Vintage 3D comptuer graphics, Amstrad CPC-6128

[ochgottnochma]

when i see this, i want to be a rich instance of myself living in the 70' with a day like: sleep, eat, researching and learning, sleep, ...

[philiptwood]

Those Z80 chips could do some outstanding things if you know how to use them.

[PLeChuck23]

That is absolutely AWESOME! This is one step away from being Dead Space 3! Now do it so we can look through the window of the house and see a girl showering ...

[Raptorel]

Do you use comtemporany 3d software now? I mean, if you do, then you must be great starting wayyyy back when you did.

[peterwilson69]

@Raptorel I use OpenGL these days. I'd like to think I use it a bit better than many others thanks to my knowledge gained from rolling my own 3D engine in software. My early attempts (in the video above) were very crude and I barely understood the mathematics.

[Raptorel]

@peterwilson69 OpenGL? Isn't that more of an environment of 3d than a "software" in it's own rights? You know, like Maya, Max, Vue, ZBrush and so on?

[peterwilson69]

@Raptorel OpenGL is the underlying 3D engine used by many other products. I use 3DStudioMax mostly and Maya sometimes.

[fabianfucci]

Damn at that time I was trying to do the same with a Z80. Unluckily, the only machine around my place was a Spectrum, we never saw an Amstrad. :(

Good job, looks good!

[Till113]

I like this machine!

[innsmouth]

amazing : )

[fusionvillage]

hey quite fluid!!! it was not in basic, was it?

[peterwilson69]

@fusionvillage Programmed in Basic, however I purchased a $2500 video camera (around 1992) and used stop-motion video-capture to produce the video. From memory it took about 3 seconds to draw each frame.

[asgerms]

At first I thought "Oh! He figured out how to do hidden-line-removal way back THEN...", but the flight/rotation revealed the "truth". Still, nice going...

[perplexedmoth]

This is great, you've got any demo releases?

[xeirwn]

interesting...

where can we download this for emulator use?

[peterwilson69]

Nowhere yet. I'm in the process of ordering new drive belts for my Amstrad so I can copy my old software to a normal PC for emulator use.