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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2980 |
Holy Grails
I've been wondering about them, with some having been finally discovered, others not yet, and some probably going to remain in the realm of the impossible forever.
I'm speaking of things like:
- 320x200x16 graphics without restrictions
- Crash-free all-direction hardware scrolling
- Digi replay of 8-bit samples at one register write per sample and without requiring cycle accuracy
on standard vanilla hardware, of course.
Some examples of discovered grails are:
- Cube rotating at 50 fps about 3 axes
- The 9th sprite (with some restrictions)
- On-the-fly standard GCR block read+decode+checksumming
As for definition, they all satisfy some measure of being perfect or optimal or being possible after all, with no further improvements required, possible or necessary. But i'm not so sure if that definition holds water with regard to some of the examples i listed. :D
The question is, what other Holy Grails are there, already discovered or still elusive?
What are your pet grails you've been chasing after for decades or have found eventually? :) |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5094 |
Quote: Yeah! FD-tunnel. I think Oswalds 8x8 attempt is the closest so far
that's by Bubis, and in 4x4 :) |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2980 |
Quoting Oswaldthat's by Bubis, and in 4x4 :) Not calculated to 8x8 and then interpolated to 4x4? =) |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5094 |
Quote: Quoting Oswaldthat's by Bubis, and in 4x4 :) Not calculated to 8x8 and then interpolated to 4x4? =)
exactly. |
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JackAsser
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 2014 |
Quote: that's by Bubis, and in 4x4 :)
Oh, sorry Bubis! :D |
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CreaMD
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 3057 |
True Hires/MultiColor bitmap split (without visible gaps to cover bugs) / text wrap around images. Counts as a holy grail to me. See the animated gif screenshot for what I mean.
Dawn #1 |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5094 |
graffity did mcol and gfxmode split way earlier than this. |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2980 |
Maybe Holy Grails and world-firsts aren't quite the same thing. :) |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5094 |
btw VIC does some weird stuff when changing from mc to hires, or when making gaps with d016, anyone ever used those? holy grail :) |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2980 |
I think Crossbow used something like that to have more than 320 pixels worth of char/bitmap graphics per rasterline. |
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JackAsser
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 2014 |
Quote: btw VIC does some weird stuff when changing from mc to hires, or when making gaps with d016, anyone ever used those? holy grail :)
Some of the mode bits are delays 2 or 4 pixels due to implementation details in the very undocumented pixel pipeline. I did a fair share of assumtions when coding my emu. |
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