before zx spectrum pixel shader deer prototype

A while back people started remaking old computer games but with modern snazzed up graphics. What i wanted to see though was new modern games but with old resolution graphics. Particularly the colour clash from the zx spectrum. So i started programming stuff. one problem i had was redrawing the screen and still getting a decent frame rate. I got my brother to write a dll but still only got up to 21 frames a second. i concluded i would need to learn to write pixel shaders but that came later

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• zx
• spectrum
• speccy
• pixel
• shader
• dark
• basic
• deer

[kotowate]

It is amazing but it could look even better if, for example would match red and green colours - it would be painful for shader to analyze 8x8 square to determine two best colours but hey, it would look great :)

[CHIPF0RK]

@kotowate

Thanks Kotowate. your right, converting colours on the fly is hard. i played around with my own colour spaces but i could no way match someone like lcds spectrum image converter. i made a realtime spectrum video converter but the results were poor. the system i used here uses the rgb channels on the textures to set the foreground colour, background colour and which one to use. the shader just picks the colours from the top corner to use on the next 64 pixels.

Nice spiders by the way.

[Glumglufs]

What hardware was this on?

[CHIPF0RK]

its running on a fairly recent pc with windows 2000 and an amd athlon. the later stuff i did with pixel shaders needs a graphics card with direct x 9c. sorry if i didnt make it clear in the discription. its not on a spectrum. thanks for watching.

[AsgardianBeing]

The spectrum colour style makes it look artistic!!

[bogercs]

Oh deer, what can the picture manner be?

[Carbon657]

Poor thing its all pixelated, shoot it

[joe9songs]

If wow was on the spectrum it would look like this - especially that night elf forest area ^^

[edzzzwin]

Lol, nice project. But what's the point?

[gombabacsi]

hahaha incredible

how many z80 megaherzes needs this ?

[mariomacius]

Fake

[Abrimaal]

Incredible, but better if the second colour of the deer was black, not white.