Xavier Louis Tardy Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 So far it's only WIP or POC but I'm quite pleased with the results so far : 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4ever2600 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Absolutely beautiful! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Louis Tardy Posted January 1 Author Share Posted January 1 Thanks ! I should be able to show more moving on screen some day this month, I'm working on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Xavier Louis Tardy Posted February 1 Author Share Posted February 1 (edited) Hello. If you've got 2 minutes to lose you can watch this. I have difficulties making good captures of a CRT monitor, unfortunately, as it's much nicer on a good old CRT monitor, than on my modern DELL monitor, with an upscaler. There are now 4 horns displayed, instead of 2. And I can display them full heigth ( 170 pixels) which was not the case previously. I also added the screen opening effect, achieved by altering the contents of some of the VIDC registers ( also using RasterMan and its software equivalent of an H-Sync interrupt ). And and and ... still 50 fps on a 'slow' 8 Mhz Acorn Archimedes 🙂 Edited February 1 by Xavier Louis Tardy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Louis Tardy Posted April 9 Author Share Posted April 9 (edited) Captured with a DIGIT NOW! device. Sorry for the distorted sound, I screwed the sound mods on this machine. Please read the description section to know more. Edited April 9 by Xavier Louis Tardy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColecoGamer Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 Any updates yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Louis Tardy Posted August 27 Author Share Posted August 27 (edited) This is the latest video : I have a version with more cycles saved, not uploaded yet. With this version I could plot about 10 additional rectangles and keep a steady 50 fps ( These rectangles are plotted to give me an idea of how many unused cycles I've got left to add something on screen per 1 50th of a second ). Thanks for your interest. Edited August 27 by Xavier Louis Tardy Explanations about the reason why I plot some coloured rectangles 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColecoGamer Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 Impressive! I only recently learned about these computers. Why they never caught on (and why they didn’t outsell the Amiga) is surprising to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Louis Tardy Posted August 27 Author Share Posted August 27 Thanks. Well, there are many reasons. I'm going to tell you what I think, of course other people will think differently. I'd say only selling in the UK and a bit in Australia doesn't help, for a start. Then, positioning the range for education and small business, almost 'despising' gaming, has its consequences. Then, the price. Considering how capable the Archimedes were, to me they were not overpriced at all, but of course they were not as cheap as an Atari ST or C= amiga. Hiding how to directly access the chipset wasn't a 'plus' either, be it for demomakers or games developers. I'll never regret having one BITD. The ARM is a beautiful beast, RISC OS is just brilliant, and we were gifted with editors, languages and tools. The lack of games lead me to spend most of my time coding ; to me, it was more a blessing than a curse. I had mostly spent my child years playing on the Speccy ; for my teenage years I wanted a powerful and user friendly machine to learn assembly language, the Archimedes fulfilled exactly what I was looking for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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