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• invitation Wild 99tro by Realm Of Illusion [web]
• I can finally thumb this up without spilling any beans. ;)
• rulezadded on the 2017-01-30 07:01:58
• demo Wild Don't mess with Texas by Desire [web]
• @ti99uc: Nice! I think that's the third or fourth cartridge in existence. :D
  
  Thought I'd write a little bit up on the genesis of this prod in case you guys are interested. We believe this is the first true demo/megademo on the TI99/4A, ever. Of course you have to be a little strict with the definition of a 'demo' to get that, but hey, it works for us. ;)
  
  In 2014 I was visiting a foreign (to me) city, and found a dusty boxed TI99 in a pawn shop, buried under some hi-fi gear. I didn't buy it at the time, but I looked up if there had ever been a demoscene *anything* on it, and back then found nothing. That got me thinking. About six months later I moved to the same city, visited the same pawn shop, and haggled my way into very cheap TI ownership. At that point I asked Orbitaldecay if he was interested in something on it, and he absolutely was.
  
  The original plan was a musicdisk (naturally my idea) or a simple scroller+effect+tune intro. The soundchip turned out to have a rather steep learning curve for me, and Orby & I were busy with some other prods. But the idea didn't go away. Sometime before @Party 2016, Orby got the ball rolling by getting RamonB5 interested and it was game on.
  
  In the meantime 99tro by Frog got released, as well as some scene-ish but not quite "in the scene" stuff like Happy New Year 2015 by Asmusr (^^ see credits) so it was clear a simple intro would no longer cut it.
  
  Fortunately, Orby and Ramon managed to recruit some of the best active devs on this platform, and once everyone was on board, after almost a year of hard work, here we are. Hopefully the results paid off. I personally am unbelievably proud of this thing, sure it's got a couple rough edges but for a platform first I think we set the bar at a pretty good height. Now the question is, who's gonna be the next challenger? :D
  
  Some fun facts about the platform & this prod:
  - We have the same sound & gfx chip as the MSX to work with, and a 16-bit CPU. That's awesome right? Well, the CPU is slow (3MHz) and *majorly* gimped by its 8-bit bus. It was never intended to go in this machine and it shows.
  - An unexpanded TI has 256 bytes of general purpose "fast" RAM on that 8-bit bus. It also has 16k of video RAM but you can't use that for storing miscellaneous code or data. The usual add-on floppy controller gives you another 32k of *horrendously slow* RAM, and we ended up having to require that. It's there, it helps, but we still tried to avoid it as much as possible.
  - The TI's built-in BASIC is slow and useless, and there's *no* ability to run inline assembly or compiled programs from disk. The assembler is supplied on a cartridge and requires the 32k RAM expansion. You can also get extended BASIC on a cartridge that is much better.
  - You can run our demo direct from its own cartridge, or from disk using the "editor/assembler" cart, *or* from disk using an extended BASIC cart. That required three different loaders, but the choice is yours.
  - Of the three main emulators that are around for this thing, two of them - Classic99 and JS99er - were made by members of the demo dev team, Tursi and Asmusr respectively. They have both since been updated to run all the scanline effects & general hackery that we needed to make this thing work, so go ahead and emulate. B)
• isokadded on the 2017-01-30 06:45:39
• demo Wild Don't mess with Texas by Desire [web]
• Thanks for the kind words all! This was a long time in coming but we are SUPER happy with how it came out. Working on this machine was certainly a challenge but our coders can tell you more about that. The fantastic reception we got when it was presented at the party made it all worthwhile.
  
  
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  platform, efforts.
  Please replace PC emulator video with real machine, if possible.

  
  
  Yeah we couldn't get a video capture device to sync to the TI properly and ran out of time. The MAME emulation is "perfect" so the current one is a good reference video, but a hardware cap would be awesome.
• isokadded on the 2017-01-29 16:45:32
• demo BK-0010/11M e-Bun. ЭлектроБулка by Excess Team
• Neat demo! The soundtrack works well IMHO even if it is a cover. Looks & sounds great.
  
  Does this thing use common video & sound chips (or clones), or is the architecture all its own?
• rulezadded on the 2017-01-26 01:33:41
• demo MacOSX PPC MacOSX Intel PLEASE DON'T by Calodox
• Music!
  Good looking too, not much to it though.
• rulezadded on the 2017-01-09 23:37:36
• demo Amiga AGA Neonsky by Ephidrena
• That was nice! Loved the style & atmosphere, and of course the music.
• rulezadded on the 2016-12-08 03:47:29
• demotool Windows Buzz
• Er, whut? Created by a member of a well-known group, released under the group's name into the community as a direct successor to Impulse Tracker & FT2, and many of the early plugin devs & users were prominent sceners too. If there's a way to make a tracker more scene-y I'd love to hear it.
• isokadded on the 2016-12-07 11:49:04
• slideshow Atari ST the 80's by STratosphere
• Nice MOD.Telephone cover. :) Some awesome art here too.
• rulezadded on the 2016-12-07 02:26:45
• demotool Windows Buzz
• Can't believe this wasn't on here yet. Absolutely brilliant 3rd gen tracker & one of the first to blur the line between trackers & DAWs. I made so much music with this, some of it was even good.
• rulezadded on the 2016-12-06 22:14:48
• game Amstrad CPC Pinball Dreams Amstrad CPC (Preview) by Batman Group
• OMG.
  HOW IS THIS.
• rulezadded on the 2016-11-18 07:48:13