FairLight - No sprites (C64 Demo

Released: 17/12/2023
Credits:
Code: Trident
Music: Fegolhuzz
Graphics: tNG
Video capture: Pitcher
Download/Vote: csdb.dk/release/?id=237745

[@StefKrie]

Another premium tune by “Chiptune Maestro“ Fegolhuzz! Impressive visuals as well!

[@NotaWizard]

Wow. My jaw is on my lap. Trident is a true Master of the Raster.

[@PSL1969]

Ok. that's VERY cool! 👀😎

[@colinthomson7518]

brilliant music and demo

[@roelandbrink1345]

Awesomesauce !

[@FairLight1337]

You might also want to watch the interview with Trident to see him explain the sorcery behind each of the parts

[@DaEnemy]

What a tune!!! Big ups for this fabulous release ❤

[@FairLight1337]

I wasn't part of it and I am of course biased, but I agree it's brilliant!

[@sachy6239]

Mind-blowing stuff! Again. Respect! =)

[@brianstuntman4368]

To be this good takes.....perfect timing😮

[@FairLight1337]

Technically challenging...

[@JestersDeadUK]

Beautiful stuff!!!

[@urukh]

amazing as always!!!

[@deathybrs]

Dayum!

[@MrGareth1973]

Great!

[@espenskog8745]

I bet Trident has had dreams of raster bugs many many moons after this demo was coded ;-) Awesome routines!

[@FairLight1337]

There will be more details on this demo in the near future :)

[@TheRealCheesemaker]

Älskar små pilliga pixlar!

[@Serious_Drinking]

F**** impressive! How in the vertical scroll in the end done? Chars? Bitmap?

[@serato_fig]

My guess: changing the idle byte each line on a consistent cycle boundary, using the border to cover the repetitions.

[@joecincotta5805]

Accurate Color Changes on d020 and ghostbyte jiggles per line to get the gradient. Soooper impressive. The smooth edge sinus is absolute cycle mastery. This demo is nuts.

[@jasperd.5734]

No chars, bitmaps OR sprites were used in this demo…

[@TheHollermann]

Can you share what capture hardware was used for this video? It seems 100% frame accurate which is a big deal! On top of the demo ofcourse :)

[@FairLight1337]

Of course Pitcher here, here's a quick run down, some has been trial and error, some has been disappointed purchases. Real C64c, SIDfx fitted with dual switchable sids (8580 & 6581), drive wise using a 1541 ultimate mark2 cartridge. S-video out to a Framemeister upscaler, then runs to an Elgato game capture device, before going to OBS studio on an Alienware laptop that does the hardware encoding via a NVIDIA gfx card. That and alot of help from tNG with specific encoding values.

[@TheHollermann]

@@FairLight1337 thank you! Which elgato if i may ask? Hd60 and camlink 4k did not work on mac.

[@TheHollermann]

I mean did not capture frame accurate

[@FairLight1337]

@@TheHollermann hd60 here I use, but I've also tried and still own an Avermedia unit.

[@skalt711]

How is overlapping done in 0:55? o_o

[@FairLight1337]

Run in Retro debugger and let me know what you think :)

[@skalt711]

@@FairLight1337 Ahah, I'll look at it another time lol. Gonna do a writing task soon, but thanks for the tip!

[@BillAnt]

Done with raster and bitmap manipulation?

[@FairLight1337]

No bitmap. This is colour registers, gjostbytea and the get dot bug only

[@BillAnt]

​@@FairLight1337- Nice! :) You mean ghostbytes and the gray dot bug right?

[@johnsmith1953x]

*Is this really no SPRITES in this demo?!?!*

[@FairLight1337]

Yepp - that's true. Amazing, isn't it?

[@johnsmith1953x]

@@FairLight1337 Most definitely!! There's a scene in GoodWill Hunting where the professor tells the genius kid that there is only a handful of people in the world that truly understands how remarkable his solution to a problem is. Unfortunately, this is true here too. Quite astonishing!! Timing is genius! No copper, 8 bit, 998 Khz chip!!

[@FairLight1337]

Indeed :)

[@PooperScooperTrooper]

I'd love to run this on my c64. You got a .tap file?

[@FairLight1337]

Theres a disk image available here: csdb.dk/release/?id=237745

[@villehursti]

How? :D

[@FairLight1337]

Sorcery and black magic :) Colours in the colour registers, colour memory, all spiced up with ghost byte