CPU Bach for 3D0

[Kitsunexus]

Oh, my bad, so it is tracker-style, but the composition is pre-rendered, not the audio. That makes more sense, and the 3MB of RAM is a definite improvement from what I thought originally (the Proteus/2 orchestral module only has 4MB of RAM, and it's actually only slightly better).

The 3DO has very interesting memory.  It has 2 Megs of ram and 1 meg of video ram.  However you can use all of the 1 meg of video ram as normal ram.  You can also use the 2nd meg of ram as video ram.  This allowed programmers to focus on what game element they wanted to stand out and allowed the 3DO to have some rather varied software.  Digital Dreamware is one of the few titles that uses normal ram as video ram as the only other thing it has to worry about is streaming a mp2 file off the CD which is hardware decoded.

Hmmm, next to the Gamecube that's the only other system I've ever heard to do that (Tony Hawk's Underground for Gamecube borrows some audio RAM). And what is this Digital Dreamware thing? Is it up to Jeff Minter quality?

[MissaFX]

Hmmm, next to the Gamecube that's the only other system I've ever heard to do that (Tony Hawk's Underground for Gamecube borrows some audio RAM). And what is this Digital Dreamware thing? Is it up to Jeff Minter quality?

Digital Dreamware is what 3DO people had to trip to while PC people looked at dazzle.  It's a set of 6 different visualizations which are generated some by random, other parts of it by the music.  The music is various types of techno and some of the songs I never get tired of.  The visualizations though are using mostly 3-D elements, not psychedelic colors like I would associate with Jeff Minter.
It's pre-milk drop era visualizations, you have to enjoy them for the retroness/nostalgia of it, not how wonderful it is.

[Kitsunexus]

Hmmm, next to the Gamecube that's the only other system I've ever heard to do that (Tony Hawk's Underground for Gamecube borrows some audio RAM). And what is this Digital Dreamware thing? Is it up to Jeff Minter quality?

Digital Dreamware is what 3DO people had to trip to while PC people looked at dazzle.  It's a set of 6 different visualizations which are generated some by random, other parts of it by the music.  The music is various types of techno and some of the songs I never get tired of.  The visualizations though are using mostly 3-D elements, not psychedelic colors like I would associate with Jeff Minter.
It's pre-milk drop era visualizations, you have to enjoy them for the retroness/nostalgia of it, not how wonderful it is.

I'm looking for Youtube videos, but nothing pops up. I really need to get a 3D0...

[MissaFX]

I'm looking for Youtube videos, but nothing pops up. I really need to get a 3D0...

Most games run in freeDO at 60fps solid for me.  This one runs at under 10, at parts under 5.  I tried to capture it once for someone and discovered this.  You will have to run it on the 3DO when you get one.  I don't have anything for video capture or I would do it that way.  I need to get a DVD-R syle VCR sometime.

[Kitsunexus]

I need to get a DVD-R syle VCR sometime.

I was actually looking at something like this:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/8af5/

[MissaFX]

I need to get a DVD-R syle VCR sometime.

I was actually looking at something like this:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/8af5/

That would be fine for most things, but with a DVD-R consumer deck you can record in 10mbps mpeg2 with uncompressed PCM audio and then rip the tracks on the PC for much higher quality.

[Kitsunexus]

I need to get a DVD-R syle VCR sometime.

I was actually looking at something like this:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/8af5/

That would be fine for most things, but with a DVD-R consumer deck you can record in 10mbps mpeg2 with uncompressed PCM audio and then rip the tracks on the PC for much higher quality.

But when you just want to make videos of games to put on Youtube, that becomes moot. You could have a 4000 megapixel HD Sony Steadicam personally designed by Steven Speilberg, Quentin Tarantino and the ghost of Ingmar Bergman and have the movies be recorded onto the toilet paper of God (now with 3-ply comfort and STILL in the 35mm format) but Youtube is going to make it shit.

I need something better than a first-generation webcam pointed at a TV, but I don't need my own freaking AVID either.