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Fjälldata 2025
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C64 Demo Competition at Fjälldata 2025 : #2
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Submitted by Yogibear on 9 February 2025
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Submitted by Digger on 5 February 2025
| <spoiler>I love how "obvious" it is that the 3 "fake" sprites in the upper border are always on the same Y line, but since they're behind other sprites, it's unnoticeable.</spoiler> |
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Submitted by The Syndrom on 5 February 2025
| outstanding presentation, love every bit of it, the petscii wizard, the music and the flow. even thought for a second lft really had found a way to get rid of the 8 sprite limit... ;-) |
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Submitted by HCL on 5 February 2025
| Love this! So pedagogic, yet i still can not get it how this is done. Even though this looked awesome on the big screen, I was quite convinced that it would be obvious when watching on emu back home, rendering two sprites into one in multicolor (with less resolution), or something, but i can not see it! Excellent! |
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Submitted by Danzig on 5 February 2025
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Submitted by WVL on 5 February 2025
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Submitted by redcrab on 5 February 2025
This is exactly how to entertain me!
I love it when a demopart tells me what to be impressed by, and this one makes me SO excited! <3 |
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Submitted by trident on 5 February 2025
i, for one, welcome our new multiplexius overlords!
this is the latest in a long line of demos that appear to display more than 8 sprites on a single raster line, using a variety of tricks: Mentallic , One Year Camelot 3 , Crest Avantgarde , A Game of Ten , Sir Epsilon , Nine , The Ghost , Rocketry , Krestage 3 - More Weird Stuff , Justintime , GULBdata just to name a few.
and it is such an incredible show - the cute wizard, the music that builds up to the dramatic climax of the demo, and of course the magic trick itself! it was such a joy to watch this in person at fjälldata and feel the tension rising, seeing how the sprites first briefly jumped out into the sideborders, and all the while knowing that those nine sprites eventually would end up either in the upper or lower border. every one knew it would happen - and the crowd went crazy when it finally did.
the demo not only excels in its dramaturgy, but also pushes boundaries in terms of the magic trick itself. while the underlying techniques may be known to a handful of fellow magicians, the way that they are combined here, particularly with the sprite colors and the movement is new - this level of movement with 24 pixel wide sprites simply has not been done before. this also goes for the movement in the y direction of the overlaid sprites, which requires some form of dysp timing to work, making it even trickier to implement. when developing an effect of this kind, you always find yourself in nasty cycle bug hell and i'm sure there are a bunch of smaller tricks in there too - knowing the level of trickery we've seen with other sprite tricks from lft. very much hoping for and looking forward to a write-up and to hear the thoughts behind it all.
also, all the other action on the screen is a feat in itself - the sideborder sprites, the software sprites, and - particularly - the extremely smooth transitions between the different modes of the effect.
so this means that ten sprites is the new frontier now, right? |
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Submitted by TheRyk on 4 February 2025
| yeah, old idea perfectly executed in a most charming way, btw gotta <3 that sorcerer animation, cool 1 man show! |
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Submitted by Digger on 4 February 2025
| When I discovered it uses sprite crunching and saw the sprite data shuffles, my head exploded. Only LFT could do such a thing. |
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Submitted by Martin Piper on 4 February 2025
I thought this demo would get #1 it's such an interesting technical and styled masterpiece.
I've got an "extra" video on my channel that goes into more detail. But it's members only for a few days. |
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Submitted by Dymo on 4 February 2025
| Really nice LFT… doing your magic, fab demo… :D |
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Submitted by Slammer on 3 February 2025
| Really nice trick and presention - i really enjoyed it. I'm glad the analysis didn't reveal it all. Martin have great presentation skills and is very entertaining to listen to, but i think the video came too soon. It spoils the magic if someone hands you a tutorial on the way out of the magicshow. (There are probably some crackers who think its about speedy realeases but to me its a different genre). |
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Submitted by PAL on 3 February 2025
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Submitted by Brush on 3 February 2025
| It would be a great fx just on it's own. But combined with the presentation and tons of polish - this is a real gem! |
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Submitted by HBH.ZTH on 3 February 2025
| Clever. Nicely done. BTW is the source-code been released or do we have to get our hands dirty into the MC monitor or Debugger PC tool? |
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Submitted by grip on 3 February 2025
| Misdirection, sleight of hand, showmanship! Also, the magician is cute. It's a ten for Nine. :) |
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Submitted by lft on 3 February 2025
Thanks everyone for the nice comments, both here and at the party!
Thanks WVL for linking to the analysis video. It was a joy to watch, and he figures out a large part of the demo, just not the impossible bit. =) |
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Submitted by Stone on 3 February 2025
| To me, this is the perfect demopart. |
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Submitted by JackAsser on 3 February 2025
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Submitted by WVL on 3 February 2025
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Submitted by Scrap on 3 February 2025
| before even watching it, only by reading the name of the creator, I knew that something great is waiting to be seen! :-) Wow, great trickery. What a multi talented person! |
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Submitted by katon on 3 February 2025
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Submitted by Raistlin on 3 February 2025
Codep0rn! Wow. Now this is nice! I can't wait for the write up for what in the heck is going on here.
I'm not really much of a VIC-trick coder myself .. so I'm especially baffled by this.
