Save The Earth (Atari STe demo)

[atari1040]

Hard to believe that first part is possible on STE!!! Is there more than 16 colors?

Anyway another cool one for my STE.

[Foebane72]

The first sampled tune was fine, but why in god's name does the rest of it have to devolve into that GHASTLY chip-music?

Oh no, wait, the STE can't play samples at different frequencies. xD

[Foebane72]

The first part is fake, the STE only has 16 colours at most, those look like some sort of HiColor pictures. FAAAAAKE!



[polog40Leics]

I'm about to write similar on my PIC/LED Matrix setup... Big influence... STE Blitter made graphics come to life.... 68000 beut

[TheROBLOXmaster1337]

A great demo!

[TahreyUK]

4:30 argh, what's the music? I know it, but will be going mad trying to remember all day now. It's not just the end of Think Twice and I'm just losing the plot, is it/am I?

And is that pseudo-Vista-desktop / typewriter IRC thing real, or something you coded up yourself for the demo? (hehe its got good ol' Bob Dobbs in it too)

[InvisibleSandwichTM]

@TahreyUK: I think it's an arranged version of "Magical Sound Shower" from Outrun, or at least the main motif from it.

[TahreyUK]

3:03 ... I love you :-D

[AGWhiteman]

Good to see that Youtube's video Codec can't handle and STe demo..... Kool Prod

[Pzkfw5]

Nice demo. Wish I knew more about pre Wintel computing. I can't help notice that you basically ripped an Anti-piracy commercial from Australia in the beginning sequence :P

[jbiddleston]

I noticed the Dr Dobbs in the chatroom scene.

Can't believe that this was hardwired into the keyboard map and ROMS of the Atari!!

Sacred Chaos!!

[BSRDefiance]

The best demo on Atari STe that I have seen!

No words to describe the feelings it creates... :'-)

Keep up the good work!

Just a small quote from it:

"So many colors at once, it nearly looks like an Amiga! Impressive no?

Nowadays, things are not that colorful anymore. Signs of maturity?"

[tosgem]

Already left a comment a couple of months ago, but just to let you know I've been back to watch again ;-)

[Dbhug]

Cool!

Doing a demo worth watching again is a rare feat :)

[AGWhiteman]

@Dbhug all ST demos are worth watching over again except bits

[doritostheking]

@Dbhug Could do without boring enviromental crap, but otherwise I liked it.

[CLS2086]

nice

[trophy242]

Great idea! I had a poster with "Arnie" also in my room when I was a child... It looked a little bit similar with my Atari ST on the desk back then... Except C++ books, of course - who thought about C++ at the end of the 80s? I have to buy "Arnie" poster again, I'll have everything: Atari STE, C++ books and PC with flat screen. Unfortunately, I cannot change the view from my window so easily :-) Just thoughts... Great work! Superb demo! I had a lot of fun watching this one.

[Dbhug]

Yeah, I was even looking at C as some kind of language that only pretentious people used, and sticked to my 68000assembler and GFA Basic :)

Glad you like the demo! Thanks for the comment.

[LeGlod]

2:19 multiple scrolling use HardScroll and Blitter ???

[Dbhug]

Only hardscroll.

Basically I implemented a display list system, for each line of the screen I can define a new adress, a fine scroll register location, and a palette definition.

I could have used the blitter to set the parameters of the display list, but it was fast enough with the cpu.

The source code is available in the archive on pouet, you can take a look if you want, and feel free to use it if you want - just give some credits somewhere and I'll be happy :)

[JigenD]

I like it. This should be a new genre of scene demos like all those ASCII graphics ones.

[rsedke]

respect to DBUG!

[cazzozzo]

Wow, f*kkin' awesome.

[artman40]

I think I recognize the Outrun theme near the end.

[Dbhug]

You are totaly right.

The music that starts when "enjoy the sound of the 80ies" is the intro music of the Union Demo, and the end music is from Outrun. Originally wanted to put it during the sequence with the truck, but the sequence was too short and the music too nice to be cut.

[AGWhiteman]

woo! /|\

[jacofwudsn]

The Schwarzenegger poster at 3:17 make this one simply great!

[Dbhug]

:)

The idea was to have the classic 80-90ies elements on the left side of the screen (terminator, atari, luxo lamp), and the 2000-2010 on the right side (flat screen, c++ books, demotivator poster with heroes, ...)

Glad you like it !

[tosgem]

very cool, original demo, long live the ste!!

[FirestarterFIN]

Enjoyed this one very much,thank you!

[C64BCOTW]

Excellent work Dbug! Congrats.

[Dbhug]

Glad you like it :)