The demo scene always fascinated me to see what independent developers could come up with. This is cool. Although we never got this system in the states, I do appreciate that it exists.
Looks and sounds awesome, really like it. On the other hand, the first thing I would show anyone is the port of Pinball Dreams running on the CPC. Case closed :)
So how come 1st generation programmers back in the 80s couldn't generate this level of fidelity, smoothness and speed with their graphics, when the machine was new? It's as if you've 'unlocked' some level of capability that was hitherto hidden.... The hardware between then and now is the same, right?
You will find the same evolution on any other 8-bit machine. Over time, new tricks were discovered, the limitations and possibilities of the hardware was explored, documented and ultimately exploited, the power of cross-development made things (generating highly optimised code for the purpose) long time deemed unfeasible possible, the people themselves evolved (a lot of programmers in the 80s were teenagers) and learned new tricks, scenes influenced each others, ideas crossed platform boundaries. And possibly other things I forgot :)
I personally prefer the AY and the 6128 Plus has DMA, so it's even better than the sid. Just listen to Bubble Quest's soundtrack, to mention just one example.
The demo scene always fascinated me to see what independent developers could come up with. This is cool. Although we never got this system in the states, I do appreciate that it exists.
Looks and sounds awesome, really like it. On the other hand, the first thing I would show anyone is the port of Pinball Dreams running on the CPC. Case closed :)
This machine is awesome. Do I hear real stereo? Wow!
Toki looking awesome there. Proof, if proof were needed, that the CPC can do smooth scrolling.
Knocks the spots off a c64
Excellent 👍👌
I'm impressed
Awesone!!!❤
Great !
So well done ... Can we write a program to create Binaural beats ?
Imagine amstrad with a sid chip :)
6128 Plus has DMA, so it's even better.
Amstraaaaaaaad !
awesome.... remixed arkanoid too~!
So how come 1st generation programmers back in the 80s couldn't generate this level of fidelity, smoothness and speed with their graphics, when the machine was new? It's as if you've 'unlocked' some level of capability that was hitherto hidden.... The hardware between then and now is the same, right?
You will find the same evolution on any other 8-bit machine. Over time, new tricks were discovered, the limitations and possibilities of the hardware was explored, documented and ultimately exploited, the power of cross-development made things (generating highly optimised code for the purpose) long time deemed unfeasible possible, the people themselves evolved (a lot of programmers in the 80s were teenagers) and learned new tricks, scenes influenced each others, ideas crossed platform boundaries. And possibly other things I forgot :)
the amstrad in the right hands was the better computer out of the 8 bits , shame it mostly got speccie ports
ive been saying it since the 80s!... the CPC shits all over the C64... the only thing the C64 had going for it was the SID... the rest is utter crap
I personally prefer the AY and the 6128 Plus has DMA, so it's even better than the sid.
Just listen to Bubble Quest's soundtrack, to mention just one example.