Octogenarian - Expected End November 2024
What Is It?
Octogenarian is my next (second) MegaDemo. When I finished Better Late Than Never, I had a bundle of routines, artwork and ideas left over. After taking some inspiration from other screens on other retro-platforms, I commenced coding during Christmas of 2023.
Whilst I always just wanted to "finish" my first production and keep it full of old-school charm, this is a bit different. I've tried to make it look more polished and slightly more in keeping with some of the more modern Atari demos - but don't be surprised if some scrolltext still manages to sneak in somewhere!
Whilst I always just wanted to "finish" my first production and keep it full of old-school charm, this is a bit different. I've tried to make it look more polished and slightly more in keeping with some of the more modern Atari demos - but don't be surprised if some scrolltext still manages to sneak in somewhere!
Screenshot from a work in progress. It might look totally different by the time it's released!
Recycling - it's good for the planet, yeah?
The demo is six screens in a sequence - no menu this time.
The coding is one thing, but the work I've done on the presentation seems to take as long as the original main demo itself!
As before, this will be 100% STOS - although there's a loader that I've written to chain it together, written in 68K assembly which avoids those awful white blank screens inbetween each section.
All graphics have been done by myself. Music has been taken from either the SND or MOD archives.
The coding is one thing, but the work I've done on the presentation seems to take as long as the original main demo itself!
As before, this will be 100% STOS - although there's a loader that I've written to chain it together, written in 68K assembly which avoids those awful white blank screens inbetween each section.
All graphics have been done by myself. Music has been taken from either the SND or MOD archives.
8th November 2024 Update
A few days ago I finished the final screen and tweaked some of the code in the loader. We're just about there. Because there's no menu in this release and the whole thing runs on a sort of carousel, I'm now testing the whole thing as a unit, letting it run continuously and ironing out any oddities I find.
I'm looking to release it before the end of the month. Anything left to fix is merely my own pickiness, in an effort to try and make it look as polished as I can - looking forward to it getting out there and supporting the Atari scene!
A momentary bout of inspiration that led to a screen getting completed in three weeks!