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Arsantica by Desire [web]
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Finally some gfx from Premium and not just ace music! And ALien pheew. Great stuff.
Tested on space panda's .. Keep on going Desire!
Yes.
💙~
Yesterday we presented our latest demo for 130XE. Here is a video of the competition version only as I will release final next couple of days. I simply forgot the credits scroller in the end
Code: heaven
Gfx: alien, bokanoid, jac, lowlife, premium, no-xs
Msx: bewu, triace
Tools used:
wudsn, mads, rmt, g2f, xboot128 by xxl, turbo basic XL
Would be a nice game
Code: heaven
Gfx: alien, bokanoid, jac, lowlife, premium, no-xs
Msx: bewu, triace
Tools used:
wudsn, mads, rmt, g2f, xboot128 by xxl, turbo basic XL
Would be a nice game
Superb, loved to see how this grow over time.
And here YouTube http://youtu.be/qE-UrcmsbeU
great music the solo sometimes sounds so fat its ammazing. phat code & gfx aswell.
My favourite from the compo. Some scene switches are kind of weird, but the design is great.
they are weird because the music stops when loading the next part .. next time i will draw less gfx so Heaven has more room for code =)
@oswald thx. I had no transitions and the used loader does not allow music while loading... ;) but sequel planned. You know what we are discussing at formatwar.net ;)
Interesting that the realtime radial fire is the most advanced part ;)
Interesting that the realtime radial fire is the most advanced part ;)
cool
Yeah.... :)
Yeah. It looks unfinished, but it's the 1st time to see an A8 Demo that uses the right features of the A8 for creating working visual FX. Even POKEY usage is better than average. It's in the combination. Thanks.
great!!
http://youtu.be/eY_YsoR11d8 with better encoding and having all voices in the last part msx.
I simply love the graphics, all of them and the ideas. "If it's not 4 colors, it's not oldschool". I don't think any Atari 8-bit demo had so many pixel graphics included. Looking forward to the final! And no, this is no self-vote as Heaven only used a font I did in 1989. And hopefull it will no longer be needed in the final :-)
Congratlations!
Oh yes... Arsantica... that's south of the south polar circle, right..? ;)
Excellent graphics put to good use... I have a thing for space demos :)
Excellent graphics put to good use... I have a thing for space demos :)
Thank you.
Great job Heaven! :)
nice music, but nothing interesting around fxes.
Great stuff! I love it!
This? Boring...
Thumb up for the storyline and for capturing the very essence of the "Alien" movies.
And for the platform, too, hellyeah.
And for the platform, too, hellyeah.
That was something!
I appreciate the effort of programming for the XL! The abilities of coders never ceases to amaze me and the same goes for the gfx and msx.
Cewl!
Simply awesome, I love the graphics and the music.
Good work on this one, nice chiptune :).
Just to give non atarians some insights
Btw. Demo imho shows off why Lucasfilm Atari games stood out of the crowed... They used and combined all Atari features cleverly so did I.
There are NO new school tricks involved... All out of the box features:
- mode10 - 9 color mode for desire logo 4:1 aspect ratio
- mode9 for the raycaster and using sprite overlays (16 shade mode)
- unlimited bobs... 96x58 full screen in again mode10
- 160x240 4 col screen with some sprite overlays (no Raster irqs)
- loading scroller using VBL only
- planet screen mixing gr.15 4col panels with sprite underplays with mode9 and multicolor PMs overlays left/right. (Main inspiration Star Raiders 2) Shaking done with altering display list. 160x240 resolution. Planet appearing with altering display list, same scrolling and distorting of the planet surface... For Amiga coders display list=copper list
- battleship 4 color in charmode. Simple color cycling for engine fire. Shaking with Hscrol and Vscrol. 2 multicolor sprite comets
- 3d warp tunnel mixing again same modes like the surface part. No shaking here because no CPU time left to run it in 50 fps. Mixing 4 col 160x mode with 16 shade mode. Square pixel 4:4 done via display list.
