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Codey
Registered: Oct 2005
Posts: 79 |
Best Use of Colorbars
in an attempt to keep this forum alive, what's the best use of $d020/$d021 colorbars you've seen. i'm not talking about split rasters or any of the $d011 tricks, but basic manipulation of the the background colors. what used rotations, shading, multiple layers, etc. for example, i was always a fan of stormbringer's xds intro for the fact it kept track of two separate layers. feel free to add on.
Exodus Intro
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JackAsser
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 2014 |
I can't point out any cool ways of using colorbars right now but I also would like to add that I love them and any suggestions in this thread are most welcome by both me and Codey. ;D |
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Wisdom
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 90 |
Probably the best usage of raster colors was in the classic Papillons intro:
Beyond the Ice Palace +2
As for something more complex, Ikari / Paninaro intros come to mind:
Ikari Intro
Paninaro Intro
The NATO intro linked to the following release, it is simple but quite nice:
Ironhand
And the classic FBR intro:
FBR Intro (TLD)
PS. Ok, I had to edit this post a few times, as each time I saved changes, I remembered something more to mention. |
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Graham
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Registered: Dec 2002
Posts: 990 |
I think the intro of Magic Disk 64 issue 11/89 (written by Ivo Herzeg) is one of the best uses of rasterbars. Sadly it's not on CSDb. |
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Tao
Registered: Aug 2002
Posts: 115 |
Chunk's SCG intro, definitely.
Grand Prix Circuit +F
Is an example. Maybe not overly advanced, but very well made, and good looking.
Hmmm, I guess I should fire up vim and start hacking together some rasterbar-code =) |
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Frantic
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 1648 |
Best rasterbars on LCP wins! ;) |
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Higgie
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 127 |
i have to agree with tao. it's such a polished intro! and i'm not able to come up with a better use of raster bars, sorry. |
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Mace
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799 |
What Higgie says.
Totally. |
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Sander
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 496 |
Better wait! There'll be a lot of raster stuff in the future. And not only speaking for myself here :)
The return of the raster is imminent. |
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T.M.R
Account closed
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 749 |
Aww bog off, i threatened to release a raster demo for years and everyone complained - now they're bloody "in" again!! [Sulks] |
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TPM
Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 110 |
i love the bars of New Limits by TST :)
New Limits |
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Twoflower
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 434 |
I'm in with Sander here. Rasterbars is bound to be the new black - I even tried to convince Pernod that this was the case on last BFP, but he didn't believe me. His loss.
And yeah, I love both Chunks SCG intro and Tri-Dos Ikari intro. S.E.S. also made some really good rasterstuff for both Fear and G*P. |
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Turtle
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Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 70 |
I'd suggest these good old intros:
Dynamic Duo Intro
The Light Circle Intro
The Light Circle Intro
Remember, they are from 1986 (damn, 22 years ago!!)
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Stainless Steel
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 966 |
I'm surprised nobody mentioned UPFRONT yet.
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Twoflower
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 434 |
Upfront, yes. Toaster is still a true rasterbar-classic. |
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yago
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 333 |
As Games are not explicitly excluded...
parallax!
http://gb64.com/game.php?id=5558
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Codey
Registered: Oct 2005
Posts: 79 |
that toaster page was nuts. alot of different raster stuff going on there. i liked the scg intro too using perspective. |
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Partz
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Registered: Jun 2008
Posts: 17 |
Well if games are included then my vote goes to Andrew Braybrooks Alleykat. It wasn't that it did anything particular clever with the colour bars, it was just the use of colour itself. So often demos would stick to the boring green, blue, red, grey shades for bars - the G in the graftgold logo on Alleykat had some nice rainbow style colour scheme flowing through it. One thing though, the high score table appears to strobe the top and bottom line of the colour bars in some of the entries. Was this intentional or was this a genuine timing issue?
It's only recently that i've got decent bars done myself (25 years later :-/ ). Even now I dont have the time or patience to fully understand/bother with a cycle perfect stable raster so I just use a look up table of delays - I set up an area of memory which will contain the colour data and set everything to black/white on alternate bytes - I squeeze out the glitches from this which are easily identifiable by subtle adjustments in my delay table. |
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Mace
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799 |
Hmm... Upfront... yeah!
Mixer is an even better example of cool use of rasterbars. Check that intro! |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11386 |
i always loved the intro of the omega man. (Mega Apocalypse +2) |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5094 |
my 2 cents:
The Megademo
4Kunden |
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fade
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Registered: Mar 2002
Posts: 290 |
Fantastic Colors perhaps? |
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The Shadow
Registered: Oct 2007
Posts: 304 |
A subject on an old school style, now we're talking! The old school scene was awesome.
Codey: that Exodus intro you linked into your first post on this topic has some of the prettiest of all raster bar colors.
Here are a couple more done with the same appeal...
http://intros.c64.org/inc_download.php?iid=385
and wait, one more...
http://intros.c64.org/inc_download.php?iid=2152
Stormbringer was the raster master! |
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Quetzal
Registered: Jul 2002
Posts: 71 |
It's pretty simple stuff now, but back in the old days I remember being blown away by the Drive intro on Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
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Sander
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 496 |
Some fine jewelry here - thanks!
Ofcourse Splitter should be on this list :) I remember Hazor having done more interesting rastertricks.
It's nice to read the scrollers in both Splitter and Charlatan - to read the bg story about it (release almost around the same time by).
Edit: One Hazor demo i was talking about Shitsplit. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11386 |
by the far the best is in Ass-o-chrome ofcourse :o) |
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Mace
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799 |
Since we're now summing up cool rasterdemos anyway, I can't let this opporunity go by.
Check out Exuberat from my fellow Secure member Stratford. |
