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• demo TI-8x (68k) Der Rechner by NPLI
• I know the screen can be (mostly) restored by using F5 and e.g. MODE - but still :)
  For the next demo (or a final version of this one):
  * the GCC4TI SAVE_SCREEN support occurs on the ~15 KB stack, ~13 KB of which are usable in user programs;
  * even if you had to save the screen in the heap, this program does not come close to exhausting all available RAM;
  * when both stack and heap are really tight, saving/restoring is moot with the small HSR code I mentioned earlier.
  
  TIEmu does emulate sound if you activate the appropriate mode, it defaults to listening for files as it's clearly a more common use case than emulating sound. But as you mentioned (I had seen the note in the nfo), grayscale looks ugly in TIEmu. Grayscale looks better in the old VTI, but that has no kind of accurate sound emulation.
  
  Besides watching the video, I could run the code on my real TI-68k calculators, I have enough of those ^^
  
  Finally, I don't recognize your nickname... do you attend the open development community's message boards (Omnimaga, Cemetech, TI-Planet) ? If you don't, you should :)
• isokadded on the 2013-08-06 07:41:37
• demo TI-8x (68k) Der Rechner by NPLI
• Amusing to see TI-68k demos in this day and age :)
  Motivational thumb for the effort. You should keep making more demos for that platform ;)
  
  Several ideas for improvement of this particular demo:
  * either saving the contents of the screen at the beginning of the program and restoring them at the end (< 50 bytes, see the startup code of the GCC4TI library), or redrawing them entirely through the Home Screen Restore method (by Greg Dietsche, less than 120 bytes) - failure to do either is considered user-unfriendly ;)
  * alleviating the difficulty of seeing wireframe models, mentioned by Luis above, by temporarily changing the contrast;
  * using a less repetitive music with more chans ?
  * using double-buffering and synchronization with the LCD refresh, in case you haven't already ? There's no obvious tearing in the video, but in TIEmu, most programs don't flicker the way this one does in some parts. TIEmu's grayscale emulation is known to be both complicated and imperfect, but still.
• rulezadded on the 2013-08-05 21:22:14
• 4k Windows elevated by Rgba [web] & TBC
• Although I knew about the concept of demo-making since about ten years ago, this impressive 4K demo is the one that led me to dig into watching demos.
  I'm convinced that the demoscene will still be talking about Elevated as a milestone for 4K demos, five or ten years from now !
• rulezadded on the 2010-12-12 10:08:25