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Dragon Pepper by Genesis Project - a new Dragon 32 demo

Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2020 12:26 pm
by Sdw
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Download here includes both the .mp3 to run it on a real system + a video-capture .avi as well.
Or you can watch the video capture directly on YouTube here.

This is our first demo for the Dragon-32. I started coding the effects when I first bought a Dragon-32 in 2014, continued some in 2015, but then the project ended up way, WAY back on the backburner for a few years. Then finally this year I picked it up again and got both Mermaid (graphics) and dLX (music) on board and we could finish and release it!

Re: Dragon Pepper by Genesis Project - a new Dragon 32 demo

Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2020 6:14 pm
by robcfg
It looks gorgeous!

I love the big letters scrolling and the smooth plasma, the music and, of course, the dragons.

Please keep on doing cool stuff!

Re: Dragon Pepper by Genesis Project - a new Dragon 32 demo

Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2020 7:05 pm
by sixxie
That looks excellent!

I also love the dragons :)

No idea why we don't get even crunchy audio out of emulators, mind.

Re: Dragon Pepper by Genesis Project - a new Dragon 32 demo

Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2020 10:26 pm
by unumlapis
Yeah, nice demo and seeing this really shows what can be done with this old vintage computer when tweaked with new eyes.

Re: Dragon Pepper by Genesis Project - a new Dragon 32 demo

Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2020 10:38 pm
by sorchard
This is superb! Every part of it: Coding, artwork & music. I've tried it on real hardware and it looks & sounds great :D

Re: Dragon Pepper by Genesis Project - a new Dragon 32 demo

Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2020 11:28 pm
by sorchard
sixxie wrote: Sun Feb 09, 2020 7:05 pm No idea why we don't get even crunchy audio out of emulators, mind.
It took me a while to figure out: The audio is on the tape, and not produced by the binary. Still cool though :)

Re: Dragon Pepper by Genesis Project - a new Dragon 32 demo

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2020 3:42 pm
by simon
*NOICE* use of SG12 there by GP.....

also the flickermode endpart.....

*IF* you ever want to do a collab demo on the Dragon with DSR @GP - then let me know.....

/Invisibleman (Desire)

Re: Dragon Pepper by Genesis Project - a new Dragon 32 demo

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2020 4:11 pm
by Sdw
Actually the last part is just normal bitmap mode, the flicker is just an artifact of the composite capture! :D

Re: Dragon Pepper by Genesis Project - a new Dragon 32 demo

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2020 4:37 pm
by simon
@sdw...

ermmmm.....

you have an IRQ going on at $10d that flips pages at 50/60FPS (yes i looked at the code)

thats presumably for the plasma..... since you are getting shades of pink etc.....

Re: Dragon Pepper by Genesis Project - a new Dragon 32 demo

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2020 6:18 pm
by Sdw
The buffer flip is just a normal double-buffer, ie. I draw the effect in one frame, then flip on VBL to avoid tearing caused by drawing graphics at the same point the raster beam is at.