sometimes99er Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 (edited) Waving gently in the wind ... Edited April 4, 2018 by sometimes99er 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariK2 Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Very nice -- soothing -- almost hypnotic if you stare at it long enough! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocky007 Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 are you german ? very nice 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted April 5, 2012 Author Share Posted April 5, 2012 Thanks. Nope, I'm Danish. Did the Danish flag a year or so ago in assembler with 16 pixel resolution sine wave using much the same technique, though this one is only 8 pixels, just up and down and no vertical bar (chose German flag because it's easier - and close by). With a little more effort, I think the XB demo can be made sine wavish without loosing speed in the end presentation. Loosing the "math" and using just raw data would probably also speed up the initialization - might add a bit in size, might loose and add in flexibility, but perhaps also a bit more boring programming wise. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Sometimes, what software do you use to produce your animated GIF images? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted April 6, 2012 Author Share Posted April 6, 2012 Grapping the TI screen from Classic99 and outputting a GIF animation is done using Camtasia Studio 5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 Thanks. I had a look at the price and nearly had a heart attach In the end I settled for something called Cropper, which does the job and is free. See the results here! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted April 6, 2012 Author Share Posted April 6, 2012 (edited) Looks good. From time to time there's a nice one at giveawayoftheday.com, perhaps not latest or pro versions, but at least not trials. Edited April 6, 2012 by sometimes99er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted March 8, 2015 Author Share Posted March 8, 2015 (edited) Did the Danish flag a year or so ago in assembler with 16 pixel resolution sine wave using much the same technique, ... Here's a gif of that old one: Was looking into adding more flags, and actually found different aspect ratios (height to width ratio) with for example the Danish flag being rather squarish with a rather thin cross, the Swedish's longer with a more fat cross, and then the Finnish is even longer and fatter, - so much that I have to compensate on the character cell level (8 pixel precision) to get an okay feel - now that I know. Never thought it would come to that. Edited March 8, 2015 by sometimes99er 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 Nice flag demo! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
am1933 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 Here's a gif of that old one: Was looking into adding more flags, and actually found different aspect ratios (height to width ratio) with for example the Danish flag being rather squarish with a rather thin cross, the Swedish's longer with a more fat cross, and then the Finnish is even longer and fatter, - so much that I have to compensate on the character cell level (8 pixel precision) to get an okay feel - now that I know. Never thought it would come to that. Any chance of getting to work on a version of the alternative Danish flag? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted March 9, 2015 Author Share Posted March 9, 2015 (edited) Any chance of getting to work on a version of the alternative Danish flag? I like strong special beers, and (/therefore) I might pick up the challenge later (doing a Carlsberg flag or something of that nature). The trick with the flag below is, that only some parts need updating. With the easier flag designs, I'll only need these 8 character patterns. In the case of the German flag I'll need them repeated 4 times with different color combinations, and 6 times with the Danish and for example the Italian one. The Danish flag above needs updating of 20 characters (not patterns so it's only 20 bytes to update) in the first row etc. And the effect is just fine with only 15 frame/screen updates per second. And this should give us time to handle much more complex flags. Edited March 9, 2015 by sometimes99er Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted March 10, 2015 Author Share Posted March 10, 2015 Was looking into adding more flags, and actually found different aspect ratios (height to width ratio) with for example the Danish flag being rather squarish with a rather thin cross, the Swedish's longer with a more fat cross, and then the Finnish is even longer and fatter, - so much that I have to compensate on the character cell level (8 pixel precision) to get an okay feel - now that I know. Never thought it would come to that. This should demonstrate what I'm talking about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMole Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 I like strong special beers, and (/therefore) I might pick up the challenge later (doing a Carlsberg flag or something of that nature). The trick with the flag below is, that only some parts need updating. With the easier flag designs, I'll only need these 8 character patterns. In the case of the German flag I'll need them repeated 4 times with different color combinations, and 6 times with the Danish and for example the Italian one. The Danish flag above needs updating of 20 characters (not patterns so it's only 20 bytes to update) in the first row etc. And the effect is just fine with only 15 frame/screen updates per second. And this should give us time to handle much more complex flags. Awesome! This would be super cool as part of a racing game for the track selection screen! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
am1933 Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Awesome! This would be super cool as part of a racing game for the track selection screen! I believe "English Software" got there first with the Atari 8bit racing game "Elektraglide". http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCgQtwIwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D4JxagpNL9Tw&ei=qkn_VO-xOo3bao-NgMgL&usg=AFQjCNF6kwsN0sQEz4HpVKBBAv2Y8qZ_Yg&bvm=bv.87611401,d.d2s&cad=rja Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted March 10, 2015 Author Share Posted March 10, 2015 And here's the Flash prototype for the cartridge demo. [media=544,416]http://sometimes.planet-99.net/pic/flags.swf[/media] 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted March 12, 2015 Author Share Posted March 12, 2015 Ahh, yes, thanks Willsy for the "like". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 I clicked on this and a high-pitched "beep" played. Or am I losing my mind? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted March 12, 2015 Author Share Posted March 12, 2015 I clicked on this and a high-pitched "beep" played. Or am I losing my mind? Not to cause any unnecessary confusion, I've removed the initial "beep" from all of my TI-99/4A Flash simulators (post #16). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Not to cause any unnecessary confusion, I've removed the initial "beep" from all of my TI-99/4A Flash simulators (post #16). Ah, thank you for that. Now I can remove them from my block list. I got in major trouble the first time I loaded one of the threads with your flash demos. The female unit sleeping next to me liked to have shat herself and beat the living hell out of me in the process. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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