Thadoss and Jade of Dune teamed up with Virgill/Alcatraz to release a giant of a demo at last weekend's Sillyventure party.
For many, this 16 Mhz / 14 MB Falcon demo was the climax of the party and the demo is a milestone in Atari Falcon demo history without any doubt. Impressive tech and graphic design and foremost thrilling and yet unseen DSP effects (falling leaves anyone?), great scenery and transitions.
The demo optionally conveys one or several emotional messages (depends on yourself), on the edge between thoughfulness and sadness at times, all perfectly transported by Virgill's intensive soundtrack.
Obviously an incredible amount of work went into making this. Thank you so much guys, it means a lot!
More SV coverage might follow here later on.
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060 not compatible ๐
It doesn't need to be!
Dune have carried off the gravitas of a Black Lotus demo, possibly even more so, on a standard Falcon 030.
Quoting Marss:
So what?
btw I see "DLM" in 5:16
Should be DML?
Tried it on 060 at 75 Mhz and 20 Mhz bus.
I got as far as the start of the particle Raven screen. That stopped but the music played on.
Out of additional interest. Did not start at all (hung on initialising?) On Centurbo 2.
Hope to get it running in full at some time. Atm I can watch till falling leaves. Then nothing, but the music happens.
My Falcon is standard, with just 14MB and FPU. Maybe it is just free harddrive space. Have 5MB left there atm. Try to free up some more MB this evening.
I've pushed the DSP/68030 timings to their maximum to speed up the demo.
So, if you use modified falcons (with a non 1:2 ratio between DSP and 68030), it may finish with freezes.
Laurent