Asynchronous - Acorn Archimedes Demo - by DESiRE
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ส.ค. 2022
- Winning 1st place in the Oldskool Demo Compo at NOVA 2022.
Video captured from real A3020 hardware by Progen & kieran.
Turns out the A3020 has bad audio out.
Audio re-recorded from real A3010 hardware by ToBach.
Video remastered by Danbee. Thank you all!
Credits
Code: Progen
Graphics: VisionVortex
Graphics: Jade
Graphics: DStar
Music: Subi
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Very cool demo, first I've ever seen on an Arch. Very impressed :) thanks for the greets too 🙏
Very nice work 👍
Awesome!
Brilliant! :D
Thank you for the capture Kieran !
Kickin' Track!
Nice demo :)
cool tune too!
Nice to see something else, I never really heard much about the Arch pc...... I was more into the Amiga back then.
Cool!
First Arch demo. Cherry popped.
My first enounter with an Archie was at the Gathering 92. I can't remember the exact model. I think it was an A4000. (Not Amiga 4000, because obviously it did not exist at the time). Anyhoo. I met this guy with one at that party. But it's so long ago. I was sitting close to him with my Amiga 500 and thinking "How did you afford that computer?" Because the Archies were rare here in Norway at that time. It was when the Amiga 3000 was a new thing.
really good tune, but a bit too muffled .Good effects, and this demo has the demo spirit IMO .Glad to see these kind of demo .Good job .
Muffled is what the Archie sounds like, unfortunately.
There are ways to improve the audio filter on the Archimedes to get rid of the muffling, though the difficulty varies depending on the model. The A3010 is one of the more awkward ones to mod, IIRC, but it's still doable.
No adf image?
WHYYYY
At the risk of been 'canceled', I was surprised at how 'jittery' it is - I thought the Archimedes were super-fast for their day? As it happens, I inherited a A3000, which on opening, I discovered the infamous battery-leak problem. Tried cleaning it up, but inductors started falling off... Pity, I was eager to play with its Basic, which if memory served was used, at least partially, by David Braben for Virus.
The Archimedes' speed is kind of its downfall for some stuff. The sheer heft of the ARM meant that the supporting hardware like the VIDC were pretty barebones: the video part is basically a framebuffer and a single sprite, with not even a blitter to help out.
Oh, and there wasn't even a raster interrupt, though you could lean on some of my the MEMC's signalling to kind of fake it.
@@talideon the lack of a raster interrupt would explain the jittery-ness I guess. My only experience with this was with the even more minimalist Oric computers. Even the Sinclair Spectrum had raster interrupts, albeit little else. My only blitter experience was with the Atari ste, and it didn't impress, offering only marginal speed increases. All good fun though.