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I'm speechless. Totally awesome!
Music is really buggy in emulator....the rest is okay or 24Mhz...
Youtube, please
Please note that this demo is not for standart ZX Spectrum. It works on Pentagon 1024SL in Turbo mode (7MHz), uses it's 16col mode for few effects, uses TurboSound FM sound board for music, and uses new Neo General Sound card as accelerator (second Z80 @24MHz).
Shiru yes, we know. I think pouet.net needs a new platform type, something like "ZX Spectrum Enhanced", there is a lot of demos for non standard ZX Spectrum 48/128.
XOTETb :D
outstanding skillz but weak design
That tunnel looks so flat!
What bk said.
What bk said.
Textures! Девушка с веслом!
Greets to Alone Coder
Greets to Alone Coder
!!
ZX is still with us (= спасибо
oh please make some story demo with this 3d or get in touch with good director designer, otherwise it is too inconsistent. shame to waste such mad coder skillz for such an ugly prod. anyway, thumb up to alco for pushing some modern speccy tech.
I know this hardware can more impressive stuff... so keep trying :) Many cool effects anyhow, I especially liked the scene with the woman stading in front of the mill.
Dragon attacking spiny spiky thing!
It was a bit short or I expected more. Some parts do not fit (not that I usually care), e.g. some ugly rotating face. Part on the screenshot nice. Somehow I like parallax scrolling of gfx with woman. The rotating text is also cool.
thumb for the spiky dragonball
I don't know about spectrum capabilities that much but these effects look like on the edge to me. great stuff.
:)
Incredible code, meh design.
Hardcore :) At last something that shows extended capabilities of this Spectrum clone.
Effects are nice, but kinda ugly. Tentative thumb.
Sadly I don't have Pentagon SL so I had to watch the prog on emulator.
In the emulated way the music has died in a half of the demo but still the prog rulez as well as the new ZX Spectrum model.
In the emulated way the music has died in a half of the demo but still the prog rulez as well as the new ZX Spectrum model.
cool
Open new reality for old speccy!
I don't like the FM drum sounds at all, and I even stopped wondering about the full-screen effects after I read about the use of acceleration. But anyway, thumbs up for supporting such hardware :)
Some notes about the hardware:
The mainboard is plain Pentagon 1024SL 2.x of 2005 that means we still have around 80000 t-states in colour-per-pixel mode and around 100000 t-states in spectrum screen. Some effects (tunnel, rotator and falling screen) are in spectrum screen for this reason.
NeoGS runs Z80 at 24 MHz that gives us around 440000 t-states because of waits of DMA transfer. No FPGA acceleration used.
DMA transfer here means the mainboard reads NeoGS memory instead of ROM. The typical NeoGS-to-screen loop is ld d,(hl):ld e,(hl):push de.
Sorry for boring tech info, enjoy the visuals :)
The mainboard is plain Pentagon 1024SL 2.x of 2005 that means we still have around 80000 t-states in colour-per-pixel mode and around 100000 t-states in spectrum screen. Some effects (tunnel, rotator and falling screen) are in spectrum screen for this reason.
NeoGS runs Z80 at 24 MHz that gives us around 440000 t-states because of waits of DMA transfer. No FPGA acceleration used.
DMA transfer here means the mainboard reads NeoGS memory instead of ROM. The typical NeoGS-to-screen loop is ld d,(hl):ld e,(hl):push de.
Sorry for boring tech info, enjoy the visuals :)
your spectrum is better then my
How did they do the screen with a dragon, there are colours not available on ZX and 1x1 px colours and this is not interlace, something must have been changed in the architecture. In the .ini file of UnrealSpeccy emu I found a colour mixer where for example 47 = 4 + 7 (green + white = light green).
Is this a new machine Pentagon SL or is it only emulated on PC? If so, we can run Z80 at 2GHz, increase resolution to 1280x960, extend ram to 500 GB and we'll have a PC emulator. Is this fair?
Is this a new machine Pentagon SL or is it only emulated on PC? If so, we can run Z80 at 2GHz, increase resolution to 1280x960, extend ram to 500 GB and we'll have a PC emulator. Is this fair?
This demo is for the real hardware, and it was shown on the party using the real hardware too. Those 'colors not available' are simply so called 'chunks' (sort of dithering) in 16c mode, where every pixel has own color from standart ZX palette. If you'll look at the picture with zoom, you'll get the idea.
This is not for the machine called Zx Spectrum, not even for the 128, thus it should be in a new platform. Pleople might get tricked into thinking this is a ZX Spectrum demo, and open a bottle of champagne.
wood: yeah, and and todays PC isn't called a PC. Today's Amiga isn't called Amiga. Platforms developes, luckily. So think before write.
And after all, if I call you a wagtail it doesn't mean you're not human anymore (or it does?)
Also check out the proper thread in front of pouet.
As for champagne, ZX people opened it many times before, because many 128K demos are simply far better than this one.
And after all, if I call you a wagtail it doesn't mean you're not human anymore (or it does?)
Also check out the proper thread in front of pouet.
As for champagne, ZX people opened it many times before, because many 128K demos are simply far better than this one.
Yes, now I see there are 15 colours, but defined 1x1 and there's a big difference between the bright 1 and 0 in the Alone's palette. The sound chip is also different. I haven't heard about P1024SL before and I hope it will not share SAM Coupe's fate. If SAM was brought into production in 1986 instead of ZX 128 it would be a serious danger for Atari ST, and in 1990 any of the big labels didn't produce any software, it is only kept alive by enthusiasts (usually great programmers and musicians).
смотрел на эмуляторе psp, т.к. spec распаковывать из шкафа долго.. Великая вещь! must have!
nice
Delight!
Nice stuff
yay!
The first demo using NGS as a fast CPU and ngs-dma as a fast transfer to host Z80. Thumbup for being the first :)
motivation finger, you know..
is sources available? for educational purposes..
is sources available? for educational purposes..
Sources are included in the release. In fact, it runs from sources, automatically :)
Version for ATM Turbo 2 added: url
the tunnel was pure eye cancer. also for the most ridicolous dragon ever.
the tunnel was pure eye climax. also for the most apt dragon ever.
Does not work on ZX-Spectrum :(
yes
Nice little ZX Enhanced demo
I like those textured 3d
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