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Rhino information 369 glöps

• general:
• level: user
• personal:
• first name: Alejandro
• last name: del Campo
• cdcs:
• cdc #1: Enigma by Phenomena
• cdc #2: Mental Hangover by Scoopex [web]
• cdc #3: Blood Sugar Rises by AttentionWhore

• intro Amiga OCS/ECS Still Snacking by Batman Group & Capsule
• Quote:

  Instead of using AI (which is not a bad option at all, even if I would have preferred some graphics by Mac/BG) I wonder if, in the next one, Rhino will not make up as The Joker and a selfie will be done to use it as a texture.

  
  Hehe good idea, I'll write it down for next time.
  
  Criticisms about the use of AI, artistic criteria, etc... are welcome, of course. But that was not what was important for us in this prod. In the readme we make it clear: "...the only important thing here is to be the first breaking records.". Context is always important because if you don't know it, you can evaluate a 64-byte intro as if it were a regular demo.
  
  Hannibal also explains the context in the comments of And One Up The Sleeve2: "I wanted to get this out there as soon as it was ready, as I was sure multiple people were inspired by Blueberry's work and trying to beat it - and Gigabates' post confirmed my suspicion."
  
  
  Quote:

  By the way, kudos for taking Estrayk out of his comfort zone!

  
  I just asked Estrayk if he was able to make a good sounding music with only 2 channels, even if the mod size reaches 250kb or more, and he said yes, the rest is history... If his answer had been different, maybe I would have explored other alternatives, or not. :)
• isokadded on the 2025-07-27 09:57:28
• intro Amiga OCS/ECS Still Snacking by Batman Group & Capsule
• Quote:

  Theisintro sucks!
  The texture is made with AI, the music uses only two channels with no effects whatsoever. This intro seems more like an excuse to come here and brag about a 'record' like a spoiled teenager.
  Listen Rhino: we’ve already passed that age, you should evolve personally because you’re really ridiculous.
  
  Yes, Hannibal still in the lead for me. You're just a spoiled brat playing dirty.

  
  xD
• isokadded on the 2025-07-27 00:08:59
• intro Amiga OCS/ECS Still Snacking by Batman Group & Capsule
• Quote:

  I mainly care about breaking assumptions in ways that inspire other people to explore new areas, as has happened successfully twice now.
  
  I don't hope this entry into the fight inspires people to make demos without sound.

  
  Ok, you keep breaking the assumption that the code should be compatible to inspire people to do incompatible things, or keep breaking the assumption that we should take these challenges with sportsmanship to inspire people to kick like children in defeat, while I just break records :)
• isokadded on the 2025-07-26 18:41:53
• intro Amiga OCS/ECS Still Snacking by Batman Group & Capsule
• Quote:

  Hannibal still in the lead. :)

  
  Hehe, good try but I'm sorry, it's not Blueberry who decides who is in the lead, but the number of columns in the rotozoom. :)
  
  
  Quote:

  Instead of meeting that challenge and beating previous records, Rhino decided to tackle a different, easier problem.

  
  XD It is funny, I hope you're joking and not taking your defeats so badly bc you are talking about yourself here: Instead of meeting the original copperchunky challenge and beating previous records, you decided to tackle a different, easier problem (as the speed and number of records after yours have shown) making your code incompatible :)
  
  Anyway, In demoscene you don't win records with words, if you can do it with more columns at full dma music, just show it in a demo :D
• isokadded on the 2025-07-26 16:02:54
• intro Amiga OCS/ECS Still Snacking by Batman Group & Capsule
• Quote:

  I wonder why it's repeating the same movement over and over...
  

  
  Well, I think there are several reasons why I did it this way:
  
  1. This is done in a few days without worrying about small details.
  
  2. At such a low resolution, constant rotation on a fixed axis make the movement smoother than if you try to make complex movements involving translations, etc...
  
  3. It is a classic trick to speed up a little more the rotozoom by precalculating the X and Y offsets of each frame (64 X offsets + 68 Y offsets). It's a brief pre-calculation of about 100kb of data that happens at the beginning, during the fraction of a second with the colour bars. It is true that I could have made it 4 times bigger to be less repetitive, as there is enough free memory for it, but the important thing is that it allows me to add about one of the 11 rows by which this rotozoom outperforms yours. (The other 10 extra rows are due to an old Amiga hardware trick that even Photon knows about. Feel free to ask if you can't find it after examining the code :)
• isokadded on the 2025-07-24 20:58:05
• intro Amiga OCS/ECS Still Snacking by Batman Group & Capsule
• That question is best answered with another question: What is the widest 4x4 RGB rotozoom?
• isokadded on the 2025-07-24 12:12:00
• intro Amiga OCS/ECS Still Snacking by Batman Group & Capsule
• A quick response to those who challenged the Joker :)
• isokadded on the 2025-07-24 11:22:33
• intro Amiga OCS/ECS ...And One Up The Sleeve by Lemon.
• @Hannibal I haven't looked at your code to see the technique you use, but if it's based on a way to avoid the ‘anti-aliasing’ of HAM, then the width challenge doesn't make sense anymore because with this technique you could make it any width, including the maximum overscan width? Or is there some limitation why you couldn't make it wider than 80 columns?
• isokadded on the 2025-07-20 13:47:52
• intro Amiga OCS/ECS ...And One Up The Sleeve by Lemon.
• This is what happens when you remove the “copperchunky” restriction on this challenge xD
• rulezadded on the 2025-07-19 13:26:47
• demopack diskmag Amiga AGA Amiga OCS/ECS Speed issue #67 by Nah-Kolor [web]
• Thanks!
• rulezadded on the 2025-07-11 15:22:29