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I use the same trick today! I have some "benchmark" macros set up which forcibly override the background color when I want to see where in the frame my operatio
by dansalvato 3y ago
I use the same trick today! I have some "benchmark" macros set up which forcibly override the background color when I want to see where in the frame my operations are taking place.
> Didn't know there were people still trying to squeeze more out of that chipset nowadays.
You will be amazed. The demoscene has gotten insanely good since around 2017. Here are some of my favorites that all run on a stock Amiga 500 (with the trapdoor memory):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jciCr8zEhw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jciCr8zEhw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD9xk3SDSYc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD9xk3SDSYc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYtleuGV7ok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYtleuGV7ok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0OzX7plbeY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0OzX7plbeY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIV4AhfugIs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIV4AhfugIs
- sillywalk 3y agoWow. Thanks for posting these. Reminds me of 8080MPH / Area 5150. I don't know enough about amiga chipset limitations to know which bits I should be impressed more by, but a doing this on a 68k @ 7mhz with 1MB RAM is impressive enough.
- yyyfb 3y agoWow... Looking at the links on one of these, I see that the tooling has evolved a lot from the days of just text editing + assembly https://tbl.nu/2019/08/20/Tooling/ https://tbl.nu/2019/08/20/Tooling/