PCE Slideshow: OLD IS BEAUTIFUL

[ccovell]

Hi, everyone.  I attended the 2nd day of the Tokyo Demo Fest this year, and entered a PCE slideshow in the Wild compo.  (Placed 5th, but at least I got to meet and chat with some fun, interesting people.)

You can check out a high-quality(?) composite video capture of my demo here:


No raster-graphics-splits or flickering is used to display the pictures in the demo.

PCE ROM: http://www.chrismcovell.com/data/OLD_IS_BEAUTIFUL_PCE.zip
(source code: http://chrismcovell.com//data/OldIsBeautiful_src.zip )

NTSC composite is probably required.

[Black Tiger]

Very cool.

Did you also use 512 x 224/240 resolution?

[ccovell]

No, 256x240, but using the 320/352-pixel width mode.

[esteban]

More images of humans chewing/eating off of PCE, please. Thank you.

Also, those fonts...OMG!

I like the whimsical one near the end ( @3:00... yes, it is goofy, bit unabashedly whimsically goofy, so it totally fits the slideshow).

Otherwise... DAMN, you know better.

I still love you, though.

Of course.

[ccovell]

Otherwise... DAMN, you know better.

Know better than to do what exactly?   :-]

[touko]

wahou, impressive 

bad apple  , bad apple  ,bad apple on pce  :

[ccovell]

bad apple  , bad apple  ,bad apple on pce  :

Baahd apple?  Baaahhhhd apple?  Are we not sheep?  No!  We are men.

[Black Tiger]

There's no point in doing a dick-measuring demo like bad apple unless you can make it overall better in ways that console war opponents will accept.

[elmer]

Nicely done! 

I'd bet that people were surprised to see a PC Engine at the Demo Fest.

[ccovell]

Nicely done! 

I'd bet that people were surprised to see a PC Engine at the Demo Fest.

Thanks!

The organizers were happy/intrigued, but a random sampling of guests kinda proved an earlier statement of punkfloyd's about their PCE/SGX demos: nobody really knows what the PCE is ("Is it a graphics card for the PC?", I heard) nor what it is capable or incapable of.  I love the demoscene but it is often removed from the retro gaming scene, as I'd call it.

Anyway, here's a little explanation of the "hicolour" effects in the slideshow:


The added benefit is that you can devote an entire colour channel (red, or cyan if you want) to one layer (sprites or SGX BG...) and the remaining channels to the standard BG.  This means more & a greater variety of colours together in a confined space, with no attribute clash.  Hopefully.

A test of this is here: http://chrismcovell.com/data/OldIsBeaut-Test.zip
I and II change palettes.

[Dicer]

Is there a .pce I can grab of this?

[ccovell]

Yes, I already added it to my top post.

[Dicer]

Yes, I already added it to my top post.

Yep, blind...sorry tyvm and cool stuff 

[touko]

bad apple  , bad apple  ,bad apple on pce  :

Baahd apple?  Baaahhhhd apple?  Are we not sheep?  No!  We are men.

[Arkhan]

I see a familiar picture!


One of these days, I might make a PCE demo.  I'm kind of lazy though.

I mostly just enjoy making music.  The graphics/scrolling hoojoo kind of does me in.