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pwrrr
6mo ago
I miss those times
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pwrrr
1y ago
One of my favorite hacker movies! Saw it in at the cinema and numerous times on dvd. Will definetely get this. The comment about the shoes, stick with you ;)
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pwrrr
2y ago
Indeed :)
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pwrrr
2y ago
Yeah, you can x and/or y expand a sprite, then change it to make it look like it contains more data by cleverly drawing the sprite because 1 pixel becomes 2 pixels wide in expanded mode.
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pwrrr
2y ago
They are in the border, Only sprites, ghostbyte (a repeating byte only shown in black. It is the last byte of the chosen videobank) and background color can be displayed there.
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pwrrr
2y ago
You can't change the sprites every rasterline. Sprites are 21 pixels in height in unexpanded mode. So you can only change the sprite after displaying all 21 lines, unless you use sprite-crunching, where the limit is still several lines
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pwrrr
2y ago
Have read the book many times. And even played the game many times (Amiga mostly). I recall one mp3 where Gibson reads the book. It wasn't very good. Kind of rushed. Always been a huge fan though. I wonder if we will ever get the movie
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pwrrr
2y ago
Holy cow. I remember reading that page in the Amiga reference manual, thinking it was utter crap and made up my own way of calculating the value (which worked, lol).
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pwrrr
2y ago
Great! It's always been fun to code on the C64 !! I'll definitely take a look at the guide to see if I can make something using my normal Kickassembler setup. I don't know if it's some kind of API, but sounds like fun to
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pwrrr
3y ago
Not only that. Give a baby vegetables, and they will do everything in their power to avoid eating it. They prefer meat too ;)
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pwrrr
3y ago
Synthetic vitamins aren't that good apparantly
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pwrrr
3y ago
whyyy
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pwrrr
3y ago
Very cool thanks!
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pwrrr
4y ago
Indeed the most insane effects were always created by the dutch :)
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pwrrr
4y ago
Yeah VSP. Although you could scroll the entire screen with $d016 by splitting up the fullscreen byte shift in the 7 frames before the shift :)
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pwrrr
4y ago
Those were the times :) I remember Sodan releasing his borderscroll back then. I guess 1001 released their demo first. 1001 was always held in the highest regard by us scandinavians :)
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pwrrr
4y ago
Well the fact that you are limited by the C64 itself makes you use every bit of creativity to pull off such a demo as A Mind is Born. I think it is this limiting factor that is partly responsible for keeping the C64 scene alive. While it is
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pwrrr
4y ago
Amazing indeed! Linus always comes up with mindblowing stuff. A true genius!
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pwrrr
4y ago
Denmark was also a very nice place to grow up back then :) We had (have) a lot of legends of the 8-bit and 16-bit eras.
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pwrrr
5y ago
"You can't burn calories. Calories is a measure of heat. You can't burn heat." - Bart Kay CICO, Calories in/Calories out also doesn't work like that in the human body, because the human body is not a closed sys
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pwrrr
5y ago
Same. It is very slow, and I can't figure out how to do anyhting useful.
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pwrrr
5y ago
Amazing! I had the ZX81.
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pwrrr
5y ago
I've spend hours trying to understand how you apply this theory. The internet is surprisingly absent of actual examples showing how it's done. The best I've found that explains the packag-merge is this page: https:/
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pwrrr
5y ago
I just made a huffman encoder on the c64, for fun. I need understand how you go from the variable length codes of huffman, to suddenly fixed lenght codes, because you don't want the codes to be above a certain length. hmm...