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2008-05-29 02:56
Codey

Registered: Oct 2005
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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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2008-06-05 11:39
Partz
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Registered: Jun 2008
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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.
2008-06-05 13:06
Mace

Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799
Hmm... Upfront... yeah!
Mixer is an even better example of cool use of rasterbars. Check that intro!
2008-06-05 13:28
chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11386
i always loved the intro of the omega man. (Mega Apocalypse +2)
2008-06-05 21:33
Oswald

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5094
my 2 cents:

The Megademo

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2008-06-06 02:50
fade
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Registered: Mar 2002
Posts: 290
Fantastic Colors perhaps?
2008-06-06 04:01
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!
2008-06-06 10:22
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

2008-06-06 10:33
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.
2008-06-06 13:01
chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11386
by the far the best is in Ass-o-chrome ofcourse :o)
2008-06-06 14:26
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.
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