djh0ffman information 717 glöps
- musicdisk Amiga OCS/ECS Tactical Transmissions by Pattern Syndicate
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Stompin' stuff, I really enjoyed this musicdisk. Excellent tunes, excellent mix!
(Also the exe crashes at launch on Kickstart 3.2.2. Works fine on KS 3.1. A1200+TF1260)
I'm not surprised, it was a super hacky job! I'll wrap-up a WHDLoad soon enough. - isokadded on the 2024-10-09 13:31:34
- demo Amiga OCS/ECS Inside the Machine by Desire [web]
- thumage!
- rulezadded on the 2024-10-08 23:50:00
- demo Amiga OCS/ECS Inside the Machine by Desire [web]
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Really enjoyed this one. It has some of the best movetables on Amiga 500 config. I esp. liked the horizontal scrolling one with the guy walking in front.
(demo works everytime on my 1 MB Chip Amiga 600 with real diskdrive, three different kickstarts on 68000 and 68020. Maybe a 512/512-related problem then?)
We're working on it! ;) I'm helping out the chaps to determine what's going on as I seem to have the perfect setup to kill the trackloader before the demo even starts!. This, hamazing final and even lossos new demo are all affected.
Anyway, fantastic demo. Lovely graphics, coherant, solid uplifting soundtrack, awesome effects. Well done chaps, you've landed a banger. - isokadded on the 2024-10-08 23:49:45
- musicdisk Amiga OCS/ECS Tactical Transmissions by Pattern Syndicate
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Been listening to it over and over again over the last few days, really cool. One question. Is there a possibility, to choose one of the songs directly with a key, in this musicdisk?
I had planned to try and incorporate some more flexible features like this but it's rather tricky with all the moving parts and then I ram out of time. Maybe next time but until then there is always the included mod files? - isokadded on the 2024-10-08 08:13:37
- musicdisk Amiga OCS/ECS Tactical Transmissions by Pattern Syndicate
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(Funny, E8 has been used to sync tons of stuff; I think I first saw it in 9 Fingers music data, although it had to be used before that...)
The reason E8 is used is ProTracker only runs the E commands on the first tick of the line where as the majority of the other commands run on all the other ticks. - isokadded on the 2024-10-07 21:54:40
- musicdisk Amiga OCS/ECS Tactical Transmissions by Pattern Syndicate
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@djh0ffman Can you clarify "module mixing" as written the in .NFO?
Like all good demoscene productions it's all smoke and mirrors.
The truth is the music is all driven from a fairly standard ProTracker replay source. To make the mix, the ordering is first determined using my standard DJ setup, quick and easy way to get a feel for what tunes work well together. From there the start / end of each module is then manually edited to make them sound like they are being mixed together by a DJ. When a mix starts or ends, the unused 8 command is added to the pattern to flag these points.
The tooling then comes into play to do the heavy lifting. All the modules are merged into one gigantic ProTracker module with unlimited patterns and a max of 255 samples. Everything is distilled into component parts, patterns are deduped and individually compressed and a list of unique samples and instrument links is produced. There is then a pass over the whole module to determine the first and last pattern a sample is needed. They then get put through a memory allocation system and we spit out just a list of when and where a sample needs to be loaded.
The waveforms was an interesting one as it seems to really fool the viewer / listener into thinking we're mixing two whole tunes together. Based on the data above we push out a separate module for each waveform, except they are checked against the original mods and removes any samples that don't belong to it. Those mods are then pushed through openmpt command line player to produce a wav file and subsequently squashed down to a set of 4bit values to actual draw them. I was particularly happy that we managed to automate this becuase the first test mix I did I had to do all of that editing by hand.
There was never an intention to fool the viewer into thinking we were software mixing, I'd have never enteratined the idea anyway because of the resource reqs and reduction in sound quality. It just looks this way because this was the design / vision we had for it from the begining.
If you want some fun, throw it into coppenheimer and take a look. My personal favourite is watching the background proc gen rendering getting paused to load samples :) - isokadded on the 2024-10-07 19:49:43
- musicdisk Amiga OCS/ECS Tactical Transmissions by Pattern Syndicate
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I find it funny, and inevitable, that the coders had to finally write a full software modplayer to do the mixing -- welcome to the PC scene (kidding!).
Guess again 😉 - isokadded on the 2024-10-06 20:52:32
- demo Amiga OCS/ECS Konrad Zuses Plankalkül by The Electronic Knights
- Effects are cool but the glitches in the soundtrack just seem out of place and disconnected from what's happening on screen. Overall a challenging watch, but I guess that's the idea.
- isokadded on the 2024-08-22 02:03:42
- demotool Amiga OCS/ECS Imploder 4.0
- TTE BRB
- rulezadded on the 2024-07-18 20:55:02
- 32k Acorn ArchieKlang Announcetro by bitshifters collective [web] & Alcatraz [web] & Torment [web]
- Lovely tune, brilliant visualiser. Love the fact that the slowest pre-calc bar is the vector font renderer.
- rulezadded on the 2024-06-18 10:48:19
account created on the 2010-09-06 15:01:30