- 160x96 realtime radial bitmap fire with Sprite scroller. Mirroring done via hardware = copper list ;)
- flickering 160x240 4 col corridor with random color changes
Alien who did the gfx wanted to use 3 colors only for all artwork. On a 256 col machine... So don't blame me ;)
I am just telling that to show how clever you can do nice looking games etc by only using build in features when having good artists. And of course the msx done by BeWu which was written exclusively for the demo.
While watching the revision videos... Well... When strollers appear I am loading next part. I am using 128kb ram banks to preload stuff like ram disk. Each fx would run on 64k machine.
Last but not least.... Why no irq loader. On A8 it is not easy to have stuff running esp music while loading because pokey who does I/o needs 2 sound channels for serial interrupts. And I played around with using XXLs track loader but failed as I am using low ram. Means $0800 ff. and XXL has a boot loader which can handle such low ram but uses OS disk routines and therefor no music while loading possible. More info http://xxl.atari.pl
Inspiration sources from my side:
- axelay on snes
- Electra glide
- koronis rift by lucasfilm
- rescue on fractious intro by lucasfilm
- star raiders 2
- turrican 2 intro
Btw. Demo imho shows off why Lucasfilm Atari games stood out of the crowed... They used and combined all Atari features cleverly so did I.
There are NO new school tricks involved... All out of the box features:
- mode10 - 9 color mode for desire logo 4:1 aspect ratio
- mode9 for the raycaster and using sprite overlays (16 shade mode)
- unlimited bobs... 96x58 full screen in again mode10
- 160x240 4 col screen with some sprite overlays (no Raster irqs)
- loading scroller using VBL only
- planet screen mixing gr.15 4col panels with sprite underplays with mode9 and multicolor PMs overlays left/right. (Main inspiration Star Raiders 2) Shaking done with altering display list. 160x240 resolution. Planet appearing with altering display list, same scrolling and distorting of the planet surface... For Amiga coders display list=copper list
- battleship 4 color in charmode. Simple color cycling for engine fire. Shaking with Hscrol and Vscrol. 2 multicolor sprite comets
- 3d warp tunnel mixing again same modes like the surface part. No shaking here because no CPU time left to run it in 50 fps. Mixing 4 col 160x mode with 16 shade mode. Square pixel 4:4 done via display list.
- 160x96 realtime radial bitmap fire with Sprite scroller. Mirroring done via hardware = copper list ;)
- flickering 160x240 4 col corridor with random color changes
Alien who did the gfx wanted to use 3 colors only for all artwork. On a 256 col machine... So don't blame me ;)
I am just telling that to show how clever you can do nice looking games etc by only using build in features when having good artists. And of course the msx done by BeWu which was written exclusively for the demo.
While watching the revision videos... Well... When strollers appear I am loading next part. I am using 128kb ram banks to preload stuff like ram disk. Each fx would run on 64k machine.
Last but not least.... Why no irq loader. On A8 it is not easy to have stuff running esp music while loading because pokey who does I/o needs 2 sound channels for serial interrupts. And I played around with using XXLs track loader but failed as I am using low ram. Means $0800 ff. and XXL has a boot loader which can handle such low ram but uses OS disk routines and therefor no music while loading possible. More info http://xxl.atari.pl
Inspiration sources from my side:
- axelay on snes
- Electra glide
- koronis rift by lucasfilm
- rescue on fractious intro by lucasfilm
- star raiders 2
- turrican 2 intro
nice demo, good gfx (as expected)
and now u tell me it has 256 colors..
;)
and yes fra, thank u for recognising. both movie and machine are from the same year ;) just check the 'no escape' timelapse for a hidden reference ;)
here i have some timelapses of the pixelwork on this.
spacepanda
shippy
No escape
the end
;)
and yes fra, thank u for recognising. both movie and machine are from the same year ;) just check the 'no escape' timelapse for a hidden reference ;)
here i have some timelapses of the pixelwork on this.
spacepanda
shippy
No escape
the end
Gool prods! Great graphics!
Solid demo. Nice, consistent graphics and design. One of my favorites from this competition.
Nice graphics going on here.
Awesome!
a solid production
Cute production. I loved the planet scene in the star ship. Beautiful graphics. Should have ranked higher.
nice work mates.....looking forward to work on the next release ;)
yup, should've ranked higher. nice work ;)
Nice A800 Demo :)
Great work! Despite the tough competition I would've liked seeing this end up a bit higher.
