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You've probably seen these but I thought I'd mention them anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1p1im_2uf4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1p1im_2uf4 http

by i336_ 10y ago

You've probably seen these but I thought I'd mention them anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1p1im_2uf4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1p1im_2uf4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWdG413nNkI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWdG413nNkI Piece de resistance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdb3AQ14iVc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdb3AQ14iVc (live cheering FTW) / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNRO7lno_DM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNRO7lno_DM (capture card copy) The credits in the 3rd video are an excellent example of using modern tooling. (How this was done has been documented online and is easy to find; it did take some cheating to do it but it's still awesome.) Hrm, the SID music in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mgtY2326Y0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mgtY2326Y0 is also amazing (this demo was on two floppies, I particularly like the music in the 2nd part which uses a distinctly different theme) and very obviously produced by modern tools too. (Note, that video is a 50fps capture and uses a real SID.)

fit2rule 10y ago
Nice links, thanks for that! My favourite aspect of the modern 8-bit movement is watching the development of this Blakes 7 game for the Oric-1/Atmos games .. we Oric nerds are getting some real treats these days, which seem to really push the machine beyond what we expected in the 80's, and that is surely nice. Just check out the smooth animation and clever use of colours in this demo, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OskowiQuDzQ&t=39s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OskowiQuDzQ&t=39s Interesting note: OASIS is the game/script/content engine created for the purpose of making games like this on the Oric systems. How amazing we have such tools for such an obscure device, even today!
- i336_ 10y ago
  Wow, 1MHz. That demo looks pretty cool and rather refined, yeah - the colors are indeed well-balanced. The galaxy sidescrolling does appear to be pushing the machine's limits; with that in mind the mouth animation is very smooth. I'd admittedly add at least one extra mouth-movement frame and randomly switch between them for more realistic lo-fi animation, I'd make the text sequences advance about 25% faster, and I'm not sure if the text was traditionally at the top but I kept looking for it at the bottom (where subtitles/closed captions usually live). OASIS sounds interesting, but I'm unsure where to find more info on it. Very amusingly, when I googled "oric-1 oasis", your comment on here was among the search results! http://i.imgur.com/4HUICdo.png http://i.imgur.com/4HUICdo.png Also, for other interesting things that fit in 1MHz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUN5CSWiLaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUN5CSWiLaw
  - fit2rule 10y ago
    Sweet 1MHZ video! OASIS Info here: http://forum.defence-force.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1273 http://forum.defence-force.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1273

by i336_ 10y ago

fit2rule 10y ago

Nice links, thanks for that! My favourite aspect of the modern 8-bit movement is watching the development of this Blakes 7 game for the Oric-1/Atmos games .. we Oric nerds are getting some real treats these days, which seem to really push the machine beyond what we expected in the 80's, and that is surely nice. Just check out the smooth animation and clever use of colours in this demo, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OskowiQuDzQ&t=39s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OskowiQuDzQ&t=39s Interesting note: OASIS is the game/script/content engine created for the purpose of making games like this on the Oric systems. How amazing we have such tools for such an obscure device, even today!

i336_ 10y ago
Wow, 1MHz. That demo looks pretty cool and rather refined, yeah - the colors are indeed well-balanced. The galaxy sidescrolling does appear to be pushing the machine's limits; with that in mind the mouth animation is very smooth. I'd admittedly add at least one extra mouth-movement frame and randomly switch between them for more realistic lo-fi animation, I'd make the text sequences advance about 25% faster, and I'm not sure if the text was traditionally at the top but I kept looking for it at the bottom (where subtitles/closed captions usually live). OASIS sounds interesting, but I'm unsure where to find more info on it. Very amusingly, when I googled "oric-1 oasis", your comment on here was among the search results! http://i.imgur.com/4HUICdo.png http://i.imgur.com/4HUICdo.png Also, for other interesting things that fit in 1MHz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUN5CSWiLaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUN5CSWiLaw
- fit2rule 10y ago
  Sweet 1MHZ video! OASIS Info here: http://forum.defence-force.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1273 http://forum.defence-force.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1273