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I have decided I might do an Amiga Demo/Game Intro DVD.. What I plan to do is rip game intro's and demos/megademos and then write them to a DVD with proper menus etc.. Now what I want to know is.... IS ANYONE INTERESTED IN HELPING OUT? I will make the DVD available free as a d/l from my ftp and/or I will send the DVD to peeps (Assuming my costs are covered.. probs £1 per disc and postage!!) If yhou wanna help out then what we need to do is firstly get a dfinitive list of game intro's/outro's listed and also demos listed to be incorporated (Anything visual is possible from megademos to slideshows!!) Lets get the ball rolling and get a list of what people would like to see.. and also a list of peeps interested in helping out (grabbing the footage or creating the menu's etc..) --- I'll edit this post with complete listings as demos are added --- Games Done: Alien Breed Another World Arabian Nights Battle Squadron (Enverex) Beneath a Steel Sky (Enverex) Blood Money Cannon Fodder (Enverex) Cannon Fodder 2 (Enverex) Captive Captive 2 (A1200 & CD32) Civilization (Enverex) Chuck Rock Dreamweb (Enverex) Dune Dune II (Hal) Flashback (Enverex) Frontier (Enverex) Fury of the Furries (Done by Enverex) Genetic Species (Done by Boss) Gods Heimdall (Done by Killergorilla) Killing Game Show Knightmare Lemmings Lemmings 2 Mega lo Mania Moonstone Nitro North & South Pinball Illusions Powermonger Premiere Roadkill Robocod Beast 2 Beast 3 Sleepwalker (Needs re-doing) Stardust Super Space Invaders Superfrog Syndicate (Hal) Uropa 2 (done by Boss) Wlaker Wendetta 2175 (Done by Boss) Wolfchild Demos Done: 242 3D Demo By Night D.O.S Dawn Remix Desert Dreams Flower Power Gulf War Human Target (Done by Jan) Mind Riot Multica Ray of Hope Ray of Hope 2 Seeing is Believing State of the Art Symbolia Xpose Last edited by BippyM; 18 February 2004 at 23:57. |
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I'd like to help if I can. I can grab footage (but only through WinUAE), I have a DVD writer, and I'm a bit of a demo fan (AGA stuff, mostly).
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09 August 2003, 18:40 | #3 |
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Best of luck. It sounds a great idea and I'd definitely take a copy off your hands. If you could have the option to play ALL demos at once as well that would be great as well.
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09 August 2003, 18:41 | #4 |
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Id definitely be interested in buying a copy of this as a DL would be too large for my dial up connection.
I dont know how to grab footage from WinUAE but if its not too difficult: What about featuring footage of games being played to their best? We all have our favourites that we are especially good at, i.e Bloodwych playing Bloodwych, me playing Chaos Engine, Akira playing a Shoot em up etc. This would show the games at their best. Maybe playing a classic tune from these games while they are being played would also be cool? |
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Good idea, but have no time to help out with any ripping.
Always thought it would be a interesting project to chart the advancement of demo effects. Like from the very shakey line vectors, through filled, transforming, light source, space cut, circles right up to texturing *spit*. then you have the copper effects, plasma, rotation zooming, etc etc. Just an idea I've been thinking about not doing anything about. Good luck any way. |
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Just on thought, I would rather see them recorded as played on an Amiga than through WinUAE.
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If it's compatible, I don't see that it makes any difference.
Also, if you recorded directly from an Amiga, the picture quality wouldn't be as good (because it'd have to go through a capture device before being encoded). Nobody would know the difference anyway, so I don't see the problem. |
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I also think that just taking footage from real Amigas stops a lot of those of us who emulate from adding stuff.
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Interesting project...
I tried recording "State of the art" some months ago, but had difficulties with the video/audio codecs. I tried Huffyuf and MJpeg, because they provide the best encoding quality. WinUAE creates these files but the file header reads "1000 fps" or so which I had to correct before processing the files with an MPEG2-encoder. There is also another problem with WinUAE concerning the output file size/written frames. It would be nice if Toni added an automatic file-splitting feature. Btw. "State of the art" is the demo to show you the limits of MPEG2 encoding - look at the interference patterns (circles)... |
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Okay guys.. It'll be quite easy for all to get involved.. I'll be creating a WinUAE config (As that'd be better than actually grabbing from the miggy!!)
As for grabbing the resultant AVI.. Best bet is for ppl with NTFS filesystem.. uncompressed frams and huge HD's is recomended, then it is simply chopped/edited in VDub or whatever then converted directly to MPeg2 with TMPGenc or whatever.. Anyway read THIS thread for more info.. Also can we start posting game/demo names that ppl wanna see.. State Of The Art is in |
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Have you tried playing a game whilst grabbing footage? Even though it might generally work okay.. it'll have probs with speed and playing Chaos Engine at 5fps is not fun!! Anyway Dast have a play and lemme know your results |
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I have recorded and played at the same time, it ran normal speed and I didn't realise that it was actually recording. It all just depends on the speed of your machine and if it is capable of being able to do HD intensive things without killing itself.
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@Bippy
Ok Ill look into this (didnt realise it slowed down while playing) BTW ALL Psygnosis intros/extros should be included IMO. |
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you remember Mindcandy vol 1 [Demo DVD project], hum ?
the second DVD is in work and will be Amiga Demos Only. Quote:
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I'd like to see a DVD with some extras. Interviews with some of the leading lights of the scene, and I'm sure that amateur footage from the scene parties must exist somewhere...
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Anyway feel free to try, and lemme know what you find Dast!! Also I feel ALL amiga game Intro's (Proper intro's) should be included |
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I just attempted this and found that it ran quite slow unless i used a much smaller scren size.
Any suggestions? or is my PC just too weak? |
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The Demos will simply be added after, but bedt of all this will be pretty much FREE... Cost of a DVD and postage and bobs yer uncle |
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Also if you have an NTFS filesystem turn of compression, the files will be huge, but the slowdown less noticable makesure nothing else is running in the BG |
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