Lovely demo - gfx, msx and design, ideas. I felt like Heaven ;) (kudos to Karolj Nadj). Real surprise from Revision!
Tough Competition if sth like this ends up 5th!
Everything rules in here.
But it feels unfinished...especially the abrupt absence of sound in the middle kills the mood.
Everything rules in here.
But it feels unfinished...especially the abrupt absence of sound in the middle kills the mood.
This must have been quite a bit of work, great music, superb graphics and nice effects, rules!
Supergeil!
seen this going from testfx videos to this, and i must say: great job.
not bad
Heaven did a great job as well as BeWu, Alien and all others. Proud to do a little contribution to this nice demo.
To avoid misunderstandings, I only did that little endpart tune, the good part of the soundtrack was done by Master BeWu.
Final is in the Making btw.
To avoid misunderstandings, I only did that little endpart tune, the good part of the soundtrack was done by Master BeWu.
Final is in the Making btw.
Really pleased to see such a cool demo on XL =)
was cool to see this thing grow....and thx for letting me contribute ;) and thx alien for alienating my logo ;)
nice stuff
thx to the admins to add the final version here.
this is my final version of Arsantica demo presented first at Revsion 2014 demo party and gained 5th place in oldscool compo.
changes to the compo edition:
- credits now included ;)
- loading sound while loading the parts ("IRQ loader")
- small timing issues fixed
- Tweaking logo fading
- alien corridor kicked of the compo edition so Triace' music can play longer and the credits scroller
this is my final version of Arsantica demo presented first at Revsion 2014 demo party and gained 5th place in oldscool compo.
changes to the compo edition:
- credits now included ;)
- loading sound while loading the parts ("IRQ loader")
- small timing issues fixed
- Tweaking logo fading
- alien corridor kicked of the compo edition so Triace' music can play longer and the credits scroller
Thanks for sharing the final version!
@Heaven:
is the music somewhere separately for downloading available? Really awesome songs in this prod! congrats to TRiACE!!
is the music somewhere separately for downloading available? Really awesome songs in this prod! congrats to TRiACE!!
@twh
https://soundcloud.com/deejay-arvy/sets/pokey-chiptunes
regarding main tune still awaiting the MP3 from Bartek.
https://soundcloud.com/deejay-arvy/sets/pokey-chiptunes
regarding main tune still awaiting the MP3 from Bartek.
Good stuff!
I guess the main problem is to make people clear what are the limits of the A8 and that it is originally a 70s computer. The resulting demo is more than people may recognize , when watching it. OR , in other words: This is more outstanding than a viewer may recognize. Particular the "going to planet crash" part.... This is really a great job. In GFX and music !!!......! ;)
If people knowed, they really would push it with more positive comments :)
If people knowed, they really would push it with more positive comments :)
great music and pixel art. tested on animals!
freaking hell. this was nice. more scenes, less time per scene next time please :)
oh and sincere likings on your ascii like pixels at the end. this was really nice.
still fascinated by the great music. I'm listening in endless mode the song of the last part .. very catchy !!
Thanks twh :) MP3-download is here if another one is interested ;) https://soundcloud.com/deejay-arvy/triace-arsantica-end-theme-from-revision-2014-desire-atari-8-bit-oldskool-demo
@Triace: Thank you! Wonderfull song. I can enjoy it in an endless loop :)
good shit
holy shit! what a nice demo and what a great music!
nice
Didn't know Atari 8 bit could sound like this!
Very nice effects which fit perfect to the story. Also thumb up for the great music.
- nice tunes
- some kickass feects
- interesting story told
so guess what it deserves.
Also, please add HD-quality utube if you can, since 240p utube obviously shits at times.
- some kickass feects
- interesting story told
so guess what it deserves.
Also, please add HD-quality utube if you can, since 240p utube obviously shits at times.
Nice overall!
Awesome!
Great graphics and presentation. The effects however dont impress me that much. Still, a nice polished production, so thumb it is.
obviously thumb up
Very nice!
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reminds me Robotech