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Beam Racer by JAC! [web]
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Slow paced, but the moving raster bars were neat
Nice work, keep it up!
Welcome to the world of VCS coding!
me likes!! AATTAAAARRRIIIIIIIII
@ggn: The demo was designed as NTSC version which runs 20% faster with respect to the effects and has a much better flow. But after 3 hours of recoding and encoding them team said. "Oh, it 60 Hz, the beam is 50 Hz". So I had to create the somewhat slower version at the party. Anyway I'll keep faster pace next time ;-)
Cool!
Decent stuff on really vintage hardware
Nice stuff JAC!, thanks for the greetings :)
Agree with pigpen. It was really a limited machine.
cool! 1st A2600 demo stuff from You JAC!, but rulez big time :)
it was nice! enjoyed talking with you as well :)
very nice for the platform
It's a first prod compared with the stuff from Trilobyte, but still a good one. And yes, getting anything at all out of this pre-1980 platform is an achievement.
Nice with more VCS stuff :)
Download archive updated with V1.1 which has faster scrolls and supports the RESET button to restart the demo at any time so you don't have to pull the power switch.
Also video links with proper frame rate added. Thanks to TMC for the live footage. It was the first time I saw one of my releases on a big screen ;-)
Also video links with proper frame rate added. Thanks to TMC for the live footage. It was the first time I saw one of my releases on a big screen ;-)
Not much to see, but what's shown is rock solid. Looking forward to more stuff from you :)
OK
Getting anything at all out of the VCS is a challenge, so pretty good for a first prod. The music is a bit repetitive though.
Btw, why are you designing for NTSC in Europe? :)
Btw, why are you designing for NTSC in Europe? :)
@Tjoppen: The people who tested the thing for me on the real machine were in the US and the tune was originally designed for 60Hz. Also NTSC has the full 128 colors palette which looks better in case of the raster bars. At last if it runs fast enough on NTSC it is easy to port to PAL.
I created the PAL version only because SDW mentioned that he'd like to run it on his real machine and because mine is PAL, too. Fortunately I created the PAL version the day before Revision because it turned out that though all PCs and things were 50Hz, the main beamer was 60Hz.
I created the PAL version only because SDW mentioned that he'd like to run it on his real machine and because mine is PAL, too. Fortunately I created the PAL version the day before Revision because it turned out that though all PCs and things were 50Hz, the main beamer was 60Hz.
phat phat :)
Amiga!
Not great, but cool
Thanks to the pals at AtariAge, I finally managed to fix the VBLANK and the variables scanlines bug, so it should run now properly on all real TVs as well and not only on mine. Here is the V1.2 download and also the source.
kool.
ok
A demo named after the great book that got me into VCS coding? Cool!
Nice tune, and although there's not much to see and the colors are...well...ah... anyway, I like the bars and how you stacked three effects on top of each other per scanline. :)
Nice tune, and although there's not much to see and the colors are...well...ah... anyway, I like the bars and how you stacked three effects on top of each other per scanline. :)
that is neat :) nice sound!
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Here some info since most of probably were born after this machine ;-)
Video will follow soon.