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screenshot added by KK on 2013-11-13 11:15:26
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release date : november 2013
release party : Silly Venture 2013
compo : console demo
ranked : 1st
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popularity : 63%
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alltime top: #2241
  • KK KK [idea, code, music]
added on the 2013-11-13 11:15:26 by KK KK

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(sorry for choppy video - YT apparently did 50->30 FPS conversion)
added on the 2013-11-13 11:16:29 by KK KK
Excellent!
wow
!!
rulez added on the 2013-11-13 11:24:35 by Buckethead Buckethead
The Best SV2K13 production. Amazing stuff! Hats off!
rulez added on the 2013-11-13 11:30:37 by xeen xeen
Nice!
rulez added on the 2013-11-13 11:32:16 by p01 p01
How is that even possible on a VCS !! Awesome !
rulez added on the 2013-11-13 11:44:52 by Orion_ Orion_
More atari stuff coming, woot!!!
rulez added on the 2013-11-13 11:55:11 by Optimus Optimus
Awesome....\o/
rulez added on the 2013-11-13 11:56:47 by Premium Premium
Just insane!!
rulez added on the 2013-11-13 11:56:48 by BackSpace BackSpace
I don't know how much influence the extra memory has to the quality (do you have big precalculated tables or something?), but all in all, it still probably is the best 2600 production I have ever seen.
rulez added on the 2013-11-13 12:02:47 by Preacher Preacher
Quote:
I don't know how much influence the extra memory has to the quality
I'd say this probably has _EVERYTHING_ to do with the quality :P But it's very good ^^
rulez added on the 2013-11-13 12:14:48 by ferris ferris
Preacher: I didn't focus on size optimizing this one. The demo uses slightly over 20k of the ROM size, so with a bit of tweaking 16kB ROM may be possible. I'm quite positive that there may be some duplicated sine tables that could be reused, or something.

And yes, this demo makes huge use of precalculated tables. You don't expect me to do atan/sqrt xor tunnel on 6507 in real time, or precalc tables to 128B of total memory? (no extra RAM used) :)
added on the 2013-11-13 12:56:12 by KK KK
Simply amazed! That's the spirit!
rulez added on the 2013-11-13 13:23:33 by Exin Exin
I'm not used to VCS 2600 prods but for a machine as old as me with a MOS 6507 at 1.19Mhz even if 20k of rom... It's impressive !

Back to the roots of the roots ^^

Great job ! :)
rulez added on the 2013-11-13 13:38:14 by hylst hylst
VCS pwnage ! \o/
rulez added on the 2013-11-13 13:47:18 by zerkman zerkman
This is what happens when you turn insane up to 11.

I would never have thought the console which brought us E.T. could do anything like this, precalc tables or not.

Amazing work! \o/
rulez added on the 2013-11-13 14:24:03 by falken falken
Holy shit! :)

For a while I thought it used extra RAM, but nope - just regular F4 bankswitching (probably lots of tables). Music is good too - nice use of phasing/not-slocum-player amplitude shapes.
rulez added on the 2013-11-13 14:33:33 by Tjoppen Tjoppen
Absolutely amazing. Best VCS demo Ever! Congratulations.
rulez added on the 2013-11-13 15:42:53 by at0m at0m
Satan i gatan, what a demo. I'm impressed!
rulez added on the 2013-11-13 16:10:02 by evil evil
Awesome 3D parts and rotozoomers and music was okay. I'd love to see what you can do in 4k next :)
rulez added on the 2013-11-13 19:54:13 by visy visy
kk you made my day at SV, thanks for releasing this! It really shows the power of your approach and your ground breaking tracker. Dot ball, zoomer/tunnel and scrolling cube are ace.
Quote:
I don't know how much influence the extra memory has to the quality

On VCS ROM size is all you have so things that are impossible in 4k may be hard in 8k and trivial in 32k. So sizes really make totally different categories on the this platform. Technically this is definitively the best 32k prod so far.
rulez added on the 2013-11-13 20:06:15 by JAC! JAC!
True 2600 demoscene pr0n. Simply excellent!
rulez added on the 2013-11-13 20:22:03 by twh twh
Cool demo, lots of excellent FXs, and even the sound is ok.
rulez added on the 2013-11-13 20:31:25 by baah baah
killer
rulez added on the 2013-11-13 21:38:20 by gentleman gentleman
wonder what is possible on a vcs... stunned!
rulez added on the 2013-11-13 22:06:31 by whizart whizart
@visy & JAC!: No fancy bankswitching effects or completely pre-baked animations used. Every single of the effects is works in 4k on VCS without a single algorithm modification. Just probably not all of them at once. :)
added on the 2013-11-13 22:22:12 by KK KK
Yes, new blood on the VCS!
Some very nice routines, the grey x-rotator bars was probably my favorite, looked damn good!

One strange thing though, on my PAL Atari 2600jr with Harmony cart, two parts bug:
The scroller and the green bubble-sprites thing (right before the dotball).
Both of those effects looks like everything gets offset by about one clock cycle per rasterline, resulting in everything just being one big diagonal mess.

