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Written by Arciel Rekman on 2024-11-27 at 19:37

Grongy's gone wide with his amazing Speccy pixel art: https://www.reddit.com/r/zxspectrum/comments/1gmijo3/some_of_my_zx_spectrum_artwork/

Surprising (or not?) that many people cannot believe this is drawn according to the ZX Spectrum screen limitations.

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Written by Arciel Rekman on 2024-09-07 at 02:33

Somehow in my mind I still had the wrong idea that "modern" Amiga demos (modern here meaning not "old school", i.e. targeting 68060 + Fast RAM + RTG) are still playing 4 channel ProTracker or such modules for their soundtrack.

Whereas in reality they have long (since early 2000s) switched to an ADPCM player (mp3/ogg being too expensive for the CPU): https://github.com/Kalmalyzer/adpcm-68k

Overall, I found this old interview with Kalms insightful: https://dhs.nu/misc.php?t=special&feature=kalms

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Written by Arciel Rekman on 2024-08-28 at 02:25

2024 is the year of 8-bit raytracers. I made one too, for my beloved ZX Speccy. It is less than 1 KiB and works in under 45 sec. It even won a democompo: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=97613

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