about oswald's behaviour but actually it's really enough to state he's simply beeing stupid.
ah, whatever.
added on the 2009-10-01 11:35:43 by johny johny
johny: seems like we've been reading different posts from him, but as you said, whatever :)
added on the 2009-10-01 11:52:43 by britelite britelite
Aww, no audio support?
added on the 2009-10-03 18:47:20 by AntDude AntDude
antdude: Yes, no audio support. See my comment above about simultaneous sound and video being basically impossible...
added on the 2009-11-09 16:22:54 by gasman gasman
Time for a long overdone thumb up.
Really cool stuff :)
rulez added on the 2010-02-26 03:54:21 by shock__ shock__
great
rulez added on the 2010-06-20 19:36:32 by SiR SiR
Where was my thumb?!
rulez added on the 2010-11-13 18:32:43 by xeron xeron
stunning!
rulez added on the 2010-11-13 20:11:38 by jmagic jmagic
awesome :D
rulez added on the 2011-04-15 09:29:40 by rez rez
Yay!
rulez added on the 2011-04-15 11:36:36 by trc_wm trc_wm
.
added on the 2011-06-01 21:51:40 by ultra ultra
great
rulez added on the 2012-09-06 18:26:19 by nekomono nekomono
rulez added on the 2012-09-06 21:21:41 by p01 p01
Nice.
rulez added on the 2013-09-14 22:36:25 by CHEF-KOCH CHEF-KOCH
nice
Awesome demo! Great content for 16kb!
rulez added on the 2020-07-08 00:41:08 by spkr spkr
nice one
rulez added on the 2021-01-31 16:22:58 by Blast! Blast!

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