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AMIGAstore Cracktro by Batman Group
screenshot added by Rhino/BG on 2023-07-02 17:50:36
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release date : july 2023
release party : Posadas 2023
compo : amiga intro
ranked : 2nd
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popularity : 60%
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alltime top: #4053
added on the 2023-07-02 17:50:36 by Rhino/BG Rhino/BG

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sweet
rulez added on the 2023-07-02 18:03:47 by Ramon B5 Ramon B5
Sweet screen!
rulez added on the 2023-07-02 18:07:05 by grip grip
I like the starfield very much!
rulez added on the 2023-07-02 18:45:23 by Depeche Depeche
Love this simple screen. Such colorful rasters (even horizontally) and massive burst of stars in yer face
rulez added on the 2023-07-02 19:12:27 by Optimus Optimus
Great looking, color-cycling copper bars!
Nice stars.
Cool chippy.
rulez added on the 2023-07-02 19:23:37 by sim sim
Nice starfield!!!
Colorful! I love that night sky with the milky way in the background.
rulez added on the 2023-07-02 21:28:12 by ham ham
Nice little cracktro to advertise an amiga webshop/store
rulez added on the 2023-07-02 22:35:31 by Queen_Luna Queen_Luna
An small technical miracle and the compo winner for me...Batman Group has the Midas touch, even an small cracktro can turn to gold under their expert hands.
rulez added on the 2023-07-02 23:00:52 by peskanov peskanov
Massive starfield and super smooth
rulez added on the 2023-07-02 23:50:42 by exocet exocet
Nice one, i liked that bars.

Somehow it reminds me of the output of the OldSkoolDemoMaker that was used several years ago to effortlessly produce a lot of crappy Windows crack intros.
rulez added on the 2023-07-03 00:02:24 by hitchhikr hitchhikr
Excellent design and coding; flawless, well done!
rulez added on the 2023-07-03 00:31:39 by iolo iolo
Really pretty copper bars :3

Was gonna thumb it down at first because I thought this was made in OSDM... but then I saw the platform :P
rulez added on the 2023-07-03 00:35:32 by isocosa isocosa
perfection!
rulez added on the 2023-07-03 01:22:06 by RufUsul RufUsul
what RufUsul said
rulez added on the 2023-07-03 08:47:23 by v3nom v3nom
So many tricks for a single screen. Well done!
rulez added on the 2023-07-03 09:19:31 by Soundy Soundy
Really, really nice. Subtle effects, massive starfield. Strangely enough it only runs booted from floppy on my A3000/060, not from HDD.
rulez added on the 2023-07-03 10:03:45 by mnemotron mnemotron
Not to be sneezed at. Feels like a cracktro. Lovely. Pretty cool idea with
the heterogenous starfield in front of the nebula - though I would have
rather expected the SilverSurfer than Batman in this setting ;-)
Thanks for this great cracktro and the upcheering entertainment.
rulez added on the 2023-07-03 10:45:33 by ROG_VF ROG_VF
Very nice cracktro, except I did not like the music.
rulez added on the 2023-07-03 11:39:26 by leGend leGend
very strange things are happening when running this cracktro on MiSTer & ASUS PA248QV: https://i.imgur.com/UR2FexG.jpg
I've never seen this before. otherwise the display never had an issue with image persistance. the ghost image still shows when running Windows on another input of the monitor. after disconnecting power and waiting for approx. 15 minutes, it goes away and everything seems to be normal again. this happens every time I run this particular demo. wtf?
rulez added on the 2023-07-03 13:14:21 by mcCoy mcCoy
Nice starfield and colorful screen
rulez added on the 2023-07-03 14:28:50 by ok3anos ok3anos
Nice one! <3
rulez added on the 2023-07-03 16:35:05 by wiseman wiseman
I really liked the copperbars and especially the starfield. Rhino as always does not disappoint,
rulez added on the 2023-07-03 21:23:53 by estrayk estrayk
Thanks for the feedback, guys!
Here are some notes for those of you who haven't read the text of this little cracktro:

Some of you may be familiar with the design of this cracktro. That's because it's based on an original design published 14 years ago by the youtube channel buromaschinen, under the title 'Shadow of the beast 2 crack intro' https://youtu.be/WRLN-altyM0
There was some controversy in the comments of that video, with some claiming it was a fake for including text about the game from wikipedia, others saying that something like that was impossible to run on a standard A500. Whether it was fake or not, we found the motivation to bring that cracktro to the A500 as part of the amiga programming practices prior to the development of Batman Rises.

