Definatly makes him stand out and my ears prick up. What a legend.

What a narc saying "I" all the time SMH 😤😤

Awesome? It shouldn't be considered awesome. It should be considered valid. "Valid" has become a bit "extended" these days.

@@___joez Its not narcistic. Because he was one of the first doing this trick to get the last bit of performance out of the Hardware of that time. It was innovative.

@@lefthookouchmcarm4520 "Valid", meaning acceptable, or having a logically-sound foundation? "There's something acceptable about him saying 'I used'" doesn't give any of the same meaning as is implied by "awesome" (very good, worthy of respect, cool). Validity isn't even in question, or at all pertinent. The meaning OP was aiming for was something like "I consider the fact you can talk in 1st person about this to be good and cool". Validity is the barest passing grade for the ability to speak about something with a modicum of authority. These are in completely different categories of meaning. You might think calling it "awesome" is still over-stating the level of cool, but a more valid response to that is to offer a word lower in the same chain. Like how "good" is below "best" but still in the same chain of meaning. If I say something is the best and you disagree, you don't reply "Best? It shouldn't be considered the best, it should be considered correct" you reply instead "Best? It's good, sure, but the best? Really?". If you think I'm being a pedantic arse, well you started it.

It's a bit slow maybe. But that's more of a gameplay thing, or design. But oh the frames!

@@Okanekaseku You gotta remember I'm comparing this to things to the era, like Mario's original 3 frame run cycle.

Arguably more fluid than some run/walk cycles of *this* era.

But then the jump animation is non existing.

@@filevans Andy was the head designer that worked on this game.

really?! what mobile ports did you work on?

wouldn't it give you flickering or did you managed to draw it to a separate frame buffer before outputting it?

it's wild to think that before infinite ram and infinite disk space, programmers had to understand hardware. and programming.

@@bignope5720 Even nowadays there are limits, they are just different. They still need to understand programming, of course, but back then they had to master the hardware and very low level programming to make the games even open properly.

i know, i know, i'm just grumpy. and most programmers are very, very bad at their jobs.

​@@bignope5720 I think it's unfair to say most programmers are bad. Most games use such an insane amount of middleware that no programmer alive would be capable of optimizing it all.

modern games are still heavily limited by memory space, LOD, occlusion, and many other tricks are employed these days that would be considered "hacks".

You joke, but Valve used to publish occasional slideshows explaining some of their programming tricks, like how they made all the zombies in _Left 4 Dead 2_ unique despite the consoles' half-gig memory limits. I wish more contemporary developers did stuff like that.

@@stevethepocket Check out "classic game postmortem", some modern teams and many old developers.

"I downloaded a platforming character behavior from the Unity Asset Store..." Actually some of Naughty Dog's postmortems showcase how impressive their tech is, and how they use the much larger storage and memory available on newer systems to profound effect. Just the way Nathan Drake shifts his weight realistically when you make him change direction, for example, is very data intensive, and that's not even getting into things like how they simulated wet clothes or footprints in dirt/sand...

as if people will remember bluray, and one of those libraries has been compromised to steal passwords

@@stevethepocket what do you mean unique?

The folks who made the Amiga actually did the 2600 and Atari 8bit machines directly before moving onto the Amiga, so tricks carry over, which was probably helpful for developers. The Atari 8-bit computers are especially cool to look at as a sort of "proto-Amiga."

@@gargonovich Jay Miner en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Miner

So, given that the Atari 2600 was even capable of this, does that mean that pretty much any console could do roughly similarly in the right hands? I mean, as an example, could pretty much the same thing be done on SNES using say its HDMA and/or other methods too?

@@inceptional probably similar things could be done, if needed. Though each hardware has its own characteristics so they were probably solving different problems on the SNES.

@@gargonovich Yeah. There's, cross "pollination" of ideas and design to Atari Lynx and 3DO too (RJ Mical & Dave Needle).

Check out some of the latest Fairlight demos on the C64, it's mind blowing what they can do nowadays. From more than 16 colors to full top/bottom and left/right border graphics and amazing sound. Creativity and magic combined. :)

Are you kidding me. There are tremendous options from the low end to the Hi end with AI accelerated computing. You must have been asleep the last 10 years.

Yeah, computers were far more interesting in the 1980s and 1990s. Lots of unique and innovative quirky platforms. The convergence we have now is boring.

Im glad that Commodore officially died when it did. What's special about the Amiga is that it has its how style in graphics and sound. The games are what is important for me and I love Amiga games. If Commodore wouldn't had died, today the Amiga would be just another pc with 3d games and stuff and that special style, probably would be gone. But the Amiga is still alive, thanks to its amazing community. Have you played the Dread game demo?. Its a Doom clone that runs on a stock Amiga 500. Check it out.

@@RockTo11 yeah, same for consoles, nowadays architecturally they're either ARM (same CPU arch as your phone) or AMD64 (same as your PC), IMO the last interesting console gen was till PS3/X360 gen, when they user PPC

@@RockTo11 You people are kidding me. Would you rather have 20 slightly different machines that everyone needs to develop for, or alternatively consumers all have to individually buy just to have access to all games? Games being scattered across three consoles and PC is bad enough as it is.

you are what you eat

Watch some videos of people decommissioning 2008 blade servers - that will cheer you up

I think we Amigans need to wear white togas and laurel wreaths just to acknowledge our seniority - with dignity and highbrowed.

I wish I was dead

It's amazing what people hold on to. Some unreleased games get found in people's attics from 30 years ago on dusty development floppies and a Work in progress version of Sonic 1 was found recently after decades of finding nothing.

Isnt game devs being able to just make whatever they want and let their full ambitions become real instead of having to be real computer geniuses to make the absolute most out of incredibly limited hardware just to make certain basic ideas work properly a good thing?

