cTrix information 256 glöps
- general:
- level: user
- personal:
- first name: Chris
- last name: Module Tracker
- portals:
- csdb: profile
- cdcs:
- cdc #1: Formula Petscii by Performers
- 16k Windows Descent by Hork
- I loved this demo so much. Probably my fav PC prod at Revision this year. Just rewatched it on a real machine and yeah... perfect concept and idea! In 16kb too... cheers for all the hard work!
- rulezadded on the 2026-04-25 15:14:25
- demo Linux MS-Dos Windows MS-Dos/gus FreeBSD MacOSX Intel SGI/IRIX Android Raspberry Pi Aleph Null by Mindlapse [web] & Desire [web]
- Niiice!! So amazing to see a DOS prod of this caliber turn up. Love the style, vibe, banging head-nodder tune and super tight direction with solid transitions between parts. I'll be sure to crank it on hardware (DOS + GUS) next week to watch it in full VGA palette-value-clamping glory. It's such a flex to also be able to release for IRIX too - I hope a few SGI users out there get it up and running. Thanks for the greet - looking forward to more from this collab in the future!
- rulezadded on the 2025-08-03 08:50:47
- demo Amstrad Plus 3DManiaks2 by Impact
- Wow - amazing nod to Ultrasyd (that caught me off guard). Great routines, cheeky colour palettes and clean design all-round. Can't wait to watch it on the GX4000 (technically Pelruns GX - we're copying it to the multicart now!)
- rulezadded on the 2025-04-20 11:25:29
- 4k Windows Tenacity by Latitude Independent Association [web]
- Dark AF. Enjoyed this one
- rulezadded on the 2025-04-20 11:18:51
- 4k JavaScript HBC-00024: INCENDIUM by ½-bit Cheese [web] & Brainlez Coders!
- Yeah - that was super fun to watch! Great sync with the track. Cheeky colours!
- rulezadded on the 2025-04-20 11:18:10
- 4k Windows Chromatophores by Loonies [web]
- Great tune! (as always) Love the dark vibes.
- rulezadded on the 2025-04-20 11:17:11
- 4k Windows vestige by erpholia
- Amazing 4k - sound track on point and viz sharp as a tack
- rulezadded on the 2025-04-20 11:10:02
- demo Commodore 64 The Room
- Amazing first demo! Cheers Avril!
- rulezadded on the 2024-11-26 13:14:50
- demo MS-Dos Windows MS-Dos/gus emergency by Disaster Area [web]
- Cheers for the positive comments :-) It was a race to the finish with a few last minute party bugs; so this is represents the final version with a few fixes! Making music with the GUS is a dream - compared to the Amiga, I get so overwhelmed using 14 full-range channels. This track was optimised for the very first GUS Classic. 230k of samples. Whole module packs (lossless) to 119kb. All the important stuff (hats, snares, etc) is up at 44.1khz to keep it sharp.
In capturing this demo we did a special VGA 60hz build to avoid 70hz>60hz stutter. It's running from the VGA card into a top end Kramer scaler, 60hz into an Atomos Inferno onto SSD at 10bit (which does record YUV, but does RGB cross conversion in 10 bit space). We then doing a Lancos3 upscale from pixel quadrupled HD to optimally framed 4k at 60hz using the Grass Valley broadcast algos (which are very clean). We correct for RGB > YUV error in 10-bit, clamping the VGA's slightly-noisey black levels to float just above the "displayed" 0 YUV value (which is ironically converted back to RGB on your graphics card!) and set white levels to around level 1000 (10bit) because the VGA DAC actually floats around a bit (tends to overshoot early values). That gives us 24 values of white-level overshoot (according to the waveform scopes). Interestingly both cards I ran it on were slightly blue-tinted; both on video vector scope AND when RMS voltage from the VGA pins revealed this. So we left that weighting / look in the capture. It's subtle. Finally, H265 was set to max precision, took about an hour to render on a Ryzen 9 (using a software CODEC) then up to YouTube where it gets slightly downgraded with a lazy "optimised for speed" algo ... BUT, it's not bad. It's about as good as we could possibly do!
Greets to wbcbz7 for the original CRTC tweak idea. All our demos moving forwards will have a -60hz flag for this ;-) - isokadded on the 2023-12-03 03:57:48
- demo Commodore 64 Formula Petscii by Performers
- I still keep coming back to this! It's the new "opening demo" we put on at Syntax and everyone cheers. Most Aussie thing ever to grace a PETSCII character set. :-)
- rulezadded on the 2023-12-01 17:05:18
account created on the 2004-01-11 10:46:11