Quarter Express - 256 bytes intro for Atari XL/XE by Ilmenit / Agenda

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3 жыл бұрын

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For Lovebyte party 2021, "Low-End 256 byte intro compo"
Requires Atari XL/XE OS Rev2
Code: Ilmenit, Train: Piesiu / Agenda '2021

Пікірлер: 35

@GordonFreemanC13 Жыл бұрын

They used to say for Atari: The power without the price...Really nice intro! Atari was very underrated besides C64 and ZX Spectrum at the time...

@WhiteFalconus Жыл бұрын

This is totally cool and sweet at the same time: many colors, parallax scrolling, clever use of sprites. And with sound. Even without the size limit this would be some feat. Awesome!

@KKAltair 3 жыл бұрын

One of the best 256's I've seen for this platform! :)

@SammYLightfooD 2 жыл бұрын

One of the most fun 256 bytes demos I've seen.

@ilmenit 2 жыл бұрын

thank you! :-)

@skipbreakfast 2 жыл бұрын

I honestly said "holy crap" out loud

@MorreskiBear 3 жыл бұрын

Video ended too soon - never found out where train was going

@paulkocyla1343 Жыл бұрын

Wow, voodoo magic! Hard to imagine how to squeeze this one into 256b.

@TheRealMrPeach 3 жыл бұрын

Impressive in 256 bytes.

@CheeseBallz420 3 жыл бұрын

Omg! How it's possible? Man you rock!

@ilmenit 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! A lot, lot of optimizations.

@st4849 3 жыл бұрын

This is so beautiful!

@PeranMe 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, that’s just plain awesome! Much respect!

@arnetrautmann9783 2 жыл бұрын

Funk me, that is awesome!

@kNeczpal 3 жыл бұрын

This makes me happy 😃

@GadZombie 3 жыл бұрын

Incredible!

@solsticeprojekt1937 2 жыл бұрын

Man, that creative thought nd skill to pull it off!

@Christian-Drackert Жыл бұрын

Klasse 😃

@philsan69 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@MrMarianoamigo 3 жыл бұрын

it has better graphic than 90% of on atari games:)

@virtuafighter3 3 жыл бұрын

I feel you may be right. I think colours vs high res maybe underrated

@Rewolwerpl 2 жыл бұрын

Look on Prince of Persia Atari version

@10p6 Жыл бұрын

Awesome

@KC9UDX Жыл бұрын

That must've taken a lot of eFFort.

@Prelmable 3 жыл бұрын

Choo choo

@spimfurt 3 жыл бұрын

no way! congratulation! smart use of $ in the smoke and i think +##D▲ .: in the body of engine? Never seen before using 1bit chars in 2bit mode and get benefit of it :)

@letMeSayThatInIrish Жыл бұрын

Next let's try 128 bytes 😄

@Noone-of-your-Business 2 жыл бұрын

I didn't know the XL/XEs had _this many colors. Why were they not much bigger in the gaming scene?

@ilmenit 2 жыл бұрын

Some games had (e.g. Alternate Reality, Rainbow Walker, Henry's House). Many programmers didn't know how to implement such effects (documentation was not often easily available), there were no good graphic tools for artist to prepare a multi-color graphics. If you'd like to see more about Atari XL/XE gfx capabilities then look at the results of my tool RastaConverter atariage.com/forums/topic/200118-images-generated-by-rastaconverter/

@pweddy1 3 жыл бұрын

Display List Interrupts in 256 bytes? That’s impressive.

@ilmenit 3 жыл бұрын

It's actually not DLI but the color changes are synchronized with the screen drawing (technique from A2600). Setting up DLI would be too big.

@sa3270 Жыл бұрын

I think the Atari 2600 could come close to generating this, except for the track detail.

@theannoyedmrfloyd3998 3 жыл бұрын

Think you could pull this off using the Atari 2600?

@ilmenit 3 жыл бұрын

Probably not, but I have limited knowledge of A2600. The background (sky and ground colors) could be quite similar. The clouds and the plant are sprites (players) and they could be done, but with bit more code. The track is in graphics mode and is using hardware scrolling and I think this is missing on A2600. Also the train is done in 5 color text mode which is missing on A2600 - would have to be done differently there.