Technical curiosities:
Nebula background are sprites in 10 colors and was not in the original design.
Starfield is composed of more than 1300 stars in a wide range of sizes.
Copper plasma-bars use mesh to smooth the horizontal color gradient.
All blits are launched from the copper so that the cpu has enough time for calculations without attending to the blitter.
Sinustext uses 3 bitplanes, the starfield uses another 3 bitplanes, the copper bars use 2 bitplanes because of the mesh, and the sprite galaxy uses an equivalent of between 3 and 4 bitplanes.
Scrolltext is in hires without interlace.
added on the 2023-07-03 22:12:20 by Rhino/BG Rhino/BG
Classic cracktro ingredients on crack!
rulez added on the 2023-07-04 03:28:50 by rloaderro rloaderro
This cracktro should have won. Beautiful in every way.
rulez added on the 2023-07-04 06:57:16 by Skynet Skynet
Those copper bars are ace.
rulez added on the 2023-07-04 11:26:40 by mr_spiv mr_spiv
Amazing crack intro style!
rulez added on the 2023-07-04 14:37:37 by malmix malmix
A lot of very well picked colors, and an awesome starfield. We were very happy to see this intro at posadas!
rulez added on the 2023-07-04 15:25:14 by amiades amiades
Very beautiful starfield visual
rulez added on the 2023-07-05 14:24:56 by bifat bifat
This is for me the best one of the compo.. but.. this isnt a crack intro but an advertisementro :D

Colorfull, and those stars.. wooowwwwww..

Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?
rulez added on the 2023-07-05 19:09:49 by magic magic
I found this fun thread on eab about whether this cracktro would be possible on Amiga OCS:
https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=62868&highlight=WRLN-altyM0
As some say, nothing like making it to prove it :)
added on the 2023-07-06 11:46:36 by Rhino/BG Rhino/BG
Great story behind the intros conception. Looks great!
rulez added on the 2023-07-06 14:11:24 by Motion Motion
@Rhino / 2023-07-06 11:46:36
Had a quick look. Very cool thread. Will be my bedtime reading; gosh,
this sounds kinda nerdy and weird.
Little question: Have you implemented the sine text as it's discussed in
the thread...or would pre-sheared letters be another possible option?
added on the 2023-07-06 14:28:19 by ROG_VF ROG_VF
Cool copper bars and stars, colours, ok music.
rulez added on the 2023-07-06 14:31:42 by Serpent Serpent
@Motion
No, I did the sinetext with 2 pixels of horizontal precision but maybe I could have done it pixel-precise. The biggest challenge was combining the use of copper, blitter and CPU to get it all together runing at 50 fps considering the starfield had to be quite populated and including a wide range of sizes.
Using the graphical capabilities of OCS to make it look visually not too inferior to the original was also a bit of a challenge.
I just found that aeb thread yesterday.
added on the 2023-07-06 22:17:03 by Rhino/BG Rhino/BG
This cracktro conviced me to buy (at) the original :D
rulez added on the 2023-07-07 09:59:17 by dirtie dirtie
Very nice starfield!
rulez added on the 2023-07-07 12:26:12 by Mystra Mystra
Lovely raster!
rulez added on the 2023-07-07 22:22:29 by Corial Corial
Nice tune. Is there an audio file (MP3, OGG, XM, S3M, IT, MOD, etc.) of it?
added on the 2023-07-10 18:48:13 by AntDude AntDude
Good stuff, those rasters r0x!
rulez added on the 2023-07-10 18:57:40 by sachy sachy
Pretty much cracktro perfection
rulez added on the 2023-07-13 17:50:51 by iTeC iTeC
Moar!
rulez added on the 2023-07-13 22:22:14 by Emod Emod
@AntDude We have just uploaded the mod. Thanks!
added on the 2023-07-16 21:11:03 by Rhino/BG Rhino/BG
ok
added on the 2023-07-18 13:47:50 by Frequent Frequent
Oldschool overdose <3
rulez added on the 2023-07-22 14:34:05 by Virgill Virgill
A lovely cracktro to watch in loop!
rulez added on the 2023-07-24 13:48:06 by TotO TotO
@Rhino/BG TY! :)
added on the 2023-07-24 18:34:00 by AntDude AntDude
Lovely! Absolutely lovely!
rulez added on the 2023-07-31 22:13:02 by spkr spkr
Classically nice.
rulez added on the 2023-08-01 09:44:01 by Dma-Sc Dma-Sc
Classic, colorist and very solid prod. Congrats!
rulez added on the 2023-08-02 13:28:51 by F1REB0Y F1REB0Y
I love this! Tune rocks too!
rulez added on the 2023-10-07 19:19:33 by Olympian Olympian

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