Monday, March 10, 2008

Fuel for imagination

I have stumbled upon "Atomic Playboy" tune from Second Reality demo.
Suddenly lots of memories came back to my mind about the golden ages when I was trying to imitate the creations of the demogroups. Together with Vale, Raul, Adi and the younger Radu wwe were able to do almost all the magic from the demos. I have learnt assembly language, tricks to use it in 32bits mode (db 66), flat real memory and protected mode. The machine used was a 386sx with two megabytes of RAM and no SB. I have tried to emulate the SB using the PC speaker but the result were mediocre and full of clicks clacks.
In the meantime I got fascinated by the Dune II game and I started to write a game in Pascal and Assembler that I have proudly called "Mud Wars". Never finished. No sound, idiotic AI, barbare graphics...
Then a couple of months later I have bought my first PC and I bought also a ISA soundcard with Analog Devices chipset (although I wished for SB Vivra 16 or Gravis Ultrasound).
I was amazed then by the sound richness of tracked music...
Since then... No more multimedia programming - but I really wish I will have the time to do it again.
I still want to thank to those that fueled my imagination and made me learn more about computers:
Future Crew, Valhalla, Black Lotus and all other demo scene groups.

5 comments:

  1. du-te tu... nu cred... sunt mut de uimire si admiratie...

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  2. eu sunt alt anonim decat cel de mai sus..cine-o fi primul anonim oare..
    ...
    poate jucam un demo ceva de la "Mud Wars"

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  3. maister, orice vorba de a ta ma face sa zambesc :)
    un al treilea anonim, altul decat primii doi
    Pot sa dau eu berea pentru primul anonim?
    Sau mai bine, what'a hack ... dau bere la toti anonimii

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  4. Eu sunt alergic la bere asa ca poti sa dai o vodca.
    Poate asa nu o sa mai conteze sunetul ala cu click si clack

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  5. Stiai ca... "Compania "Intel" dupa aparitia procesoarelor Pentium I, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium IV si Pentium V, a hotarat sa elaboreze "Pentium se intoarce""...?

    Primul anonim... ;)

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