Starstruck by The Black Lotus - Atari Falcon version

The recently released conversion of Starstruck by The Black Lotus for the Atari Falcon.

Requires the CT60/63 68060 accelerator expansion board to run. This is the final version of the demo, which I believe has yet to be released on the Amiga. There are a couple of effects which are not implemented in the Amiga version as of yet. Look at the lighting on the robotic spider scene as an example.

This conversion benefits from the use of SD-RAM on the CT60/63, the Falcon's faster bus speed and the superior DSP based sound system for audio decoding, which eases the strain put on the 060 (0% CPU utilization for audio decrunching and playback).

Admittedly this video was leeched from a website and originally captured at 50fps, so no doubt Youtube encoding will kill this. I placed this here as no one else seems to have done this yet, so If you are the author and would like this removed so you can upload your own then please let me know.

Enjoy...

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• tbl
• starstruck
• atari
• falcon
• 68060
• ct60
• ct63
• black
• lotus
• amiga
• aga

[makrisj]

Well, good for atari!!! no blitter but still impressive!

[EvilFranky]

@makrisj The Falcon does have a blitter.

[EskyHunter]

"Requires the CT60/63 68060 accelerator expansion board to run." -> Are you sure? Maybe it would be able to run on my 68040 accelerated Falcon too?! (32 Mhz 68040 CPU, 50 Mhz DSP, 48 MB FastRAM) O.o

[EvilFranky]

@EskyHunter Well I'm fairly sure as I believe it requires some specific 060 instructions on the Atari version. But I could be wrong :)

[EskyHunter]

@EvilFranky Ah, okay! I had a try with it on the 040 but I was nut lucky. :( But I ran the Ocean Machine demo successful on the 040 Falcon. :)

[EvilFranky]

@EskyHunter Really? Excellent! How well did it run?

[JohanKH]

Silly to fight Amiga vs Atari up to date. Both are from the golden era of computers and electronics and I doubt we will ever get back :(. Time will tell.. Most exciting stuff now seem to be javascript applications for the iPhone .. Great demo, great Atari version, great music, great group, great scene.

[blade004]

I owned and used Amiga's from 1990 till the year 2000 and then after stopping for about 6 years i got my A1200 030@50 fired up again :)

But as big of an Amiga fan that i am and have always been i will concede and accept the fact that the Falcon was superior to the Amiga 1200 and i realised this at the time of the Falcon's release, actually so much so that i shit myself from what could have been some really stiff competition from Atari!

The Falcon was a great machine.

[karadok666]

@makrisj The Falcon comes with a blitter. But what has a blitter to do with 3D grafix? :D :D

[makrisj]

@EvilFranky good to know, thanks!

[xnonsuchx]

@deepblue69uk - To be fair, Commodore-Amiga purposely lowered the CPU clock to simplify video synchronization w/o using multiple clocks. It woulda been nice if they gave users the option of using a video-synced clock vs. a full speed CPU clock if they didn't need the video sync...the only reason some games perform a little better on an ST. I only really got a ST because of the built-in MIDI (as MANY musicians did).

[SHINOBHS]

GREAT STUFF

[surfitlive]

@EvilFranky OK, don't know why I couldn't see this before but I did side by side compare &found this; Opening credits; scroll different speed/position to backdrop Crazy Spastic Text; different text/pages/color *Floating girl; zoomed out view,machine in center *Robot crawl; lighting/shading when on wall Mountains; coloration? Scrolling 'explaination' text; uses a different font. *Neuron display; signal traveling to pulsating tips *Ending; More crows WISHLIST; More Cowbell in music ( ;

[EskyHunter]

@EvilFranky: I made a video of the ocean machine demo running on my 68040 Falcon. You´ll find it in my YouTube video collection. :-)

[EskyHunter]

@EvilFranky: Well, some secenes can´t be called smooth, looking more like a slide-show. O.o I will make a video of it. Be prepared. :-)