Atari 8 Bit Demos - Drunken Chessboard - Infinity

[ClOuDsTaR159]

I love this demo. I could've sworn the music was a little faster, but maybe it's just me.

[tronsolarsailor]

The 80's computers had something that hasn't today PC's....personality.

[VectorOmega]

Can the music for this demo be redone with 'orchestra style' music? (Also: coming soon to a theater near you, "Drunken Chessboard: The Live Stage Musical" based on Infinity's hit animation and sound adventure!)

[jormangundi]

2:12 \,,/

[Snybi]

MInd = BLOWN

[CrudOMatic]

I'd like to see this ported to a 7800 cart w/ a pokey embedded. I know there would be less colors, but it uses a scanline engine too - and you could add an extra 2 channels of sound from the TIA.

[leonguy1]

strangely hypnotizing :O

[ImIndoPeople]

atari is legend!!

[SOPM2007]

Amazing! Imagine what actual hardware could do IF we would use it the way it were used at that time where programmer really explored its limits!

[VectorOmega]

Would this animation have worked as a Sesame Street shapes segment?

PS. Still waiting for the VBXE updated version. Anyone wanna have a shot at "Drunken Chessboard 2.0 - VBXE Special Edition"?

[OneEyedJack1970]

Man, these old 8-bits can just about give DirectX a run for it's money.

[SuperAudioboy]

awesome demo. just shows what a humble 8 bit can do. these programmers are outstanding. i own most 8 bit machines and xl/xe are my firm faves. i also like c64 and speccy. pokey sound is fantastic if programmed properly. just listen to international karate for one example. its excellent.

[royaleplace]

it's not a 8 bit atari

[AmstradExin]

What is it then? a 9 bit atari? :D

[xam714]

lols

[Thorsupremecommander]

you're wrong. it is :)

[SoloKazama]

X-Ray - author of this music - made in during copy party. Fox - auhtor of code - was finishing it on ~4" tv screen. :D.

[fox6502]

Actually it was 12" black-and-white monitor. :)

[Ogma01]

The music is excellent...  Is there an MP3 of this anywhere?

[gclark03]

Good music, but it also demonstrates just how poor POKEY's intonation really is. That, and the shallow sound of the high register, is one of the only reasons why the SID is praised as much as it is.

[gamein60seconds]

But it also demonstrates how few colours the C64 had ;)

[zaphodb777]

Alas, but if you are willing to sacrafice 2 pokey channels for 1, one can have up to 2 channels with a frequency range that is 1.79 MHz down to about 14 Hz. (Depending on the clock you choose.) I once sent a morse code radio signal from the monitor port audio output to a radio across the house listening on 890 KHz (with BFO), by just pulsing the pokey and the divider set to 1 on 1.79 MHz clock.

Try that with SID.

[avensis77]

Reaally cool demo. I remember the non-transparent 3d graphics ran at 50fps. Music is also one of the best.

[boing4000]

one of the best 8bit atari demos I have ever seen (as an amiga user). amazing!

[gamein60seconds]

What's even more amazing is the fact that a lot of the chessboard is just a whole mess of DL and VB interupts - the 8bit can't normally have more than one background colour in that resolution.

[GOTHMIDNIGHTMERMAID]

I think I'm going to get dizzy after watching this! xD

[rootbrian]

I can't imagine this running on a 1MHz machine... Amazing!!

[BarrySlisk]

@rootbrian

Truely amazing!!

[RABBIDGamfan]

@rootbrian That's because this is running on a 2MHz machine.

[CrudOMatic]

@rootbrian The Atari computers were damn good.

[toptenmaterial]

this music is sick and this demo is so ahead of it's time

[skipbreakfast]

and how. this music is rather sick, indeed.

[rogerjowett]

anyone seen any sam coupe demos?

darn good though pity the video is not as good as seeing it in an emulator surely all the 'messy' video would dissappear

anyone seen mb-02= demos on spectrum

[zaphodb777]

Imagine if Jay Miner were head of R&D for AMD/ATI just what sort of machines we'd have today. Pity he died. He's still the best chip designer there ever was... as witnesed by this demo running on 1982 hardware.

[ET22RULZ]

Wspaniałe demko z którym zapoznał mnie Ś.P. Jaras K.

R.I.P.