Sdw Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 At the Silly Venture party the theme for the VCS/2600 compo was to celebrate the 40 year anniversary of this fantastic piece of hardware. Together with Mermaid I put together a little entry and sent to the competition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VDm974mpLU You can get the ROM file here (for PAL only): http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=72716 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cvga Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 Fantastic! Especially the artwork! Thanks for sharing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayhem Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 Terrific! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 Impressive! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 This is very cool! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+nanochess Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 Just saw it, very well done! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyHairy Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 This is very cool. I especially like the large multicolored bitmaps. Out of curiosity, what is the difference between the emulator binaries and those for real hardware? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 It appears to me that files with the 3F suffix tells the Harmony those use the Tigervision 3F bank switching scheme, while files with the BIN suffix would need to autodetect, like Stella also does. By offering files with the 3F suffix, the demo won't risk to be misdetected by Harmony and fail to run. Stella on the other hand has menu settiings to manually select bank switching in case it fails to autodetect. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 Very entertaining and impressive. +1 for the great theme too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyHairy Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 It appears to me that files with the 3F suffix tells the Harmony those use the Tigervision 3F bank switching scheme, while files with the BIN suffix would need to autodetect, like Stella also does. By offering files with the 3F suffix, the demo won't risk to be misdetected by Harmony and fail to run. Stella on the other hand has menu settiings to manually select bank switching in case it fails to autodetect. Ah, you're right, I just compared the two files, and they are indeed identical (up to the suffix). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinks Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 Impressive! Great work!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sdw Posted December 13, 2017 Author Share Posted December 13, 2017 Thank you all for the positive comments! And carlsson is exactly right regarding the 3F-extension, it's just to force the correct bankswithing scheme. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vidak Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Very impressive!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Video Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 Awesome, nice colors on the Egyptian people (Anubis?) Even single color per scanline it was really well designed. Like the spirally thing around the scarab. Didn't notice at first it went in front and behind the image. Now I want a cart This and the Atari 40 demo... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinroh Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 Awesome that Egyptian theme is really rad. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mermaid Posted December 15, 2017 Share Posted December 15, 2017 Awesome, nice colors on the Egyptian people (Anubis?) Even single color per scanline it was really well designed. Thank you, the pictures were fun to do! Thank you to everyone else as well for your kind comments! You're correct; the man with the canine head is Anubis. In 2600 BC he was still the most important Egyptian god of the dead and the afterlife. The woman with a fish crown on her head and an Atari CX10 joystick in her hand is the fish-goddess Hatmehit, a goddess of life and protection. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Video Posted December 15, 2017 Share Posted December 15, 2017 Is there going to be a cart, or could those of us that want one have permission to have Albert make them? I just got a thing for tech demos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted December 15, 2017 Share Posted December 15, 2017 That is simply amazing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamemoose Posted December 16, 2017 Share Posted December 16, 2017 It blows my mind what this little machine is able to do thanks to talented programmers, artists and musicians. Keep up the awesome work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinks Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 This should have 160 pages of responses. But nothing to scoff at it is just pure awesome that is all. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidus79001 Posted June 16, 2019 Share Posted June 16, 2019 Wow! Just saw this the other day on YouTube and I am blown away by the graphics, effects and music being pulled off in this demo. Just awe inspiring seeing what can be accomplished on the Atari 2600 with a bit of clever programming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
root42 Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Easily my favorite demo so far. Brilliantly done. I love demos that tell a story and not only tack one part after the other. Is there any blog or website that explains the parts and technical details some more? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NostAlgae37 Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 I have to agree that this one blew me away, I love the Egyptian-styled art and theme. A+++ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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