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• 256b MS-Dos Immediate railways by Digimind
• I'm looking at the disassembly and I just DO NOT PARSE. WTF. No floating point even. Hell, there's only one instruction that requires 386 -- with a few more bytes it would run (SLOWLY) on 8088. WTF. WTF.
  
  Hope we see commented source for this someday.
• rulezadded on the 2015-09-25 05:30:44
• 64k Amiga AGA Gift by Potion
• How did I not know about this until now? This is wildly, insanely impressive for 64K on Amiga!
• rulezadded on the 2015-09-24 04:48:32
• demo MS-Dos Crystal Dream 2 by Triton
• CD was an inspiration from very early on. VINT stars that look amazing; planar mode for extra speed using VGA color registers to hide that fact; electro-shoegazer music in the first act. I love this demo more than I can articulate.
• rulezadded on the 2015-08-18 01:17:34
• demo Amiga OCS/ECS Planet Rocklobster by Oxyron [web]
• The HAM6 stuff was really worthy to compete against, was an honor!
  
  Thanks for the source and write-up. Hopefully others will follow suit.
• isokadded on the 2015-04-25 20:12:06
• demo MS-Dos 8088 MPH by Hornet [web] & CRTC & Desire [web]
• Effect wasn't really for vector-lovers, but rather an exercise in how to show large polygons while dealing with the abysmally slow memory speed of CGA.
  
  If animation-presented-as-effect equals thumb down from you, then I guess you thumb down Planet Rocklobster as well? Oh well, I think there were plenty of cool parts in both demos that had nothing to do with animation.
• isokadded on the 2015-04-25 01:32:24
• demo Amiga OCS/ECS 28kbs
• Very nice as always. But I have some questions:
  
  
  Quote:

  From a 4k dictionary, its possible to gain 4088 8 byte unique sample data. combined with one of 16 ampitudes, this gives 15x4088+zero amplitude=61321 8 byte pieces that are used to recreate the audio.

  
  
  Wouldn't it be better quality to just generate a 64K codebook, instead of a 4K codebook * 16 permutations?
• isokadded on the 2015-04-22 04:00:53
• demo MS-Dos 8088 MPH by Hornet [web] & CRTC & Desire [web]
• Quote:

  Which github repo would this be? =)

  
  
  Why, monotone of course.
• isokadded on the 2015-04-15 06:17:23
• demo MS-Dos 8088 MPH by Hornet [web] & CRTC & Desire [web]
• Oh! Sure, one sec... Ok, check the github repo for SWINGIN1.MON (first tune, Phoenix) and NO_ROADS.MON (second looping tune, virt).
  
  You may be tempted to listen to them in Adlib mode so you can hear all channels properly, however that wasn't how they were composed. virt did that and wrote me this:
  
  
  Quote:

  I just realized I can listen to my own track in Adlib mode too, WOW THAT'S WEEEEEIRD, I actually prefer it monophonic because hearing the notes in a "plain" polyphonic arrangement takes away the rhythmic arp tricks like snare fills, guitar riffs, tremolo strings in the "orchestra" sections, etc.
  
  Man, they should teach monophonic beeper composition in college, this might actually be tied with "Your only sample is a hihat cymbal" compos for most challenging way to make listenable music, haha.

• isokadded on the 2015-04-14 05:09:22
• demo MS-Dos 8088 MPH by Hornet [web] & CRTC & Desire [web]
• Quote:

  Many thanks to the authors for this, in my opinion, your write-ups added a whole new dimension to the demo.

  
  
  Well, we're trying to get more people to make oldskool pc demos :-)
  
  While there are a ton of limits for this platform, the most annoying one IMO is lack of a decent sound device. And it's not as simple as "just add an Adlib" because 1. that likely wouldn't qualify for a pure oldskool compo if we did, and 2. Adlib writes are quite slow; updating FM music @ 60Hz can take upwards of half the raster time :-O so that's right out. Simpler devices like the C/MS (game blaster) don't take as much time to control, but those are even harder to find than Adlib/SB.
  
  BTW I'd just like to say it has been an honor getting thumbs from some of my long-term scene heroes in this and other threads. Makes teenage Trixter extremely happy :-D
• isokadded on the 2015-04-12 23:24:27
• demo MS-Dos 8088 MPH by Hornet [web] & CRTC & Desire [web]
• Technical details are online. This is only my perspective, though; others may write more detailed parts of their various contributions.
• isokadded on the 2015-04-08 05:57:17