Deadbeat BBS by Shadow Productions

screenshot added by T$ on 2007-03-05 00:42:43

platform :	MS-Dos MS-Dos
type :	40k 40k bbstro bbstro
release date :	january 1992

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added on the 2007-02-28 03:47:15 by Dark Avenger

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Another masterpiece by White Shadow of Renaissance, for our trusty old school machines (pre-386), and an invitation to one of the biggest, baddest BBS's, back in the day, in the NJ area.

Some technical info, although I'm only watching it in DosBox at the moment so the colors and effects have all gone bonkers!

First of all the demo is in 320x200 or 240 16color VGA mode, with more than 16 colors on screen. At the top we have a big, fast-moving, slowly-bobbing, 4-bitplane scroller with some awesome fonts (probably of Amiga or Atari origin). This is hardware scrolled. There's also some sort of palette cycling going on, but I can't see it on DosBox. In the middle we have the BBS logo, and on top of it we have 5 bobs spelling out "RULEZ", doing some nice sine/cosine loops. The logo and bobs share bitplanes to get 16colors, and he's restoring the background before moving the bobs.

Finally below all the we have the best part of this "screen hack": another big scroller with some vertical bobbing, and some very cool sine/cosine waves running through it, making it "interlace" at certain intervals, and to top it off, it has raster/copper bars running in the middle of it, a correctly scaled/compressed reflection underneath it, with faded colors, 6 bobs spelling "SHADOW" bouncing on top of the scroller, and a semi-transparent "PRODUCTIONS" logo over the scroller reflection!! Woa! I love it! All this is re-drawn each frame. The scroller and "SHADOW" bobs share the 4 bitplanes, while I have a hunch that the "PRODUCTIONS" logo is on bitplane 3, while the reflection is scaled to 3 bitplanes to save on re-draw. Not 100% sure. I'd have to see it on a real PC, coz the messed up colors throw me off :(

Love this "screen hack", other than the touchy/buffered keyboard code which doesn't let me take screenshots easily :)

R.I.P. Dave!

rulez added on the 2007-02-28 04:04:59 by Dark Avenger

oldskool

rulez added on the 2007-03-04 21:19:25 by BITS

Classical

rulez added on the 2007-03-05 00:43:55 by T$

rulez added on the 2007-03-05 01:22:01 by Buckethead

nice bbs intro :)

rulez added on the 2013-02-04 22:14:56 by Queen_Luna

Let's give this one a capture:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIkVxJD0xxc
from Tseng ET4000. Comparison to CRT output there is still a minor flaw, the jumping 'shadow' chars have also some green/red vertical color shiny gradient on them.
But better than no capture :-).

rulez added on the 2013-10-28 00:52:00 by enigma