Split Personality

From the commodore 64 demo "Before you go"
by Internal Affairs and Paradize.
Featuring *vertical* split-screen and a 40-character scroller *in* the lower border.
Code and music by me. Graphics by someone else.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• c64
• demoscene
• retro

[tpc1971]

Brings back memories looking at this :-) Those dudes in Paradize sure knew how to code!

[oksel]

They sure did :) But just for the record, this part was not coded by Paradize ;)

[tpc1971]

Lol.. i remember it beeing Paradize, suppose after all those years my memory got it wrong :)

[oksel]

Well this is one part in a coop demo between IA and Paradize, this being a part by IA (of which I was a part at the time)

[madmomentsgo]

cool,i thought this was david whittakers music.

[oksel]

It IS lowres sprites, but if you look closely the leftmost and rightmost column of pixels in every char hires (1px) and the pixels in between are stretched (2px). That's because I blocked the big pixels left and right with a mask of vertical black lines using a $3fff pattern.

[omhgs]

How DID you get a 40 char scroller in the lower border? :-)

Is it just sprites (low resolution) or is it possible to do high res in lower border?

[oksel]

That's a secret :) Well the left half is characters, the right is (multiplexed) sprites. If you look closely the right image has one color less, which had something to do with weird VIC behaviour making it necessary to sacrifice one color.

Now aren't you going to ask how I got a 40 characters scroller in the lower side border? :)

[swordstick]

Very nice production. How is that vertical split-screen done?

[fthaimike]

kitcar this is a c64 mind so credit where due