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Details
- Loader
- Background grid zooms and unzooms while loading and depacking
- Depacking is done at 16mhz on Mega STe machines
- The soundtrack is a great adaptation by Sinis of a musik by Eric Sera from the film "Nikita". It is played at
12,5kHz oversampled at 25kHz.
- Too bad the FDC routines do not work fully with interuptions, loading process would have be
faster.
- 68000 source code
- Disk 2 & 3 bootsector
- The executable boot sector on disk 2 & 3 displays an endless zooming message drawn with the blitter "Insert disk 1".
- In the upper part of the screen a little color gradient is done changing the background color during VBL.
- Code size for this little effect is 508 bytes : the whole code & data fit into the boot sector (510 max).
- 68000 source code
- Fast menu
- Quite unusual in demos, this menu runs in 640x200x4 (medium resolution).
The intrinsic lack of colors of this graphic mode is compensated by the use of
a plasma routine changing two colors at a time (background and text colors).
On the other side this "80 columns" mode offers a better resolution for texts.
- Plasma uses the technique of blitter plasma (uses blitter to change colors)
with code generation to compensate Mega STE blitter cycles differences.
- We have intentionally de-synchronized the plasma routine because it gives
better movement effects
- 68000 source code
Credits
- Loader
- Code : METAL AGES - POSITRONIC - PIPOZOR (FDC routines)
- Graphix : BRAIN BLASTER - METAL AGES
- Musik : SINIS
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Bootsectors
- Code : METAL AGES
- Graphix : METAL AGES
- Fast menu
- Code : KRAG & METAL AGES (optimisations)
- Graphix : METAL AGES
- Putting together
- Code : METAL AGES
- Data management : METAL AGES