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• general:
• level: user
• personal:
• first name: Timm S.
• last name: Mueller
• cdcs:
• cdc #1: Sound Vision by Reflect
• cdc #2: Vector Exterminator by Shining
• cdc #3: Makt by Spaceballs [web]
• cdc #4: HAM Eager by Platon

• demo Amiga OCS/ECS TM2: Attack of the Ego Bots by Zymosis
• Master 4gentE, I did as you told and watched again. I really tried to hate it this time, but what can I say, I've already thumbed it up and cannot do this again. It still rocks and is super consistent on all levels, the pacing is just perfect, and I find the music especially supportive and fitting.
  In experiments with a tester I've heard it was too fast and you couldn't immerse enough and the texts were hard to read. Greippi on the other hand: Faster, faster, comics are pulp, you're not watching them more closely than absolutely needed. So this is somewhere in the middle.
  So this stuff here seems to be according to my taste and possibilities. Ask me again in ~five years when the maker bias has worn off...
• isokadded on the 2024-04-14 11:12:43
• demo Amiga OCS/ECS TM2: Attack of the Ego Bots by Zymosis
• Screen resolution is 640x480. Display and conversion tech is basically as described here. The converter knows some new tricks compared to the 2016 version, and we use a new image codec and decompressor.
  The main program is basically an anim player - panels are constantly loaded and (in-place) decompressed into a ring buffer, from where the main program yanks them into the visible area, enriching things with a bubble and text engine.
  The CPU almost grinds to a halt in lines where the full picture is visible, so the display window is constantly reconfigured to save DMA. We start as quickly as possible with the full 640x480 title pic, after that the timing is adjusted for just barely enough image material coming in. Finally, Krill's decompressor is so fast that it "runs away" from the show, but only towards the end - you'll notice that the disk motor stops when the load/decrunch thread ends, while the remaining material is still pulled from the buffer.
• isokadded on the 2024-04-14 03:00:12
• demo Amiga OCS/ECS TM2: Attack of the Ego Bots by Zymosis
• 4gentE, it poses the question of why someone would be quitting the scene because of some production on some (other) platform.
  Is it because it's so bad? I doubt it. Because in demoscene the answer to this has always been to make a better production. Yes I think it's well made, good craftmanship. You said it was "objectively" bad. So we have objectively a disagreement here. Of course it's a logical possibility that most people see that it's bad, and we the makers are so deeply buried in predispositions, bad taste or bad craftmanship that we cannot acknowledge this. Help us!
• isokadded on the 2024-04-13 11:50:35
• demo Amiga OCS/ECS TM2: Attack of the Ego Bots by Zymosis
• I was just wondering in how far an Amiga slideshow keeps you from making stuff on the platforms of your choice.
  Noby doesn't want to go to parties and participate in demoscene anymore - because of said production. Sensenstahl agrees. Weird, but glad if we could help with your problems.
  Maybe AI was so obvious to us that we lost track of how obvious it was to some. Of course some didn't notice it, because it was so well made! But that would be fun also, so thumb it down for cheating or whatever reasons, or up, or not, or whatever. But quitting? Is this the maximum penalty? :-)
  IIRC there was moderate applause at the party and even the ranking was in line with our expectations. So what happened after that, in some internet circles? Just a theory: I think a better recommendation than quitting demoscene would be to quit self-reinforcing circles of groupthink. :-)
  Demoscene is so much fun if you look at it in the right way. :-)
• isokadded on the 2024-04-13 10:54:04
• demo Amiga OCS/ECS TM2: Attack of the Ego Bots by Zymosis
• Quote:

  or proper lettering

  
  Krill, thank you, oh thank you, thank you.
  
  Could you please elaborate - for me and the assembled crowd of barbarians here - on what you deem improper about the text setting?
  
  Lack of kerning? Subpixel? Not enough midtones?
  
  We are not blitting bobs around here like a vectorball routine.
  
  I said in the middle of the process that I think it would be nice to have character variants,
  with the case in point: the case of capital and small I.
  This is where this matters, elsewhere not so much.
  
  And because this idea didn't make it into the product, now this is somehow not proper?
• isokadded on the 2024-04-12 13:12:15
• demo Amiga OCS/ECS TM2: Attack of the Ego Bots by Zymosis
• Photon trolling 7/10, hurts good! kb 4/10
• isokadded on the 2024-04-12 11:39:52
• musicdisk Amiga OCS/ECS Mel O Dee’s 2 by Resistance [web]
• What sets it apart for a musicdisk is the amount of lush gfx.
  We tried it in our musicdisk test labs for usability and found it to be good.
• rulezadded on the 2024-04-10 00:30:15
• demo Amiga OCS/ECS Backslide to Arcanum by Cosmic Orbs [web]
• dan: that's why we knew it would be possible. but this here is the demoscene execution, and it's better :-)
• isokadded on the 2024-04-09 17:08:25
• demo Amiga OCS/ECS Backslide to Arcanum by Cosmic Orbs [web]
• A demo built as a pedestal for the effect we all knew was possible and we were waiting for for so long!
  And when it's finally pulled off, it's with so much grandeur and nice details, high precision, and smooth as silk, it's even better than we could hope for. The other guys working on this: If you wait too long... somebody's gotta do it :-)
  Thanks so much!
• rulezadded on the 2024-04-09 16:42:12
• demo Amiga OCS/ECS As good as new by Offence [web]
• Massive summoning of circular structures - Nosferatu must be right around the corner! Nicely laid back and slightly melancholic moods in here.
• rulezadded on the 2024-04-09 16:32:40