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• 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
• demo Gameboy Color It Came from Planet Zilog by Phantasy
• This was my favorite (non-Hornet) demo in the compo. Tons of polish and 1-frame effects. Really excellent work!
• rulezadded on the 2015-04-07 02:40:34
• demo MS-Dos 8088 MPH by Hornet [web] & CRTC & Desire [web]
• Guys, thanks for all the kind words -- it really means a lot to reenigne, VileR, Scali, and myself. We worked on the code for 6 months together, but separately it was roughly 100 man-years of appreciation and deep research into the capabilities of the machine and the video card over the past three decades. You grow up with this stuff and it leaves a deep impression on you.
  
  It was also a deep honor to compete against such very strong entries in the compo, which you can see in the results -- it was practically a 4-way tie! If you haven't checked out the other three, please do so, they're great (although I don't know why Oxyron complained about only one disk... ever heard of compression?)
  
  Technical blogs are forthcoming, but until then, here's some quick answers:
  
  yzi: If you have real 4.77MHz 8088 and RGB, the demo will run but without correct colors, so you can still enjoy it somewhat. The kefrens bars, moire/interference, and end credits parts look nearly identical to composite out.
  
  jmph: No dithering, no pageflipping, real 1024 colors from the display over composite output. VileR's core discovery, refined by reenigne to have double the colors.
  
  introspec: Have already done mega research on ZX Spectrum beeper but you can't use 1-bit multi-chan engines as background music; they take up too much CPU time. Besides, reenigne came up with something much better than ZX Spectrum 1-bit engines, which you can hear in the end credits: It is a 16KHz 4-channel protracker chiptune player. It takes up 99.99% of CPU which is why the end credits are fairly simple.
  
  Baudserver: We plan to update our blogs in the next few days :) I'll link to mine here when it's done.
  
  F-Cycles: No flicker; 1024c mode is stable.
  
  drzeissler: Sorry, make your own :-) 286+EGA is too "powerful" for us.
  
  There may or may not be a final version. There are visual bugs in the party version which you can spot viewing the video multiple times (they're all my fault, actually :-), but we're fairly tired and burnt out, as is to be expected.
• isokadded on the 2015-04-07 01:33:25
• demo Amiga AGA Human Traffic by Ghostown & Loonies [web]
• Just watched this a second time and it's just as good. I love demos that perfectly meld graphics, code, music, and design to convey a feeling, and Human Traffic just excels.
• isokadded on the 2015-03-31 02:33:48
• 64k MS-Dos GP-01 by Genesis Project [web]
• Indeed!
• rulezadded on the 2015-03-30 01:43:02
• 4k bbstro MS-Dos A.C.E. BBS (6a) by NoooN
• Definitely done by Karl/Nooon (stepped through the code in an emulator and his name comes up after the decryption phase).
• rulezadded on the 2015-03-01 01:58:44
• 512b game MS-Dos BootChess by Red Sector Inc. [web]
• Fantastic achievement. Wish it would run on 8086 (uses pusha/popa), but that is a minor quibble. Major thumbs up.
• rulezadded on the 2015-01-29 06:07:06
• 32k Commodore PET No Pets Allowed by Orb [web]
• Props for the new video mode, props for the audio driver, the effects... everything. Damned impressive.
• rulezadded on the 2015-01-27 17:12:26