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Invitation to Alchimie 6

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 10:34 am
by mmu_man
I wanted to do a small invitation to Alchimie.
I started writing some code, not sure I'll finish it in time.

Just a single effect for now.

Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 3:14 am
by mmu_man
So, wrote some more, it's now almost watchable :)
Same place:
http://revolf.free.fr/oric/ALCH6INV.tap
I'll have to take lessons for music though.

Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:46 am
by mmu_man
I eliminated one fonction call per displayed char... much faster now :D

Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:41 am
by mmu_man
Some video now... well, almost :)

Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:30 am
by Twilighte
hehe, nice little demo, well done mmu_man

Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:29 pm
by Dbug
That's nice :)
It could be even better with a 'star trek' style character set :)

Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:46 pm
by mmu_man
Yes but I suck at graphics :)
I planned to write a tool to convert TTF to acceptable font for us (simply write "abcd..." to an (N*8)x8 bitmap and convert it to C/asm) and use that for the matrix code.

Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:09 pm
by mmu_man
The source code:
http://revolf.free.fr/oric/invitalchimie.zip
With some sound as bonus but I'm not even sure the notes are correct.

Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:38 pm
by Dbug
You can also do a 'futurist' font the way I did it in Cyclotron:
http://pouet.scene.org/prod.php?which=24254

The idea is just to force to '0' the pixels of the second line of each character :D

Something like this:

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FOR I=32 TO 127
   POKE #B400+I*8+1,0
NEXT I

Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:48 pm
by mmu_man
Yeah there are similar other tricks like oring everything with itself shifted to get a bold font...
Anyway, I have 2 conferences to prepare for Alchimie, and the LUnix port to finish (disk I/O), and/or SEJORIC (Sedoric for Jasmin), so I'll likely finish that later.

Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:19 pm
by mmu_man
Here is the latest version, as presented at Alchimie.
The 32x24 @1bpp video frames come from my own webcam after some downsizing (but are randomized from a pool of 8 ).

Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:30 pm
by Dbug
So you are the captain picard !
Have you posted the demo on Pouet.net ?

Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:24 pm
by mmu_man