Breaking Baud

[rexbeng]

Well deserved second place! o/


rb

[McKlain]

Oh yeah 




Where are the compo results?

[rexbeng]

The results are being posted on pouet as we speak. http://www.pouet.net/party.php?which=1550&when=2014


rb

[Phi2x]

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[McKlain]

I'm happy of having worked with such a talented bunch of people. 

[tastefulmrship]

Breaking Baud is a great homage to the CPC 464 for its 30 years anniversary.

This. This should be plastered all over the CPCWiki website & forum! As well as all other CPC-related websites!

Happy Birthday CPC-464; here's your cake and you can jolly well eat it too! Major congrats on a worthy 2nd place in the Oldskool Demo Compo (sorry, but BANG! was always going to win, despite it's over-use of the 32K extra RAM... but... of course... it wouldn't be Revision without a little bit of controversy!)





EDIT: And I realise this doesn't belong here, but the return of TBL to the Amiga scene was astonishing! Assembly 2006 all over again! WOW!

EDIT: Finally, for me, if anyone's going to SUNDOWN this year... the beer's are on me! ^_^
(subject to 1 beer per person)

[cpc4eva]

very cool demo something very different a tape demo nice job indeed.

how awesome does a cpc look on a big screen 

[Sykobee (Briggsy)]

Hmm, and when did the 32K Atari 2600 mod appear first? :p


Yeah, a worthy 2nd place, and indeed technically and graphically very ace too. And works on 1984 hardware.

[ralferoo]

Personally, I think the 2600 demo was awesome - I know I voted it full marks, and was expecting it to win as soon as I saw it. Svolli (the author of that demo) also ran some seminars and practical sessions on 2600 programming on the Friday wish I'd really have loved to go to, but sadly I was too busy fixing things in my demo to be able to attend...

FWIW, I think the 8KB expansion cartridge is totally in the rules as the cartridge is just "media" - the demo was running on a real 2600 and that's what counts IMHO. The original cartridge was only 2KB, so are "4KB cartridges" cheating, or are they normal because they were also common on retail games? There was even a retail game with a 32KB ROM, so that could be considered "standard" too... Another example - what about Starfox for the N64? That contained a whole video chip on the cartridge, but people didn't complain about that, instead they just said "WOW - THIS IS AWESOME!"...

[MaV]

A great and original demo! And our CPC finally has a tape demo as well.

I really liked how McKlain's music fit the pictures' mood. 

[TFM]

Just saw the video on Octoate.de. Well, say what you want, that's really pretty cool!!! 




EDIT: But why does it say "Podatron" instead of "Prodatron"? Is that an insult or a typo? Well, the German word  "Po" means "buttocks". I really hope it's a typo only.

[TotO]

A great and original demo! And our CPC finally has a tape demo as well.

Yes, with Relentless, the 464 users can now show it to remember why it was so cool to load programs on Tape...
... Without turning off the computer before playing to the game itself. 

[MaV]

EDIT: But why does it say "Podatron" instead of "Prodatron"? Is that an insult or a typo? Well, the German word  "Po" means "buttocks". I really hope it's a typo only.

That's a typo. Name one single reason why I should insult someone, and for that matter Prodatron in particular?
We were tired as hell, and although we checked, our bleary eyes couldn't find this one. ralferoo probably doesn't know what "Po" means in German.
You might have noticed that we mentioned your game as well, although we wrongly called them "Space Chicken" for the same reasons.

[ralferoo]

EDIT: But why does it say "Podatron" instead of "Prodatron"? Is that an insult or a typo? Well, the German word  "Po" means "buttocks". I really hope it's a typo only.

No, it wasn't an insult. After spending all day Saturday trying to get the demo finished, and after 3.5 hours sleep that night, the credits were written on the morning of submission and the greetings in the last hour. It was a massive rush at the end, and I even forgot people I should have included like people in our demo group who couldn't make the party. I did a final speed run of the credits at 4x speed in an emulator to make sure it didn't crash, I didn't actually even read the text I'd typed in!

I'll correct it for the "final" version along with a couple of things that just didn't get finished in time.

[redbox]

I'll correct it for the "final" version along with a couple of things that just didn't get finished in time.

I just watched this demo again and felt I had to say one more time a huge well done to everyone involved in it.

