Just keeping it real at Revision 2015

The demo I have made together with Trixter, reenigne, VileR, coda, virt and Phoenix has won the oldskool compo at Revision 2015:

I will discuss some of it in more detail at a later time. Trixter has already done a global write-up of the demo. And reenigne has done a piece on the 1024-colour tweak, the mod player, some other stuff, and VileR has also done a piece on the new CGA colours.

(Update: I have done pieces on the sprite and polygon parts as well now, and some background info on overall development)

For now, I’ll just leave you with the comments in the #revision IRC channel at the time our demo was shown:

00:34 <+Harekiet_rev> CGA!
00:34 < Raylight-PwL> lost for words
00:34 <+vscd[NPL]> WORD!!!! Platfor 8Bit
00:34 < Ham^Sfl> 1981 8088 PC
00:34 < Ham^Sfl> 😀
00:34 < pinchy> hehe
00:34 < wullon> Interesting
00:34 <@Wayne^AWY> oh no It’s IBM
00:34 < HellMood> instant love! ^^
00:35 < Ham^Sfl> beware of great audio beepers 😀
00:35 < platosha> didn’t know that pc had composite video
00:35 < HellMood> !love
00:35  * SceneSat spots that HellMood simply loooooves Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE – 8088 MPH! Ah, l’amour!
00:35 < Shad0w> 😮
00:35 < Ham^Sfl> CGA ! 😀
00:35 <+KeyJ> WT…F!
00:35 < joga> \,,/
00:35 <@[shd]> dafuq?
00:35 < cyb> wait WHAT!?!?!?!
00:35 <+KamikaTze> CGA rules!
00:35 <+HopperTSQ> ho.ly.shit
00:35 < kowalski>
00:35 < mruczek> whoa
00:35 < joga> aww yiss
00:35 <+Krill> blast from the past 🙂
00:35 < ne7> arg 😀 i’m spoiling the surprise hehe
00:36 <+jdb78> now THIS is oldskool 😀
00:36 < ne7> 🙂
00:36 < wullon> Love this
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00:36 < wullon> !love
00:36  * SceneSat spots that wullon simply loooooves Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE – 8088 MPH! Ah, l’amour!
00:36 < Ham^Sfl> LOLve this 😀
00:36 < sylto> !love
00:36 < pinchy> the 8088 heart on fire
00:36  * SceneSat spots that sylto simply loooooves Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE – 8088 MPH! Ah, l’amour!
00:36 < cyb> JAW: DROPPED
00:36 < rIO_sK> fuck!
00:36 < Cubed> !likes
00:36  * SceneSat sees that Cubed likes Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE – 8088 MPH!
00:36 < noby> ahh trixter you… trixter!
00:36 <+KamikaTze> Trollmaster 3000!!!
00:36 < Ham^Sfl> in fact, this 1-bit tune is awesome
00:36 < Ham^Sfl> !massive
00:36  * SceneSat agrees with Ham^Sfl that Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE – 8088 MPH is a MASSIVE tune!
00:36 < joga> i love the beeper
00:37 < Sofa6434> amazing
00:37 < noby> !like
00:37  * SceneSat sees that noby likes Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE – 8088 MPH!
00:37 < kowalski> !love
00:37 < AMiiiiiGAAAAA> terrible sound – but nice gfx
00:37  * SceneSat spots that kowalski simply loooooves Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE – 8088 MPH! Ah, l’amour!
00:37 < ne7> catching up now 😀
00:37 < ne7> !loves
00:37  * SceneSat spots that ne7 simply loooooves Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE – 8088 MPH! Ah, l’amour!
00:37 < Shad0w> i like the beeps
00:37 < cyb>
00:37 < Ham^Sfl> suddenly I wanna try this one on an old old PC
00:37 <+air2k^rev> bleepcore.
00:37 < rIO_sK> from a pc speaker this isn’t that bad  😀
00:37 < Sofa3554> !massive
00:37  * SceneSat agrees with Sofa3554 that Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE – 8088 MPH is a MASSIVE tune!
00:37 < sylto> oooooook
00:37 <+Urtie> I would straight up not have believed this if I saw this back then
00:37 < Ham^Sfl> 1-bit beepers is all you need
00:37 < cyb> how.the.fuck
00:38 < yessopie> greetz to the virgins who were ritually sacrificied to make this black magic possible
00:38 < Ham^Sfl> back to the past
00:38 <+anti_> I guess I’m already sleeping and this is only a dream…
00:38 < rIO_sK> yessopie: 😀
00:38 < sylto> how?
00:38 < HellMood> M A G I C 😉
00:38 <+anti_> hardware hack?
00:38 < noby> well.. 🙂
00:38 < HellMood> yep
00:38 < Ham^Sfl> 1-bit arppeggios sounds nice
00:38 < Sofa6434> hahaha
00:38 <+vscd[NPL]> nice gfx
00:38 <+KeyJ> I bet that most of these multicolor trick only work over composite
00:38 < pinchy> damn
00:38 < Ham^Sfl> KeyJ: sure
00:39 < yessopie> putting the color into color graphics adapter
00:39 <@[shd]> i gues something like changing the palette with everx x-th scanline
00:39 < AMiiiiiGAAAAA> the muzak is killing my nerves
00:39 <+KamikaTze> my ears hurts
00:39 < noby> KeyJ: that was listed in the platform details on the composlide indeed
00:39 <+Krill> cga over composite? o.O
