24 July 2020, 19:44 | #41 |
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Well done man! Nice music & demo!
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13 March 2021, 15:34 | #42 |
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I just found out that the demo earned me a nomination in the New Talent category of The Meteoriks 2021 (that's the demoscene equivalent of the Oscars)
Nominees presentation: [ Show youtube player ] Meteoriks 2021 website: https://2021.meteoriks.org/nominees THE CURE webpage: https://retream.itch.io/the-cure THE CURE video: [ Show youtube player ] |
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14 March 2021, 10:39 | #44 |
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Thanks!
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14 March 2021, 11:05 | #45 |
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Well deserved Saimo
Also very cool When is this? |
14 March 2021, 11:43 | #46 |
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Thank you!
The awards will be given at the Revision 2021, on Easter. |
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Nice demo indeed, but isn't it rather... political? Chip told me it wasn't his cup of tea, anyway.
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14 March 2021, 20:43 | #49 |
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Congrats saimo
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14 March 2021, 23:18 | #50 |
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congrats you deserve it Simone
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15 March 2021, 00:25 | #51 |
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Thank you, guys!
BTW: let's not forget it's just a nomination, I haven't won anything |
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Lately I realized I could make the startup and cleanup code of SkillGrid more robust, so I improved it further. I decided to apply the same improvements to my other productions, and today it was THE CURE's turn...
v1.1 (20210602) * Made startup and cleanup code more robust. * Fixed (unlikely) memory leak in cleanup code. * Replaced "actual" with "current" in standings graphics. * Fixed/improved README. The new version is available for free download from https://www.retream.com/THE_CURE. |
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That is great Saimo. I just tried the demo "The Cure" and works great.
That demo is something special. I hope there will be more demos using that engine. |
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For me this dot matrix engine will be perfect to use for sub games for new Amiga AGA pinball game
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03 June 2021, 16:44 | #55 |
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@nikosidis
Thanks a lot! It's very unlikely I'll ever do another demo, and even less likely that I'll use the same engine again - it would feel stale, plus I like to innovate @Don Adan Check out my post#8 here |
04 August 2021, 22:14 | #56 |
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Just released a slightly revised version.
v1.2 (04.08.2021) * Made startup and cleanup code more robust. * Made a few tiny optimizations. https://www.retream.com/THE_CURE |
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While working on the SkillGrid update, backporting to it all the improvements I recently made to my other projects, I realized that those improvements came with a couple of new bugs. THE CURE was affected by them, so here's a new bugfixed version.
https://www.retream.com/THE_CURE v1.3 (19.08.2021) * Fixed recently-introduced memory leak in startup code. * Replaced unreliable CIA-access-based delay code at startup with machine-agnostic code. * Made a couple of minor internal changes. @admin Could you change the title of the thread to "Demo THE CURE (was: Dot-matrix engine)" or something like that, please? |
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This update was not planned, but, still, it happened - and makes the demo even better. In short: it improves the music, it improves the audio-to-video sychronization, it adds a few more palette effects and brings other little improvements (for the details, check out the changelog below).
Get THE CURE v1.4 from https://retream.itch.io/the-cure and enjoy! v1.4 (29.04.2022) * Improved music: improved S/N ratio by eliminating a peak (caused by the "str" of "street" in the spoken part) and re-normalizing the waveform; amplified initial part a little bit; reduced greatly the noise that affected the coda (due to the 8-bit quantization) by amplifying that part of the waveform to the maximum and balancing that with a real-time volume change; increased sampling frequency to 29073 Hz (side effects: channels 2 and 3 can no longer be used, so the output volume is lower; music decoding takes a little longer as there is more data to decode each frame; the CHIP bus time taken by audio DMA is almost halved, which makes the demo less demanding). * Added switch-off of filter to ensure music sounds as it is supposed to. * Fixed audio-to-video synchronization: fixed drifting caused by the difference between the actual and theoretical rates (~49.92 VS 50 Hz) of the video refresh (that, by the end of the demo, caused an asynchronism of ~0.5 s); fixed 60 ms asynchronism caused by the fact that the first three frames required for music setup/buffering were ignored; fixed a few timing marks in the script (an off-by-one mark which caused a peak of operations in the specified frame; a mark that caused the following effect to execute 4 frames too late; a few marks that were off by a frame). * Fixed a bad routine pointer (caused by a wrong letter in a label in the source code; it is quite incredible that this did not produce disastrous results). * Added some palette effects. * Optimized music decoding by unpacking and undeltaing data at the same time (why it was not like this right from the beginning is a mistery). * Made some other small optimizations. * Made startup and cleanup code more robust by shielding some critical operations from NMIs and by dealing with audio playback performed with direct hardware access by other programs concurrently. * Added version string. * Improved/extended README. Last edited by saimo; 01 May 2022 at 11:15. |
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As always : thanks for your continued support & attention to detail !
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@all Just released a little update. This should cure (heh) the stuttering I've seen on some boards that are more than capable of running the demo at full speed. https://retream.itch.io/the-cure v1.5 (2.1.2024) * Improved CPU data cache handling on 68040 and 68060. * Ensured the system MMU setup does not affect performance. * Ensured the 68060 susperscalar dispatch is enabled. * Made some small optimizations. * Made startup and cleanup code more robust. Last edited by saimo; 10 January 2024 at 01:04. |
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