SillyPack 2k12 released

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Published: Thursday, 17 January 2013 00:00
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This pack contains a disk image in MyDos format with all Atari 8-bit releases of SillyVenture 2k12. The disk was originally compiled by PIN/TRISTESSE. I felt this is a good idea and SillyVenture deserves a good presentation, esp. the graphics and music releases for which no art pack/music disk exists. This is an updated version with a proper results viewer which also acts as a menu from where you can directly start all releases and read the readmes. The menu remains memory resident, so you don't have to load it again every time. This makes watching the graphics entries and listening to the music entries much more fun, esp. on the real machine. These are the controls for the menu:

  • Pressing any key during loading the menu takes you to the DOS shell.
  • Pressing RESET in the menu performs a cold start.
  • Pressing RESET in while a release is running returns to menu, if possible.
  • Further controls are displayed in the menu itself.


SillyPack 2k12

RGBA - 1st place and final version released

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Published: Monday, 24 December 2012 00:00
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RGBA yielded the 1st place in the Atari Intro Competition at SillyVenture. Though the party version was way tooooo long, the youtube video of RGBA got 1000 views in only one week! And in two late-night coding sessions I have now re-synced the whole thing. The result is the final version which has 4 times faster transitions, less text and much a better pace. The new version including the sources are available on the Atari 8-bit tab. And the best thing for me after all was finding this one. A true Atari guy stunned by the unexpected demo ending. It really made my day :-)

[65XE] WTF? Crazy Demo Crash Craziness!!

RGBA - Rasters Girls Beer Atari released at SillyVenture 2012

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Published: Sunday, 09 December 2012 00:00
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Once again I totally failed. Once I again I decided to enter a limited size competition because "with less space I'll be done earlier". With 10974 lines of final code, this became the largest project I've ever had so far - once again :-). All packed into 16k together with 2 girls, great music by 505 and a nice 70'ies Disco font by OOZ giving 7 minutes of effects. Fun fact: The original of the KickStart ending screen was coded 21 years ago to the day - back in 1991 on my Amiga 500 in my teenage room.

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The download archive is available on the Atari 8-bit tab and contains a pre-configured Altirra emulator. I strongly recommend using real hardware and TV set or Altirra if that's not possible. I also created a youtube video, but as usual 30 FPS cannot give you the real feeling and smoothness.

RGBA on youtube - frame-blended recording

Fujiama 2012 - Lots of code, fun and beer

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Published: Tuesday, 14 August 2012 00:00
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Fujiama was simply great again. I finally met 505 of Checkpoint in person, made some WUDSN customers like happy (hi 1ng), made some "prospects" new customers also (hi Norbert, I'm 'looking forward to the final Asteroids emulator) and got to know new coders (hi RA). Sascha created a great time lapse video. Click on the image below to watch it online. By the way, the small green point that doesn't move away from the keyboard all the time is me :-)

Fujiama time lapse video

Radek - you are not forgotten

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Published: Saturday, 28 July 2012 00:00
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One year ago, Radek Štěrba, also known as R.A.S.T.E.R., left us forever. In a few days we all will be be at the Fujiama Party - and we all will remember you. This year in in all the years to come.