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Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

Mido posted:

will paypal $20 to the first person who makes an impressive yospos demo

http://youtu.be/m5_Od-FONNQ

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Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

the guy who did the Tyrian music when he was 19 later went on to do basically every unreal engine game and is also a voice actor now

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.


yeah it's just adding 1 to the color index each scanline for player graphics and the background which everything did

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

Wheany posted:

the tunnel sequences in stardust were basically bloodhouse waving their demo scene dicks in the player's face

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzK2jnmY_JY

reminds me of the 1981 arcade game tunnel hunt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZT3A66e_lo

it started as "hey i designed some hardware that can draw ellipses really fast let's make this into a game" in 1979

then they decided ellipses were too expensive, sold it to another company, and redesigned it to draw circles really fast instead because circles are cheaper and it was now 1980

then that company decided circles were too expensive, sold it to another company, and redesigned it to draw squares really fast because squares are cheaper and it was now 1981

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

the SN76489 as used in the ti-99/4a is incapable of bass so gl playing bleep bloop arpeggios on it. the TMS5200 rules though

an interesting thing about it is that you can drop in an MSX2 VDP onto the board and have 80-column text

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

it's not actually a full 16 bit architecture, anything outside of ROM and the scratchpad ram goes through a slow-rear end multiplexer because it's an 8 bit system with a 16 bit CPU because TI

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Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

Don Lapre posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWfvCYK-ZiM

That feeling when you open a crack and youd rather listen to the music than play the linux iso

quote:

;Dear Cracker,
;To save you time, simply fill in the appropriate lines below..

type "Line Of Fire!
type " Cracked by the utterly amazing and fab _________ of _______!"
type "Hot greets to _____ and _____!!"
type "Lamings and slaggings to _____ of _____ and _____!!!"
type "Call our BBSs on ____-______ and ____-______ for the latest warez!"
type ""
type "I am a sad and immature spotty little twat because _______________."
type "I crack games for free as I have no friends"
type "and am physically repulsive to females because of my chronic _______."
type "I hate my parents because they _____ and make me tidy me room even"
type "when I have been at kindergarten the whole day."
type ""
type "I have played with myself ____ times in the past 24 hours"
type "and have wet dreams about ________ from Neighbours."
type ""
type "The last Kylie Minogue record I brought was ________ and I think"
type "she's lush and fab and ace and wicked because she's _________ and I fancy her."
type ""
type "Press right button for trainer, left for normal. Probably."
Crap_Demo_That_Crashes_Half_The_Time_And_Has_A_Sprite_Starfield_Oooh_How_Original
run Corrupt_loads_of_memory_all_over_the_place
Game

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