Save The Earth (Atari STe demo)

The Atari STe was released by Atari in the year 1989.
This demo is an happy birthday for the 20 years anniversary.

Nothing brain-blasting technically, lot of graphics, some nice music, tried to get a story line instead of just a succession of disjointed effects. Hopefully you will find it funny and interesting, and the few of you who never seen an Atari STe will have a chance to see what it looks like - both inside and outside.

You can download the executable program that runs on a real STe (or MegaSTe) on Pouet.net:
http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=54106

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Film & Animation

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• Atari
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• Kindergarden

[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 :)

[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 :)

[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!

[InvisibleSandwichTM]

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

[doritostheking]

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

[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)

[TahreyUK]

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

[AGWhiteman]

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

[AGWhiteman]

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