00:39 < sylto> thanks for the explanation
00:39 < ne7> 🙂 u can do a lot with phasing sounds quick in 1bit 🙂
00:39 <+KeyJ> Krill: original CGA has a composite output
00:39 < platosha> is pal timing thing may be?
00:39 < kowalski> zx spectrum-like multicolor tricks? )
00:39 <+Harekiet_rev> !awesome
00:39  * SceneSat sees the awesomeness that Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE – 8088 MPH holds, according to Harekiet_rev!
00:39 <@s7evens> !like
00:39 < gizmo__> wtf
00:39  * SceneSat sees that s7evens likes Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE – 8088 MPH!
00:39 < Ham^Sfl> this one is really great
00:40 < ne7> insanely good hehe
00:40 < Ham^Sfl> !likes
00:40 < sw4mp> !insane.
00:40  * SceneSat sees that Ham^Sfl likes Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE – 8088 MPH!
00:40 < cyb> !awesome
00:40  * SceneSat sees the awesomeness that Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE – 8088 MPH holds, according to cyb!
00:40 < joga> !awesome
00:40  * SceneSat sees the awesomeness that Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE – 8088 MPH holds, according to joga!
00:40 <+Krill> KeyJ: wow, didn’t know. only know them with vga-style output
00:40 <+Krill> guess i’m too young 🙂
00:40 < FLD> !massive
00:40 < Sofa3554> I, for one, welcome our new 8088 overlords
00:40  * SceneSat agrees with FLD that Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE – 8088 MPH is a MASSIVE tune!
00:40 <+KamikaTze> S O U N D
00:40 < gizmo__> how is that even possible
00:40 < easy_john> awesome
00:40 < sylto> innovative and interesting, too 1337 for me
00:40 < pinchy> come on torus
00:40 < gizmo__> interlacing?
00:40 < pinchy> hehe
00:40 < rIO_sK> composite artifacts at their best…awesome
00:40 < FLD> man im glad i stayed up for the last entry 🙂
00:40 <@velo^aprx> http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=65336
00:40 < gizmo__> awesome
00:41 < Ham^Sfl> too much Alan Silvestri… GEMA alert!
00:41 < Ham^Sfl> 😀
00:41 < yessopie> Ham- I recognized that, too
00:41 <+vscd[NPL]> Seems they have computer which can beat our computers 😉
00:41 < platosha> hmm, artifacts…
00:41 < Sofa6434> 1bit musicdecoder
00:41 < Ham^Sfl> this is a great demo
00:41 < cyb> dosbox needs to be rewritten after this 😉
00:42 <+Harekiet_rev> well that was way more awesome then expected 🙂
00:42 < Sofa3554> !love
00:42 < anix> good shit
00:42  * SceneSat spots that Sofa3554 simply loooooves Hornet + CRTC + DESiRE – 8088 MPH! Ah, l’amour!
00:42 < gizmo__> wow wow wow
00:42 <+Harekiet_rev> noooo dosbox is fine….
00:42 < Ham^Sfl> I wonder if it would work on DosBOX (probably no)
00:42 < dexxo> great stuff, even with the pc speaker spasms
00:42 <+maep> ❤ virt
00:42 <+KeyJ> Ham^Sfl: no way
00:42 < joga> speaker’s supposed to taze you a bit
00:42 <+anti_> We talked about something like this before the BBSs started to die … I think … my brain … too long ago …
00:43 <+KeyJ> I would be totally surprised if that worked on ANY emulator, at all
00:43 <+vscd[NPL]> The last thing I made on my 8088 was Monkey Island 😉
00:43 < rIO_sK> Ham^Sfl: if I’m ight the trick isto use composite output artifacts, so i think not
00:43 < Ham^Sfl> KeyJ: they didnt emulate CGA to the required level
00:43 < noby> PEEEZEEEEE!
00:43 < corpsicle> nice
00:43 < wullon> Winner
00:43 < sylto> wowzerz
00:43 < scenept> brutal
00:43 <+KeyJ> Ham^Sfl: that (especially composite), and I guess they do some timing-sensitive stuff
00:43 < Ham^Sfl> great compos
00:43 <+OergWin98> Scgali: fucking great work
00:43 < joga> tight compos
00:43 < platosha> if it’s a pal encoding trick, i doubt dosbox would ever be capable to emulate it
00:43 <+OergWin98> you guys rock
00:43 < SaphirJD> holy hell, that one was epic
00:44 < gizmo__> fantastic
00:44 < legend_> epic compos
00:44 <+shaderpig> impressive!
00:44 < Piru> uh. compo overdose
00:44 <+KeyJ> racing the beam without interrupts = things gonna fuck up if the cpu speed is the slightest bit off
00:44 < Ham^Sfl> KeyJ: yeah
00:44 <+shaderpig> awesome compos today.
00:44 <+Harekiet_rev> the scroller texts were a bit unclear 😦
00:44 <+OergWin98> platosha: It somewhat emulates CGA color trickery, but surely not this awesome shit 😀
00:44 < ne7> fabulous 😀
00:45 < Salinga> awesome compos. 2015 was a VERY good year so far. 🙂
00:46 < [adam]> 🙂
00:46 < Raylight-PwL> Totally awesome!
00:46 < Cubed> Fantastic start, definitely feel inspired to make something now
00:47 < Sofa6434> Wondering if this can be topped in todays compoblock
00:47 < Toffeeman> Very good demos today.