Atari ST / STE demoscene... ovvero: "I limiti sono fatti per essere superati!"

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"Amberstar 2: Dungeon-Demo" per Atari ST

Ambermoon (1993 - http://thalion.exotica.org.uk/games/...mbermoon2.html -), seguito di Amberstar (1992 -Amiga, Atari ST, PC MS-DOS-) e secondo capitolo della mai completata "Amber Trilogy", è un tecnicamente ambizioso RPG "2D & '3D'" sviluppato da Thalion per Amiga.

Ebbene in una prima fase Thalion aveva pianificato anche il rilascio delle versioni Atari ST e PC MS-DOS, iniziando perlatro lo sviluppo del gioco proprio dai 16-bit Atari. Il filmato di cui sopra documenta il funzionamento su ST del relativo 3D engine di Michael Bittner ( http://thethalionsource.w4f.eu/Bilde...on_Preview.zip )

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Ancora "Bad Apple!!" e ancora su Atari STE... questa volta nella "Progressive Scan Edition"

"[...] This is just a changed version of the ST port released recently.

Pros and cons compared to interlaced (original) version:

+ No interlace artifacts (yay, no more yucky mouse teeth)
+ Higher framerate in a way (30p feels smoother than 30i)
- Higher file size for video data
- Smaller horizontal resolution (160 instead of 320)
- More inefficient (lots of relative indexing with x(An,Dn) to double pixels which is slow). You can see/hear the desync in some parts, although the program will try to catch up.


Video:

あにら/ニコニコ動画

Audio:

"Bad Apple!!"
Album: Exserens
Artist: Masayoshi Minoshima
Vocals: Nomico
Alstroemeria Records"

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Ancora "Bad Apple!!"... ma questa volta su Atari STE in versione "interlacing"

"The total size is ~6.5 MB for the program (.PRG, the video :RLE and audio .PCM), so it won't fit on a floppy. Your best bet is to run it off a hard drive. It's tested on the Hatari GEMDOS disk feature with the files on the virtual disk root (as in C:\), but should probably work on ACSI disks too just fine.

Recorded on PAL TOS 2.06 (UK version), also tested on NTSC TOS 2.06 (US version). Works fine on both, and should have practically perfect audio/video sync in both too.

Complaints:
?: The audio quality sounds bad
!: Accidentally recorded with a tiny audio bitrate. It sounds better than in this video.

?: Interlacing effects are pretty bad
!: I use weaving to deinterlace, and because it's only 30 fields per second, there's noticeable artifacts.

I also made a progressive scan version that doesn't have interlacing artifacts, but has some other drawbacks. [...]

Video:

あにら/ニコニコ動画

Audio:

"Bad Apple!!"
Album: Exserens
Artist: Masayoshi Minoshima
Vocals: Nomico
Alstroemeria Records"

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SaboTagE by Paradox (Atari STE)

http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=67052

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Ooh Crikey Wot a Scorcher by The Lost Boys, 1991 | Complete Atari ST Demo / 1080p

("old-school" -1991- ma tecnicamente quanto mai apprezzabile, soprattutto se si considera che gira su tutti gli Atari ST, richiedendo solo 512 kB di RAM)

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1044

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Amiga games CD 1 music disk for Atari ST (Amiga Protracker MOD music "replayed" a 17 KHz su Atari ST)

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ParaDis3 - Parallax Distorter by Dyno (Atari ST 128k intro - 2° classificata all'ST News International Christmas Coding Convention -STNICCC- 2015 - categoria "128 Kb Commodore 128 Times Revisited competition")

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=66713

http://demozoo.org/productions/151594/

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Altre demo (la seconda è incentrata sull'audio -notevole la chiptune di Frank “Tao” Seemann-), questa volta per Atari ST "STandard" (STF / STFM), presentate all'STNICCC 2015:

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=66712

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=66715

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We Were @ di Oxygene - (Atari STE demo - STNICCC 2015 - dicembre 2015; vincitrice della competizione megademo tenutasi appunto in occasione dell'ultimo STNICCC; requisiti: Atari STE con 4 MB di RAM -520/1040 STE espansi o Mega STE 4-)

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=66702

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Sweetness Follows by KÜA (Atari STE demo -attenzione: quì i limiti sono auto-imposti, visto che la demo è stata realizzata durante una one-bitplane demo competition-)

"The compo rules stated;
- Two colours on the screen, should be the same colours throughout the demo
- One channel music

And, the best rule of them all;
- You may break any rules"

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La versione 1.9.0 dell'emulatore Hatari ( http://download.tuxfamily.org/hatari..._windows64.zip ) ha una 32k intro davvero... "bestiale" ... che gira in emulazione Atari STE

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=66364

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Atari ST demo - Pulse by Checkpoint (agosto 2015)

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=66192

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Atari STE demo - Grotesque by Omega (perfetto per un rave! )

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=15386

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Atari STE demo - Illusion demo by NeXT ( http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=60176 )

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Atari STE - Dynamite music demo by Unit 17 (musica polifonica sample-based -via STE DMA chip- su 8 canali con frequenza di campionamento a 25 KHz)