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@@sethgob5591 Restrictions breed creativity. See Raiders of the Lost Ark vs Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls. I'm all for the conveniences of modern hardware and software, but being forced into thinking laterally often opens up new insights or forces you to figure out what really matters to a creative endeavor.

@@michaelcirco3948 "Raiders of the Lost Ark vs Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls" That is not a good example, as Lost Ark was already a big production, as it has the two biggest directors of its time behind it. Crystal Skulls wasn't bad because of the many available options, it was bad because Spielberg had lost his "fire". He later made "The Adventures of Tintin", which had less restrictions, as it is a computer animated movie, and it was WAY better than Crystal Skulls. Modern games offer a lot of ways for interesting gameplay and story telling, but nobody could create a game like GTA5 via low level logic. If you want big games that need a huge crew, you need to abstract the basic hardware. By the way, I'm sure the Lego games (which made TT games famous) and their engine aren't that different, or does anybody believe that the crew is doing every close to the hardware on multi plattform titles? :)

At the same time, not all game devs are genius programmers. Should their game ideas not be allowed to see the light of day?

Many of these developers are still there. ;-)

@@shred_ Amiga Forever!!

"Blah, blah, back in my day, the young don't appreciate anything, blah blah"

Hi. Yes, it was Ackerlight. I wonder how this modified/customized "Wild Copper" demo can pop up in this video ???

A lot of the games looked awesome too.

You could buy a MISTer FPGA and us that to simulate an Amiga with the Minimig core. The base DE10 board is around 150€ new.

Was. Very old now.

​@@funkykoval2099 Difference is that MISTer doesn't use emulation. The "cores" reprogram the FPGA module to recreate circuits of an Amiga board on an actual circuit level, So really, once the core has been loaded it's not really emulation anymore but an actual unit running at perfect timings. But sure, people need to ask themselves if they really need that kind of accuracy when we have cycle perfect emulation for the Amiga. I for one, use emulation primarily and whenever I need "true testing" during software development, I use real hardware. But generally. emulation covers 99% of my needs.

​@@funkykoval2099 Nheh. Emulation is great if all you want is to play the games. But I kinda wanted the feeling of messing with a vintage computer. The bulky tube monitors, the satisfying ka-chunk of a 3.5 Floppy Disk being inserted. The keyboard-thing-that-plugs-into-a-monitor form factor of those early computers that I wish hadn't gone away because it's a neat idea. I experienced vintage computing only through an MS-DOS machine back in the day. The Amiga and systems like it weren't really a _thing_ in my country.

Already did here - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h8ehbNmdy9WrnnU.html

Aaa... Voce precisava recorrer ao Paraguai ou aos contrabandistas. Tive a oportunidade de ter um A1200 naquela epoca. Troquei um 486 novinho por ele e nao me arrependi nem um pelo kkkk

Were MSX computer a thing in Brasil? Here in Europe they were common in Italy and Netherlands. Germany was Amiga-land, and the UK was the kingdom of ZX Spectrum.

@@gabrieleriva651 Yes, it was quite popular during the late 80s. Unfortunately, there never was a locally produced MSX2, but MSX1 upgrade kits were common

@@gabrieleriva651 Yeah! I had one. There were a couple of manufacturers making MSX models. I had one by Gradiente. And I believe they were all correctly licensed. Made popular by the easily “pirateable” game compilations on tapes. The ZX Spectrum was also popular, for the same reason and being cheaper. But these were clones (still considered better than the originals, with a proper mechanical keyboard).

@@Aeroman66 Vc morava no Sul?

He most likely doesn't have any. First of all it was coded by another person. Secondly and most importantly, none of the effects you see here are present. Don't get me wrong, it's competently coded, unlike SOTB, but it doesn't even have some raster bars as background. It does have smoothish horizontal scrolling so it's probably using some preshifting but that's about it.

A kryoflux board might help you - google what and how it does!

I imagine PC 98 eroge would also be perfect for this mode

IIRC, if you made the sprite multiplexing in software, you ended up with flashing sprites, but it was possible to have interrupt routine drive the positioning. Also, there was a pointer to the sprite to drawn, so dozens (hundreds?) of sprites could be sitting in memory and not needing to be redrawn.

Pre rendering is lame and I hate HAM . At least it put pressure on PCs to implement hicolor .. after the CDi and 3do .. Wing Commander III is a joke.

@@ArneChristianRosenfeldtHAM is Amiga's hicolor, it's what gave it an edge.

@@Foebane72 yeah, Amiga did not have a discrete RAMDAC like everyone else. Everyone else had to go through a palette. Why did RAMDACs not come with a bridge? Like collect RGB values and spit them out in low resolution. Would be great for painting, plasma and chunky doom. Why hold beyond this tripple? Just increase the clock in the next Amigas.

My question also!

It won't happen, because the camera is centered on the character at all times. But if the player could be elsewhere on the screen, you could draw either the character, or the background. Not both.

@@Dwedit What about non-player sprites like enemies?

As far as I know (experienced), exceeding the number of allowed sprites causes flickering (alternately displaying them).

@@ericBcreator I think exceeding the number of sprites simply causes the excess sprites to not display, and the flickering is a thing implemented by the game.

Yip the 040 and 060 refers to the higher end Motorola CPUs 68040 and 68060.

He wasn't in Psygnosis. He was in Travellers Tales. Psygnosis was just the distributor.

And that other game you mentioned is Bram Stocker's Dracula on SNES. It also is developed by Travellers Tales, so it seems they've reused some assets from Leander. 😉

@@alpyre Awesome, thank you for this :)

On SNES everything is once per scanline. Color and mode-7 . Same on GBA. Retarded.