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No, it runs on the Acorn Archimedes, a machine with a 32-bit RISC processor :)

Laziness would be the most accurate :)

@@ollerich32 I understand... it must be a lot of hassle and work, but nevertheless, it's a big waste. TY

I hope so too!

Yes I can, have a look at th-cam.com/video/635ktbZB2sw/w-d-xo.html

Wow, thank you!

Glad you like it!

and another song by me :) th-cam.com/video/--grP2CZlrs/w-d-xo.html

here is one of the songs I'm most proud of, th-cam.com/video/QCUXi71Cnb0/w-d-xo.html especially from 1:28, made with your master software soundtracker 128 ;) I no longer have a cpc and I no longer have anything to read my floppy disks but I have a lot of music

and a no credited one i like (always with st128) th-cam.com/video/--grP2CZlrs/w-d-xo.html

That's a really nice tune, but the drums are either samples or you are a master of drum design on the CPC :)

I like your tunes, did you retire from making CPC music? That would be a true loss.

@@ollerich32 hey , thank you master, i really retired coz i've not real hardware ..... to your space debris CPC version, i understand how it's hard to get 4 channel on 1, for my side, i translated Elysium from Jester, i don't know if you ever heard it th-cam.com/video/3nnFhA0GRaQ/w-d-xo.html (5'17) to my opinion you are one of the best AY composer with certainly Kangaroo. and when i was young i saw your demos and say "hooow what that shiiiit xD" especially your border scroll. and all of my song composed with your ST128, for me the best tool, maybe i try to do new song but i need real hardware :) Longshot and One try to find it to me :)

The actual mode used here is Mode 1 which has a resolution of 320x200 pixels and can display 4 colours (out of 27) at once. This here is a mode 1 screen reduced in width - 256 pixels I guess. All the additional colours you see are due to rasters. A common effect on most 8-bit machines :)

@@ollerich32 Ah, yes - I forget that the Motorola 6845 and the custom ASIC were rather flexible. I recall ZZKJ releasing a hack that allowed 160x200 with 8 colours to reduce RAM usage (and this CPU time)? Compared to the C64, the CPC certainly had a more vibrant palette (my principle point of envy). The C64 used a good effect called AFLI where you were limited to two colours every 8 pixel wide cell but you could select different colour RAM every scanline to keep changing the palette. It chewed up both 17KB of RAM and nearly 80% of the raster time on PAL systems but made for cool high resolution full palette displays.

I still have to learn about the gfx tricks you can do on the C64, because some of the FLI and similar modes look just awesome.

Thanks!

Yes, absolutely. In fact, it has already been used in a demo -> www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88709

or a very stable genius ..

😂

I am looking forward to seeing your results.

@@ollerich32 A video of our player is here th-cam.com/video/u9b0NeD8_nU/w-d-xo.html - plays back regular PT3 files and you can pick which channels have the effect and various controls

@@em00k Your engine sounds really good, but I think the Next is much more powerful than the good old Speccy .. Is the source code available? I am curious to see how the SID effect was implemented.

It was inspired by this tune: th-cam.com/video/VPx7oK30Jwc/w-d-xo.html

thanks!

There's a tiny bit of BBC Basic V involved, to get the code assembled :)

@@ollerich32 I had the BBC Basic manual that came with my Acorn, I remember my first issue of BBC Acorn User coming with programs for me to type in, but they quickly focused on comercial stuff afterwards. Those days are long gone now, it's mostly commercial stuff and on-line programming lessons for dummies these days.

@@dcikaruga Yes, the times of type-ins are more or less over. Have you ever tried assembly on your Acorn?

@@ollerich32 Never got that far, made some simple games in BASIC, but that's about it. A nice development environment though, esepcially because of all the processing power, a 6502, even the 68000 programmer really had to squeeze what he could of out those machines.

@@dcikarugaTrue. I did my fair amount of z80 assembly, squeezing the most out of the machine was a source of great fun.

Thanks! Problem with your suggestion is: I don't have an old PC (or similar) with a disk drive, so that's a rather dead end. I might get myself an USB disk drive maybe. But I would very much prefer something network-based. The A3010 does have a serial port, maybe that's the way to go. I am still exploring what add-ons have been created recently(ish)..

@@ollerich32 Not sure, the helpful people over at www.stardot.org.uk/forums/ in the 32-bit forum might be able to help you find a solution.

@@nytrex2001 I have just registered at the stardot forums and will check it out over the weekend. Thanks for the pointer!

Hey @nytrex2001, I have uploaded the demo to pouet -> www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=97015 and also re-uploaded a recording of it here :)

Thanks! I need to figure out how to transfer it from disk, before I can upload it. Any hints?

Check it out at www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=97015

Thank you!