It's an epic demo and definitely rates amongst the greatest ever.  I can't believe that you did a tape demo and executed it so perfectly.

It should have just won the best demo regardless of category IMHO 

[Targhan]

This is excellent stuff! Well done! The graphics are excellent, so is the music (and it's hard to satisfy my tastes ). The demo looks well polished and it's very very original. Congrats !
Trg.Aks

[TFM]

  That's a typo. Name one single reason why I should insult someone, and for that matter Prodatron in particular?
We were tired as hell, and although we checked, our bleary eyes couldn't find this one. ralferoo probably doesn't know what "Po" means in German.
You might have noticed that we mentioned your game as well, although we wrongly called them "Space Chicken" for the same reasons.

Relax, you can update the demo right?

[ralferoo]

This is excellent stuff! Well done! The graphics are excellent, so is the music (and it's hard to satisfy my tastes ). The demo looks well polished and it's very very original. Congrats !
Trg.Aks

You were another person I forgot to put in the greetings... I spent the last two weeks converting your Arkos Tracker player source into something that'd coexist with my tape loading code (it now only uses A,BC,DE,HL because all the others are needed by the tape code), and I learned so much about how trackers work in general it was a great time (despite it taking much longer than I planned!)...

[Targhan]

Glad to know my work was useful . Wouldn't it be possible to stream the music in the tape data instead of managing a real player ?

[MacDeath]

why it was so cool to load programs on Tape...

it was never cool...

anyway, congrats for 2nd place... damn atari2600...

Still all C64 are defeated by the mighty CPC464.

[Hicks]

I add my thumb up, it was very nice to see this prod live. I have not had the possibility to congratulate Doz in real so I do it here!
McKlain and Rex are probably two of my favorites artists of the moment on CPC.

[paradroid90]

Great Stuff Guys Well Done 

[MacDeath]

good point is that since a few years, most major demo parties has a CPC prod released... and it often reach to honorable places.

[Optimus]

What a great surprise to see another CPC demo at the party. I love the idea, the title and the graphics and how well the music fit with tape loading. Kinda disappointed to not see some effects included, but I know they were planned and there was just not enough time.


And I think the 2nd place is also a great achievement. It entertains me how some people sometimes argue when a CPC demo doesn't come 1st place, and they argue how the other platform had precalced effects or used more memory or whatever. But be honest, a lot of the entries in the compo were quite good, it was a fresh oldschool compo, not only one but two atari vcs with many effects, one C64 demo with some effects (even though less stuff than usually expected from Fairlight/Offence and reuse of old stuff). But you have the big names and more popular machines with effects and stuff, and yet the CPC gets 2nd place over C64/Fairlight which was surprising. I mean, yes I am happy the CPC is represented, but I respect some of the other really good works too, it was a tough compo, the CPC demo could have easily taken 3rd or 4th place and I still wouldn't complain. Which should makes us happy it got so high, maybe people liked the original idea over the same old effects in other platforms, maybe they start liking CPC more

[MacDeath]

can't argue the fact the Atari2600 managed a huge thing despite its hardware... still a bit curious... what physical support did they use...
Weren't cartridges greatly limited on those ?

Sadly Breaking Baud is nice but clearly not a Batman killer...


Will the planed collective 30 years Megademo from pushNpop be released at some huge party ?

Would be great to have something reaching 1st place again against all those speccies and C64s and Amiga and STies...

We can't deny that Batman made a huge impact on the scene and gave CPC a great visibility with it, it gained at last its rightfull place as a great Demo machine... and as the CPCscene managed to constantly deliver  nice things since...

perhaps scenedudes are bored of speccy 1bpp attributes tricks or overused washed grey/brown C64 palette or ear-bleeding Sid...

CPC cubic 3"3"3 palette and overscan and powerfull video modes are somewhat refreshing...


Well, Atari 8 bit computers may be nice as well...

but it looks too much like a "Mode3" (4 coloured mode0) plsu a few colour patches from sprites...
Graphically, the CPC can easily do as well in simple mode0 lol... and PLUS can often do exactly the same in Mode1...

The feeling i often got when i watched Arsantica.
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=62953

Many screens could be done in pure Mode1 on a PLUS.
perhaps even in "mode5" on CPC old...

Just we have less greys...