STrange roboTS : Atari STe higeSTcolor demo

[Cyg]

Hi !

We just released and bugfixed our last hicolor prod on the lovely Atari STe.

Featuring 100s of colors on each screen, and I hope you will agree, a better rendering & design.

You can download it or watch it at DHS Tv or Youtube from Pouet : http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=62142

Let's start the next demo !
Cyg

[Cyprian]

really impressive

[Brume]

I agree with Cyprian: have seen this demo a few days ago and I must admit it's probably one of the best demos I've ever seen on STe.

[Dal]

2013 has been a great year for the Atari platform. Thanks for another great release Cyg!

[DarkLord]

Agreed with everyone above, and many thanks for all your hard work,
but I have to ask...why "last"?

[CiH]

Agreed with everyone above, and many thanks for all your hard work,
but I have to ask...why "last"?

I think that's just a simple mistranslation. 'Last' in this context means 'previous' or 'current' rather than 'final'.

Let's start the next demo !
Cyg

The meaning here is clear!

[DarkLord]

Ah, okay - guess I just read it the wrong way.

I'm glad its not.

[Cyg]

Thank you for your support !

I confirm, it's not the last, it's just the last in date for the moment.

Cyg

[dma]

I confirm, it's not the last, it's just the last in date for the moment.

"latest" is the word then.

[calimero]

is there any chance to make it work on falcon?

it run but screen is mess!

[Cyg]

Thanks DMA-SC

No chance it will work on Falcon, it's too close to the CPU timings and video capabilities, sorry...

[AtariZoll]

Impressive demo, indeed.
Now, some bad thing: on Mega STE it works not well, likely because some slightly different clock. Machine is PAL, just to say. I can not test it on STE at moment.

strrobsMSTE.jpg

There are some bad pixels in regular Steem, while in later Steem SSE it is flawless. So, I guess that you solved that wake up state shifts and timing well
Video on YouTube - is it recorded from real STE ?

[Cyg]

AtariZoll, thanks for your capture.
Did you try the MegaSTE version, it can be download from here : http://top250filmsdvd.com/atari/STRGMSTE.prg
Only the rotozoom part should be crap, as in your capture.

Cyg

[calimero]

Thanks DMA-SC

No chance it will work on Falcon, it's too close to the CPU timings and video capabilities, sorry...

ok, than I will bring my STe on table for this occasion
(I do not want to watch youtube or emulators )

[bullis1]

I was also having problems watching on MSTE. I'll try the other version as well. I do like what I saw on the DHS video DB.

[Dal]

In desperation to see this demo, I quickly grabbed an STE, UltraSatan and a SCART cable before I left the house yesterday for a 2-day business trip.

I arrived at my hotel, hooked it all up to the LCD TV only to find it refuse to sync reliably to the STE, leaving me with a jittery screen. No good at all!

Cue the theme from "A-Team"...
Luckily, the SCART lead has an Audio lead running from the SCART plug to the RCA audio outs on the STE. As the TV out is also an RCA connector, I had a plan...

After routing around, I found a small piece of wire (actually, using nail clippers, I stole a few inches off the antenna wire from the alarm clock radio - we won't tell the hotel though).

After cutting this newly acquired 'off-cut' into 2 pieces and stripping off the 4 ends, I popped open the SCART connector, wrapped one piece of wire around pin 1, and the other around pin 3 - the electronic-savvy among you will recognise this as the Left audio input and Audio Ground. I then found a way of securing the bare ends to the Antenna input socket on the TV. All that was left was to plug the left audio cable into the TV out from the ST and let auto-tune find CH36.

Job done and worth the effort!

Here's my modded cable:

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I love it when a plan comes together!

[Cyg]

Impressive cable !
I hope it worth the effort

[AtariZoll]

I tried MSTE version on Mega STE - it is fine most of time, except small rotozoom part, mentioned.
But there is lot of pixel errors through whole demo playback, when machine is in warm wake-up state - and it is in which STE machines are most .

waksterrs.jpg

That's why I asked on what HW is video made. And I will help to fix those timing problems in conversion SW - as you know Cyg, 'shiftpixels' setting works not in mode 0. And there are some errors with mode 2 at mostright pixels in lines. All it should be really not hard.
Some use special mask files with problematic pixel positions regarding wake-up states, like Photochrome. It is good way, but decreases available colors for those pixel positions. I think that doing conversions for warm wake-up state of STE is fine, and will give little better quality. Only that users should take care, and turn off machine for short if there are bad pixels. There will be same bad pixels in regular Steem 3.2 . But Steem SSE has support for diverse wake-up states, so you can test on it, and will have same output as on real STE in warm wake-up state.

[wongck]

waksterrs.jpg

LOL,,,, Other than the pixel errors... looks great !!!

[guythp]

I must confess I have only watched the youtube version as my STe is up in the attic, but I must say that is the most impressive demos I've seen.

Utterly fantastic work and I look forward to seeing more! (and I will get the ST out to see it on the real hardware I promise!)

[micv2]

Hello, I'm new here..

All Ste demos work fine on my 1040 ste with 4MB RAM and Ultrasatan. Only this demo has graphic errors in the upper area, why? Is my STE broken?
Best regards

[Cyg]

Hi, back almost 10years after here and saw the feedback from micv2,

Sorry I don't know exactly about your issue, it looks like the top screen pixels are corrupted with some memory stuff that shouldn't be placed there ?

I may re-open my old Hicolor framework in the next weeks/months to check/arrange it better, STrange roboTS was not planed to be the last, so something is missing

Cyg / BLaBla

[HospesSTE]

If the author has successfully returned to the forum , I will still ask for a link to a working version of the demo for the Atari MegaSTE. All the links I found have unfortunately already expired:/
Hospes / MSB