tonysavon

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   by tonysavon 9y ago

   We are not talking about REUs here, as clearly stated in the article. We are talking about Ocean Type Cartridges, which were available in the 80s. And yes, they where ROM, not RAM, and yes, they came in those sizes. 16Mb ram expansions did
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   by tonysavon 9y ago

   That's a very good point! And also one to keep in mind for a possible additional demo. Use only hardware from the 80s also for the encoding!
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   by tonysavon 9y ago

   This is running on an Ocean type cartridge as a storage, which is considered stock Hardware in the demo community, as stated in the article. If no additional device can be "accepted", then all of the demos mentioned in this thread
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   by tonysavon 9y ago

   The three-byte codebook version (the mazinger demo) can't even afford the increment, and just does a sty $d020, which takes 2 cycles less, hence the colorbars look a bit different on that one. But the audio sounds better.
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   by tonysavon 9y ago

   Playlist with the three demos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFeDsJqcV6DhwH16fVp_a...
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   by tonysavon 9y ago

   This is on stock C64 too :-). I guess the achievement here is using compression at such a high frequency. Once you get down to lower frequency, you can implement fancier compression schemes and add more stuff on display. The same author ha