Anyone else get something like that? This is the first thing I've ever seen that runs differently in Stella than it does on my real HW.
rulez added on the 2013-11-13 22:50:33 by Sdw Sdw
Great!
rulez added on the 2013-11-13 22:59:06 by Dma-Sc Dma-Sc
@Sdw: Yolk got the same effect on 2 of his 3 A2600 Jrs. Looks like the way I'm doing 8px left sprite shift. I'm in touch with him now and I'll try to find a code that works on all machines.
added on the 2013-11-13 23:05:42 by KK KK
Mind = Blown. Amazing stuff.
rulez added on the 2013-11-14 05:12:33 by Alopex Alopex
Almost all the effects in one demo;)
rulez added on the 2013-11-14 07:54:26 by ripek ripek
possibly the best vcs demo so far
rulez added on the 2013-11-14 08:45:51 by Oswald Oswald
Another milestone demo!

It's so good, it made my nose bleed (I'm serious! After watching it I had to go get some paper to clog up my bleeding nose)
rulez added on the 2013-11-14 19:07:55 by TomoAlien TomoAlien
I find no words. It's just masterpiece! Highlight of the competitions. KK, you are simply the best :)
rulez added on the 2013-11-15 00:46:53 by grey grey
Great demo!
rulez added on the 2013-11-15 12:07:50 by Iapetus Iapetus
very fine demo.
i prefer atarsi, tho =)
rulez added on the 2013-11-15 12:21:07 by wysiwtf wysiwtf
Absolute great !
rulez added on the 2013-11-16 17:19:16 by Chainsaw Chainsaw
Gee! This is mindblowing! Amazing demo!
rulez added on the 2013-11-16 20:25:52 by Daniel Daniel
Technically this seems very good, but in my opinion in every other regard this is still far behind the standard set by wamma/trilobit demos in 2007 already. Well made, but doesn't tickle my fancy.
added on the 2013-11-16 20:55:44 by noby noby
rulez added on the 2013-11-19 20:54:47 by Quarryman Quarryman
Wow!
rulez added on the 2013-11-23 22:18:35 by AntDude AntDude
A lot of effects ported to the VCS.... really nice !
rulez added on the 2013-11-24 20:52:38 by Shazz^TRSi^MJJ Shazz^TRSi^MJJ
Cool!
rulez added on the 2013-11-24 21:49:50 by sm sm
!!!
rulez added on the 2013-11-25 13:17:57 by JaceSTK JaceSTK
Top VCS demo :)
rulez added on the 2013-11-25 20:24:29 by krupkaj krupkaj
Fantastic routines!
Atari 2600 is the future.
rulez added on the 2013-11-28 14:11:25 by cruzer cruzer
one of the best 2600 demos so far
rulez added on the 2013-11-30 09:47:23 by v3nom v3nom
THE Demo of the 2013.
rulez added on the 2013-12-01 13:42:56 by argasek argasek
HOLY SHIT NEARLY FULLSCREEN ROTOZOOMER THAT WORKS WITH ARBITRARY IMAGES ON THE VCS. I don't think even Tjoppen could do that.
rulez added on the 2013-12-08 03:47:14 by Alegend45 Alegend45
Fantastic demo!
rulez added on the 2013-12-08 21:29:45 by be10n be10n
boom!
rulez added on the 2013-12-11 20:35:23 by sensenstahl sensenstahl
omg!
rulez added on the 2013-12-29 02:32:49 by sigflup sigflup
The rotating gray boxes and the rotating cube alone are worth the thumb up, and music quality is good, too. I really like how you combined sprites and playfield in some parts. Great stuff, and creative use of the VCS' assets!

I'm no fan of all the lo-res effects, though. If a machine can do effect X only in crappy lo-res, then don't do it at all - but that's only my opinion. Oh, and design-wise that demo comes straight out of 1988, with logo on top, black background all the way through or screaming raster colors... that could definitely be improved upon. ;-)

Anyway, overall a good demo, and it really looks like lots of effort went into it. Cool!
rulez added on the 2014-01-23 21:16:40 by Kylearan Kylearan
Seeing this on that platform is unbelievable to me :)
added on the 2014-01-23 23:02:46 by Triace Triace
Ace!
rulez added on the 2014-01-24 15:35:38 by Emod Emod
wow!
rulez added on the 2014-01-24 15:55:09 by rez rez
funny
rulez added on the 2014-01-24 16:12:00 by g0blinish g0blinish
minimum hardware maximum show! :)
rulez added on the 2014-01-24 16:34:02 by spritus spritus
AWESOMEEEEE!
rulez added on the 2014-09-02 23:43:43 by Antiemes Antiemes
A lot of nicely designed thingies in such a SMALL and LIMITED platfrom.
Respect for dedication and work put in to.
rulez added on the 2014-09-26 17:59:01 by sim sim
ATARI!!!!!
rulez added on the 2015-03-09 17:26:20 by Blast! Blast!
Kick-ass!!!
rulez added on the 2015-04-10 11:18:06 by JTZ JTZ
Great tech, great music.
rulez added on the 2016-06-24 12:14:24 by nollkolltroll nollkolltroll
what Triace said!
rulez added on the 2018-09-07 22:50:52 by Asato Asato
ace
Nice VCS demo
rulez added on the 2023-05-18 14:28:02 by Queen_Luna Queen_Luna

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