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rulez added on the 2023-04-09 02:26:54 by wiRe
Cool
nice =)
Unfortunately this demo was not shown at the Revision in its whole entirety. The enormous size of 256B can be well explained if the fact is known that this demo also plays music! And not only MIDI! Actually it's playing some 8 kHz ByteBeat through any COVOX/Disney LPTDAC, if properly installed to LPT1. Due to the compo rules it was denied to record this (no sound on intros running on FreeDOS machine). But the updated description containing this useful info was also not shown to the audience. Hope the voters are still able to judge fairly. Plz!
Nice one.
it has such a great sound!
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nice =)
thnx HellMood! love your work and this means something to me! :)
the intro uses some (hopefully) new technique I call setting up a 'literal pool'. just using 3 bytes to initialize some literals on the stack to have plenty of values to choose from makes it almost unnecessary to step through the opcodes when looking for the best fitting constant. plz tell me I was the first one in finding this ;)
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the intro uses some (hopefully) new technique I call setting up a 'literal pool'. just using 3 bytes to initialize some literals on the stack
L:
push cx
loop L
this? nice trick ;)
Nice!
Very cool landscapes in 256b
Nice XORy landscapy
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it has such a great sound!
thnx! actually I am quite proud how this works and was very sad that we wasn't able to show this to the Revision audience on the big screen, getting the subs rattling ;)
the implemented bytebeat "synth" eats up quite some space (including 14B song data). its based on 7 sequencer patterns running at different speeds, why it was possible to get it's size reduced to this small amount while still retaining a (relatively) wide range of variances in the tune.
Excellent!
I love this intro! Will you do a writeup of your tricks (maybe for sizecoding.org)?
It's a pity it was shown without sound. I know how it feels to have it shown in an unintended form.
It's a pity it was shown without sound. I know how it feels to have it shown in an unintended form.
Nice one!
Forgotten thumbs
Nice melody, gives the whole thing a much better vibe ! Yeah, our old sizecoding problem...FreeDOS=fast/no sound, DOSBox=slow/sound, it's a pity...
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Nice melody, gives the whole thing a much better vibe ! Yeah, our old sizecoding problem...FreeDOS=fast/no sound, DOSBox=slow/sound, it's a pity...
Yes, this was really not what I expected, since I had written my intro for real old PC hardware (was increasing the pixel count up to the limit of a 3 GHz PC). Was surprised that this is not accepted by the compo rulez in the end. Wonder what the AMIGA ppl would think, if their demos can only be present inside an emulator and not recorded from true hardware!? Hope this rulez will be reconsidered and DosBOX remains not the standard in the future, but true historical hardware will be instead.
By the way: DosBOX seems able to run this intro faster (increasing cycles even beyond max), but then it seems there is some bug with the Disney/Covox and sound starts stuttering. You see: compo limits depend on the current version and bugfixes of DosBOX. Should I submit a DosBOX bugfix now or wait for better rulez? :)
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I love this intro! Will you do a writeup of your tricks (maybe for sizecoding.org)?
It's a pity it was shown without sound. I know how it feels to have it shown in an unintended form.
sure, plan to document some parts at least, once I find the time. for example the technique of initializing a literal pool can be reused by other products too and should make a nice tutorial on sizecoding.org. this page is some really nice entry point which adds a lot to the demo scene!
Nice
Great
Looks and sounds pretty neat yet I feel there is a lot more than meet the eye, and ear.
Looking forward to your next prods.
Looking forward to your next prods.
Great job in 256B!
the effect is a bit ugly, but the sound is cool
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the effect is a bit ugly, but the sound is cool
True. Actually the idea of applying a XOR-texture was technically more challenging but didn't looked as nice as some simple gouraud shaded terrain. Also noticed this and done a new prod (https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=94730), which uses the same core idea but should look much better using a customized palette based upon some simple black-red-white color-gradient. And it fits only 248 bytes this time. Though, this is not expected to be the absolute minimum, if time would not matter. And this time it was presented with sound at the party! <3
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