BAD AON - Bad Apple on four old phones with 7-segment displays

[@flmalegre]

The fact that you figured out how to display it and you went and did it perfectly makes me irrationally angry. You fucking genius you.

[@pichi__]

we will never run out of things to display bad apple on

[@hawthornrabbit]

This must be Bad Apple with insect vision, I freaking love it!

[@Mixi1]

Damn, the KZbin recommendations do be slapping some times. Nice job!

[@sergioelisondo]

Absolutely loved it! 🔥 Snapshots of the process at the end was neat to see 🤙

[@earthboiproductions2407]

This is insane. Why doesn’t this have more views?

[@the_mariocrafter]

At one point it displayed “2024” near the bottom right corner.

[@frog58079]

Request version for 8 AONs for better resolution :)

[@shiru8bit]

I experimented with the number of displays at first, and came to conclusion that at least 16 is needed (2x8 chunks), but 64 is better (4x16). I believe it would be still possible, but insanely tiresome to get it all captured and synced up. I had a lot of trouble with just four so far. But yeah, maybe sometime I'll give it another go!

[@GabrieleSvelto]

Fantastic

[@JimLeonard]

Congrats on the win!!!

[@shiru8bit]

Thanks! Actually didn't expect it, there were many cool wild entries!

[@JimLeonard]

@@shiru8bit Even better!

[@csolisr]

How did you manage to dim each subsegment of the LCD so precisely, by the way?

[@jp2en]

pwm?

[@shiru8bit]

Software PWM indeed, 2-bit brightness per segment. The mux rate here is 2160 Hz, i.e. 9 digits * 60 frames per seconds * 4 (the animation itself is at 30 FPS, tho). It helped a lot compared to just 1-bit, introduced a kind of a magic feel.

[@csolisr]

@@shiru8bit I recently learned that the original Game Boy did its grayscale, er, greenscale using a variant of PWM as well. Interesting to see it in action to this date!

[@JimLeonard]

I had a feeling you'd have to do software PWM. Hooray for analog :⁠-⁠)

[@orjis]

Magic

[@charliegirl6]

Beautiful. Spectacular. Amazing

[@Zoomer.88]

That bass though!

[@King_Nugget1]

This should not be as much of a banger as it is, look what they did to my boy he's the million dollar man!

[@Wii1235]

I cant imagine these phones being that much more powerful than a 48K Speccy. They both use Z80 processors and i cant imagine these have more ram than the Speccy (if these arent modified with more ram). Is it possible that this could be ported to a 48K ZX Spectrum? (Maybe even a 16K one?)

[@shiru8bit]

They're a bit faster (4 MHz), but there is only 2K RAM. Demo uses a 64K ROM, tho, which was a regular feature for these. Yes, it is possible to port it to a 48K Spectrum, but don't forget, there is four phones, so 64K*4 = 256K ROM in total. So either four 48K Spectrums, or an expanded model. It may get sqeezed into 128K with a bit of extra compression, though.

[@Wii1235]

@@shiru8bitMakes sense. Although, wouldnt it also be possible to split the animation into 3 parts? As you said, it could be possible to compress it to 128K and 3 X 48 is 144

[@shiru8bit]

@@Wii1235 yes, it is possible to split it into parts. Not makes much sense for a viewer, though, to play a 4 minute song in 4 separate loads. It has been done before, though, with one of the Sega Genesis Bad Apple renditions that came as two separate 4M ROMs.

[@Wii1235]

@@shiru8bittrue. Another option could be to reduce the frame rate to something around ~15FPS and to have really simple audio. Any option would still be impressive since it would be running on one of the cheapest computers from 1982

[@vamastah1737]

Great :)

[@greenscreen5994]

Wow just wow🤩

[@SamsungPhone-bd9ge]

sik entry. mad respekt

[@justAlexander]

Мммм. z80! Примерно с 1:32 музыка стала заметно отставать от "видео". Но все равно, круто!

[@FLDE]

This is sick! How do you make the music for this?

[@shiru8bit]

I actually did it in a modern way, with Reaper and a couple of my custom VSTs that then exported the music data in an appropriate format.

[@xproot0]

Isn't it actually an 8 segment display due to the comma?

[@shiru8bit]

Mathematically yes, but traditionally it is called 7-segment, because there is a different type of display actually called 8-segment one (with an extra vertical segment inside the 8 shape).

[@xproot0]

@@shiru8bit 7+1 segment then? Still more resolution!

[@v3tritium582]

Звук кайфовый получился

[@Hysteria98]

H-how? 🤯

[@ToxaKolganov]

Порт DOOM уже на подходе? )

[@shiru8bit]

Данное творение родилось из шуточного комментария, что, мол, а теперь покажи Bad Apple на АОНе. И я DOOMаю, что-то, что можно описать как DOOM, тоже вполне возможно! Спасибо за идею!

[@ilich650]

Изюмительно!

[@muchkaev]

это какой-то.... АОН

[@zonderzoldaten]

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