Great demo. My 520 STFM had a shifter chip problem and couldn't run overscan demos. I felt I was missing out so much I sold it and got myself a 4MB 520 STE.
for those who don't know the Atari ST. It is technically impossible to put grafics in the border (that the the black area which is around the grafics in the beginning).
OK, it *was* technically impossible.
Same as it was impossible to do more than 4 sprites, more than 16 colors, scroll the whole screen or play digital multichannel sound.
And today? No more challenges like this. Life has become dull.
@Gunstick I agree. With "fixed" hardware coding was much more challenging. You had to get the most out of the hardware you had. Nowadays, with PC, games coders/designers just think "Well, if it doesn't run, it doesn't matter, they can just buy a faster processor/better gfx card/more ram". There's no emphasis on optimisation
I always regarded this as the best ST demo screen, not the prettiest or best design, but just something about it that I always loved
notdavesmith 2 years ago 2
Music ripped from Rebels Amigademo.
"Rebels Megademo (Amiga) Part 6 - Sin-o-delic"
I always liked the Atari Amiga wars back in the day. I wish I had seen more Atari demos.
tubeMonger 2 years ago
nice !
nlex 3 years ago
Great demo. My 520 STFM had a shifter chip problem and couldn't run overscan demos. I felt I was missing out so much I sold it and got myself a 4MB 520 STE.
viking272 3 years ago
ziggy... le meilleur...
et la nostalgie du ST
Une superbe epoque !!!
zespidey 3 years ago
Ziggy rulez.
tomconte 4 years ago 3
for those who don't know the Atari ST. It is technically impossible to put grafics in the border (that the the black area which is around the grafics in the beginning).
OK, it *was* technically impossible.
Same as it was impossible to do more than 4 sprites, more than 16 colors, scroll the whole screen or play digital multichannel sound.
And today? No more challenges like this. Life has become dull.
Gunstick 4 years ago 8
are you Gunstick from UCM !!
cool :) hello from Singapore !
turbolenza35 2 years ago
@Gunstick I agree. With "fixed" hardware coding was much more challenging. You had to get the most out of the hardware you had. Nowadays, with PC, games coders/designers just think "Well, if it doesn't run, it doesn't matter, they can just buy a faster processor/better gfx card/more ram". There's no emphasis on optimisation
MrAsrgr 1 year ago
Nop integrator rulzzzz ;)
asm0rod 4 years ago
A significant number of fullscreens on the ST have been written without any special integration tool (like 100% of fullscreens by NeXT)
Dbhug 3 years ago
i like this one too. its good. i like the music
shanebongos 4 years ago