Amiga Textmode Demos?
category: general [glöplog]
The IBM PC has had the Sorcerers, OTM, Alpha Design, even Future Crew. C64 has has Hitmen and Hoth's "PETSCIIficiation" textshows.
Has there ever been a "text mode" type of demo made on the Amiga?
Has there ever been a "text mode" type of demo made on the Amiga?
(Taken from Old Computers)
GRAPHIC MODES 320 x 200 and 320x400 (32 colors), 640 x 200 and 640 x 400 (16 colors)
TEXT MODES 60 x 32 / 80 x 32
Surely someone has done a demo in one of these modes?
GRAPHIC MODES 320 x 200 and 320x400 (32 colors), 640 x 200 and 640 x 400 (16 colors)
TEXT MODES 60 x 32 / 80 x 32
Surely someone has done a demo in one of these modes?
The gfx modes you mention in your post are for ntsc computers, european ones had 320*256 /
320*512 (same number of colors).
For the text modes they are talking about, it's probably a reference to the CLI but they are (were) gfx driven as the rest.
There is (was) no such text driven gfx modes on amiga as on the pc. Impact dk did a demo called "in a world of ascii" in 1993 (or something like that) that's all i know (not to forget the multi billions of cracktros displaying pages of texts).
320*512 (same number of colors).
For the text modes they are talking about, it's probably a reference to the CLI but they are (were) gfx driven as the rest.
There is (was) no such text driven gfx modes on amiga as on the pc. Impact dk did a demo called "in a world of ascii" in 1993 (or something like that) that's all i know (not to forget the multi billions of cracktros displaying pages of texts).
Thank you hitchhikr,
Does this imply that there were no advantages then, such as extra colors or faster framerate, by utilizing the Amiga 'text mode' ?
Does this imply that there were no advantages then, such as extra colors or faster framerate, by utilizing the Amiga 'text mode' ?
nope
Textmodes are soooo eight-bit.
As far as I know, PC is the only 32-bit machine with hardware textmode (excluding those non-PC machines that accept PC graphics cards).
Even 16-bit machines that have textmode are quite uncommon (TI-99/4A, MSX TurboR, Apple IIgs, C64/C128 with SuperCPU, some old word-processing machines, and of course, PC)
As far as I know, PC is the only 32-bit machine with hardware textmode (excluding those non-PC machines that accept PC graphics cards).
Even 16-bit machines that have textmode are quite uncommon (TI-99/4A, MSX TurboR, Apple IIgs, C64/C128 with SuperCPU, some old word-processing machines, and of course, PC)
yes
it even won 64k introcompo
911/limbo :D
it even won 64k introcompo
911/limbo :D
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=3678
911 is teh rox!!
There's also "In a world of ASCII" by Impact:
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=2324
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=2324
Yup -- Hey, didn't that just say "by Immortal Rat" no more than an hour ago? :)
oops, I just had a quick look on the thread and I missed hitchhikr's answer... but at least I gave the url ;)
radman: i thought we had made it clear that you shouldnt attempt to prepare salmiaki koskenkorva without proper supervision ;)
Proper supervision = me.
Just to be clear.
Just to be clear.
ofcourse it's worth noting that both In a world of ASCII and 911 is maybe drawn using characters but still done as graphics by the authors own text writing routines (even if the first doesn't look like it)
we watched some amiga textmode demos bylimbo couple days ago...
too lazy to unlog matti's account,
ps
too lazy to unlog matti's account,
ps
missing knight rider from pouet actually...
Hmm, the Amiga has no "text mode".. Everything is in graphics, just like in X11.
The console windows are slow because of this.
The console windows are slow because of this.
Not as slow as Atari. ;-)
These was a really nice "text" mode Amiga demo/intro i remember watching, i can't for the life of me remember th name, but it was using the std 640x256 resolution with std colours. Had 3D objects, voxel landscape a ball routine(can't think how else to describe it ;p ) and other things. I'll have to try and track it down :)
I think it is world of ascii by impact. But i dont think that was actually textmode anything. rather textmode rendering. (ie. it looked like textmode but really wasnt) But im not sure
Yeah, as has been mentioned no "text mode" on the Amiga, but was just rendered with the CLI. And i just checked that out iblis, and yep that was the one :) I also think 3 Little Elks did an ASCII one too at some point, but i'm not 100% sure.