Even if I force MC sprites off, and remove double-width sprites, what I'm looking at is UNPOSSIBLE. What the heck is this magic??? I'm thinking MC sprites, double-width, $d021 rasters, ghostbyte etc etc .. but it's -still- not enough combined.. surely?
10/10.
Amazeballs. |
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Submitted by DKT on 2 February 2025
| I just love to watch how LFT plays his fav toy, it's always a magical experience. |
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Submitted by Jetboy on 2 February 2025
PURE MAGIC!
That makes me wonder, where would humanity be if super clever people like LFT would use their skills on solving real life problems instead of making demos...
anyway, looking for a blogpost that explains why there is spritecrunching involved |
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Submitted by Clarence on 2 February 2025
Very nice LFT quality! Somehow reminds me of Nine. ;)
Of course this has wider sprites, but they are severely limited in how they must look and move, compared to mine. |
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Submitted by Shine on 2 February 2025
Well, i don't know anything about Code-Wizardry, BUT
I LOVE THIS PRESENTATION!!! <3 |
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Submitted by Pad on 2 February 2025
| LFT - The renaissance man of the C64. Seeing this live at the party was worth every one of the 15 hours in the car to attend. Excellent. |
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Submitted by papapower on 2 February 2025
| so good, and so nicely introduced. Thanks Linus for bringing us this goodness ! |
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Submitted by mankeli on 2 February 2025
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Submitted by Jammer on 2 February 2025
| My guess is also that visible area has mixture of sprites and chars whereas in the upper border it's one of the sprites expanded and masked with ghostbyte. Jaw dropped :O |
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Submitted by Skate on 2 February 2025
| Very impressive. I knew what was coming as soon as i read the title "nine" and "lft". :) |
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Submitted by Bob on 2 February 2025
beautiful elegant subtle!
great presentation!
very enjoyable to watch |
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Submitted by The Sarge on 2 February 2025
This one is special! Perfect execution on all levels! LFT being this unimaginable guy who can do all by himself.
A demo to remember for a long long time. For me this is magic and I have no clue how it was done. |
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Submitted by aeeben on 2 February 2025
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Submitted by Digger on 2 February 2025
Wow, this blew my mind! Amazing presentation with dynamic sprite trajectories. My guess would be multiple different routines with ECM ghostbyte, clock-slide and $d016 for the digit 1 in the top border. Very clever!
Now waiting for 10 😝 |
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Submitted by Youth on 2 February 2025
| Well presented, like a true magician! |
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Submitted by Jetboy on 2 February 2025
Had similar train of thoughts as DeeKay :)
I haven't looked it on the debugger, but i think there are several techniques used and switched at the right moments. Like normal multiplexing, and painting them all on a 8 sprites wide canvas in multicolor, or something like that. That's my guess.
Uberawesome! |
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Submitted by Smasher on 2 February 2025
| I'm dreaming, don't wake me up! |
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Submitted by Cruzer on 2 February 2025
| Great trick, that isn't immediately obvious, which is quite a feat on a platform where so many tricks have been done. I haven't looked at the code yet, and I won't, since it ruins the fun, but it seems a little sus that the sprites are this close together, so maybe that's a clue. :) Also very cute and lovely execution. |
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Submitted by WVL on 2 February 2025
| Hmmm.. I have the feeling Multiplexius is deceiving us :-) |
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Submitted by DeeKay on 2 February 2025
| Oh wow.. Love the dramaturgy of this.. First you say "ok, simple multiplexer, or one of those is charset, no biggie, so can you put them in the border?".. Which he then does, but there's still some on the screen at the same time, so those might still be charset.. and then he puts them on the same line and moves them all into the upper border! ;-D Which I have no idea how he does it.. I'm guessing ghostbyte splitting or the Panoramic $d016 thing, since he does not flash the border to anything else than black, but all sprites are 3 chars wide, so.. how?? |
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Submitted by Krill on 2 February 2025
Crafty illusionist, this. :)
Great old-style but still fresh presentation reminding of Barbaric . |
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Submitted by Samurai on 2 February 2025
Magnificient short demo, you made the most of the limited time and the 9…
…when the music blooms and opens up at the 2 min mark I get chills down my spine and Lunatic feelings ❤ |
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Submitted by Tom-Cat on 2 February 2025
| Wow... LFT brings it again. Umpossible :) Also it works on Ultimate64, who would of thought. |
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Submitted by Walt on 2 February 2025
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Submitted by celticdesign on 2 February 2025
| Wizadry and excellent music! |
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Submitted by iAN CooG on 2 February 2025
| Not possible. :D Clever trick |
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Submitted by 4gentE on 2 February 2025
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Submitted by Hate Bush on 2 February 2025
| no write-up? without one i'm only able to say: what a cute wizard you have there ;) |
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Submitted by Quiss on 2 February 2025
| Gosh, that's beautiful. Excellent presentation and style. |
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Submitted by ChristopherJam on 2 February 2025
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Submitted by anonym on 2 February 2025
| I love this. So a great presentation and effect. Wanted to vote it a 10, but somehow it kept on going back to 9 ;) |
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Submitted by chatGPZ on 2 February 2025
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Submitted by wysiwtf on 2 February 2025
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