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saimo information 23 glöps

• general:
• level: user
• personal:
• first name: Simone
• last name: Bevilacqua
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• demo Amiga OCS/ECS Second Nature by Desire [web] & The Twitch Elite
• Outstandingly beautiful. Beautifully outstanding.
• rulezadded on the 2026-04-26 11:30:40
• demo Amiga OCS/ECS HAMazing by Desire [web]
• Never was a title more appropriate. Congratulations!
• rulezadded on the 2026-04-26 11:23:16
• demo Amiga OCS/ECS Bacon of Hope by Desire [web]
• Masterpiece. Stunning in all departments.
• rulezadded on the 2026-04-25 18:26:29
• demo Amiga AGA Hertz Overload by RETREAM [web]
• @all
  
  Thanks for the nice words!
  
  
  @aGGreSSor
  
  Unless the machine the demo runs on can't keep the pace (e.g. due to slow mechanical HD) or you mean that the scrolling is slow, the scrolling doesn't twitch: it moves upwards steadily at about 4.33 lines every second (the scrolling is synchronized to the music playback; more precisely: a step is performed every time a chunk of audio data is loaded; the data is streamed by loading 65536 bytes at a time; that's 65536/4 = 16384 samples per channel; given that the playback frequency is 70937.9 Hz, 70937.9/16384 = ~4.33 steps per seconds are performed; therefore, if the scrolling twitched, also music would stutter).
  The slow speed allows reading the information without much effort and thus without distracting the viewer too much from the music.
• rulezadded on the 2025-02-03 13:34:26
• demo Amiga AGA THE CURE by RETREAM [web]
• Thank you folks for the additional nice words :)
  
  I released one more update that hopefully cures (heh) the stuttering I've seen on some boards that are more than capable of running the demo at full speed.
  
  v1.5 (2.1.2024)
  * Improved CPU data cache handling on 68040 and 68060.
  * Ensured the system MMU setup does not affect performance.
  * Ensured the 68060 susperscalar dispatch is enabled.
  * Made some small optimizations.
  * Made startup and cleanup code more robust.
  
  
• isokadded on the 2024-01-10 01:04:46
• demo Amiga AGA THE CURE by RETREAM [web]
• Eventually I released two other updates.
  Highlights:
  * improved music quality;
  * improved/fixed audio-to-video sychronization;
  * a few more palette effects;
  * other little improvements.
  (For the details, check out the changelog below).
  
  The newest version can be downloaded from https://www.retream.com/THE_CURE / https://retream.itch.io/the-cure. I have just uploaded the updated archive to ftp.scene.org, so when it will be public I'll update the download link here.
  
  v1.4 (29.04.2022)
  * Improved music: improved S/N ratio by eliminating a peak (caused by the "str" of "street" in the spoken part) and re-normalizing the waveform; amplified initial part a little bit; reduced greatly the noise that affected the coda (due to the 8-bit quantization) by amplifying that part of the waveform to the maximum and balancing that with a real-time volume change; increased sampling frequency to 29073 Hz (side effects: channels 2 and 3 can no longer be used, so the output volume is lower; music decoding takes a little longer as there is more data to decode each frame; the CHIP bus time taken by audio DMA is almost halved, which makes the demo less demanding).
  * Added switch-off of filter to ensure music sounds as it is supposed to.
  * Fixed audio-to-video synchronization: fixed drifting caused by the difference between the actual and theoretical rates (~49.92 VS 50 Hz) of the video refresh (that, by the end of the demo, caused an asynchronism of ~0.5 s);; fixed 60 ms asynchronism caused by the fact that the first three frames required for music setup/buffering were ignored; fixed a few timing marks in the script (an off-by-one mark which caused a peak of operations in the specified frame; a mark that caused the following effect to execute 4 frames too late; a few marks that were off by a frame).
  * Fixed a bad routine pointer (caused by a wrong letter in a label in the source code; it is quite incredible that this did not produce disastrous results).
  * Added some palette effects.
  * Optimized music decoding by unpacking and undeltaing data at the same time (why it was not like this right from the beginning is a mistery).
  * Made some other small optimizations.
  * Made startup and cleanup code more robust by shielding some critical operations from NMIs and by dealing with audio playback performed with direct hardware access by other programs concurrently.
  * Added version string.
  * Improved/extended README.
• isokadded on the 2022-04-30 13:10:12
• demo Amiga AGA THE CURE by RETREAM [web]
• Thanks to those I haven't thanked yet! Your words are much appreciated :)
  
  I'd like to let you know that a few days ago I released a slightly updated version (changes listed below). The NFO file and download link here are now updated accordingly.
  
  v1.1 (20210602)
  * Made startup and cleanup code more robust.
  * Fixed (unlikely) memory leak in cleanup code.
  * Replaced "actual" with "current" in standings graphics.
  * Fixed/improved README.
• isokadded on the 2021-06-06 11:09:51
• diskmag Amiga AGA jurassic pack #18
• Well done, and congratulations on the effort!
• rulezadded on the 2021-01-23 21:47:31
• demo Amiga AGA THE CURE by RETREAM [web]
• @ham
  
  Yes, it might have been like you said, but who really knows... Anyway, I have fresh news - just received this from YouTube:
  
  ***
  
  Dear Simone Bevilacqua,
  
  Thank you for submitting your video appeal to YouTube. After further review, we have removed the age restriction on your video.
  
  THE CURE
  
  For more information please visit the YouTube Help Center.
  We apologize for the delay. Due to the recent global health crisis related to COVID-19, a number of our normal review processes have been disrupted and are experiencing delays. To stay up to date on any changes in our services—and our broader response to COVID-19—please check the Help Center.
  
  Sincerely,
  - The YouTube Team"
  
  ***
  
  Glad to see YouTube didn't support the unfair request :)
  Also, despite what they wrote, the reaction was not that slow: it took them only about 10 hours.
  
  On another note, thanks for the encouragement! To be honest though, I don't have other demos in my plans: I'm back to making games (and related stuff), instead - today I hoped to release a new graphics engine for the Amiga, but I just couldn't make it :p
• isokadded on the 2020-10-18 21:29:57
• demo Amiga AGA THE CURE by RETREAM [web]
• Thanks once again to everybody for the kind words.
  
  I'm posting this because today I received a nice email from YouTube saying this:
  
  "As you may know, our Community Guidelines describe which content we allow – and don’t allow – on YouTube. Your video THE CURE was flagged to us for review. Upon review, we’ve determined that it may not be suitable for all viewers and it has been placed behind an age restriction."
  
  Since the demo does not contain any minors, sex, violence, swear words, etc., does not promote illegal or disrespectful beahaviour and, quite the opposite, invites everybody to respect one another and the planet, and to cooperate for a better world, this really feels like a censorship attempt. Sad, very sad.
  Of course I have filed an appeal, but I wouldn't bet on its success...
• isokadded on the 2020-10-18 13:01:53