Chequered Past - Acorn Archimedes Demo - by Bitshifters & Torment

A demo for the Acorn Archimedes released at NOVA 2023 demoparty.
A mere five years after Blueberry originally set the checkerboard challenge for Gerp 2018. Oh well, better late than never.
50Hz capture from real A3020 hardware with audio filter bypass mod.
Credits: kieran (code), Rhino (music), Spiny (graphics), Phoenix^Quantum (QTM).
Thanks to Progen and Blueberry.

[@dw1664]

I think this is excellent, well done. And the sound quality (as others have picked up on) is exceptionally good for an Archimedes.

[@womble1981]

I like the synchronisation of music and imagery

[@nickluvsretro]

Once again you absolutely smash it out of the park!

[@spinyuk]

The gfx could have been on the screen a bit longer, they looked really good :) Loved how this turned out though, the sync is on point!

[@kieranhj]

Yeah sorry buddy - it all came together quite quickly, in all senses of the word!!

[@estrayk]

Amazing!!! great music too btw

[@ChrisUnitt82]

Awesome demo! The Archimedes was way ahead of its time

[@DreamlandFantasy]

Cool demo! Really digging the music track. :)

[@endofthelinejoel]

Great stuff. Great coding.

[@tmk8612]

Really lovely tech and presentation. But (and I mean this with love), with you guys' technical skills I'd really love to see some original effects from you, rather than very well produced versions of classic ST/Amiga effects.

[@kieranhj]

Thanks, and you’re not wrong! I’ve been somewhat deliberately ticking off the demoscene tropes to get them out of my system and understand the capabilities of the machine. I think I’m done now so planning more original stuff in future building on the library of code & techniques that’s been put together.

[@irrigamii]

Sweet demo!

[@xeroniris]

Good demo, great soundtrack. Lovely to meet you at the party, too.

[@xeroniris]

.. also nice pitchshifter reference in the bitshifters logo. Great band.