Re: Nyan Cat

2015-12-08 Thread Dan Dooré
isk) but I wanted to add some text scroller. I'm afraid I am not going to have more time to work on it until next winter. Aley -Původní zpráva- From: Simon Owen Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 7:53 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Nyan Cat On 12/05/2012 22:34, Aleš Keprt wrote:

RE: Nyan Cat

2012-11-10 Thread Adrian Brown
Hmm, I should finish that off soon, been soo snowed under at work :( Adrian -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Simon Owen Sent: 09 November 2012 20:16 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Nyan Cat On 12/05/2012 22:34

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-11-10 Thread Aleš Keprt
next winter. Aley -Původní zpráva- From: Simon Owen Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 7:53 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Nyan Cat On 12/05/2012 22:34, Aleš Keprt wrote: We have the program done, including graphics and music. I also added a tiny text scroller and now I need

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-11-09 Thread Simon Owen
On 12/05/2012 22:34, Aleš Keprt wrote: We have the program done, including graphics and music. I also added a tiny text scroller and now I need to write some text to put there. :-) Did you ever finish this? It'd be great to see how it compares to the Speccy version. Si

RE: Nyan Cat

2012-05-14 Thread Stefan Drissen
Are you saying that you've created a youtube client for the trinity interface? ;-) -Original Message- From: owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Adrian Brown Sent: zaterdag 12 mei 2012 02:40 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: RE: Nyan Cat Ok, so

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-05-12 Thread Balor Price
Ha! Not too many takers all at once eh? I'm thinking about it... If it was an online demo party I'm not sure we could all get the time together, but I'm willing to try. Howard On 12/05/2012 01:39, Adrian Brown wrote: Ok, so who is looking at Nyan cat, I reckon if I wasn't clever and said

RE: Nyan Cat

2012-05-12 Thread Adrian Brown
19:31 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Nyan Cat Ha! Not too many takers all at once eh? I'm thinking about it... If it was an online demo party I'm not sure we could all get the time together, but I'm willing to try. Howard On 12/05/2012 01:39, Adrian Brown wrote: Ok, so who is looking

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-05-12 Thread Aleš Keprt
. A. -Původní zpráva- From: Balor Price Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2012 8:27 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Nyan Cat Ha! Not too many takers all at once eh? I'm thinking about it... If it was an online demo party I'm not sure we could all get the time together, but I'm willing to try

RE: Nyan Cat

2012-05-11 Thread Adrian Brown
Ok, so who is looking at Nyan cat, I reckon if I wasn't clever and said it was 512kb only it would take about 2 hours, to be clever on a 256kb sam it would take about 3-4. ;)

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-26 Thread Simon Owen
On 24 Apr 2012, at 21:29, Simon Owen wrote: Getting most of it running probably wouldn't take very long, but getting the timing right could be a challenge. Changing the 128K screen flips and crudely tweaking the DJNZ timing loops gives this: http://obo.homeip.net/nyanhack.gif (loop every ~4

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-24 Thread David Sanders
On 23 April 2012 21:34, Thomas Harte tomh.retros...@gmail.com wrote: If it's for some sort of quick attempt at multipart megademo (albeit with all the parts being extremely similar), would it be safe to assume that someone [else] is working on the music? I'd love to be able to contribute but

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-24 Thread Aleš Keprt
My conversion of original graphics is already finished, so I look forward to your music. :-) I wanted to ask for help the people who did music for some other 8bit conversion(s). Aley From: David Sanders Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 10:59 AM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Nyan Cat

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-24 Thread Thomas Harte
graphics is already finished, so I look forward to your music. :-) I wanted to ask for help the people who did music for some other 8bit conversion(s). Aley From: David Sanders Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 10:59 AM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Nyan Cat On 23 April 2012 21:34, Thomas

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-24 Thread Simon Owen
On 23 Apr 2012, at 21:35, James R Curry wrote: Just port the original. I've had a quick look and there are oodles of unrolled code blocks and fixed delay loops for display timing. Getting most of it running probably wouldn't take very long, but getting the timing right could be a challenge.

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-24 Thread Aleš Keprt
Subject: Re: Nyan Cat I had a brief look at it; given that the originals are 400x400 (and, as you noted, not actually simply an upscaling of a smaller size, despite consciously adopting that look), I assume you repainted by hand? On 24 April 2012 11:13, Aleš Keprt a...@keprt.cz wrote: My conversion

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-24 Thread James R Curry
The strangest decision regarding Mode 2 is keeping the BRIGHT and FLASH attributes. Without those, the Ink and Paper colours could each be any of the sixteen colours. As it is, the select colours have to both be in the range 0-7 or 8-15, not one in each range. Incidentally, has anyone thought

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-24 Thread Thomas Harte
I guess it was easy to put in something like an optional shift right by three to compose scan line number and column number when fetching attributes, hence to allow Mode 1 and 2, but would have been harder to have alternative attribute interpretation logic? I'm unsure why they decided to go bright

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-24 Thread Aleš Keprt
of the screen to show to text and then switched back to mode 4.) Aley -Původní zpráva- From: James R Curry Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 12:33 AM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Nyan Cat The strangest decision regarding Mode 2 is keeping the BRIGHT and FLASH attributes. Without those

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-24 Thread Ian Collier
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 04:16:28PM -0700, Thomas Harte wrote: I'm unsure why they decided to go bright + flash in the Spectrum, to be honest. Was flashing a must have feature of the 1982 computer market? No but you forget one thing... the

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-24 Thread Thomas Harte
Agreed on James' comments re:Wolfenstein; from here in 2012, I'm much more able to suspend by disbelief for Elite, though I think Wolfenstein's problems go far beyond merely the style of graphics. I'd also forgotten the Manic Miner loading screen! Thank goodness for the flash attribute! On 24

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-24 Thread david
Quoting Thomas Harte tomh.retros...@gmail.com: I'd also forgotten the Manic Miner loading screen! Thank goodness for the flash attribute! Wish we could have done a MODE 2 version of that with the SAM Version! :)

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-24 Thread James R Curry
Given that, at least going from my memory, there was space to spare in the original ZX Spectrum ROM, the flashing cursor in Spectrum BASIC could have quite easily been implemented with interrupts and each character square could have had complete freedom to pick any two of sixteen colours. But

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-24 Thread Thomas Harte
Per The Register's extended article celebrating the Spectrum's birthday yesterday, there was more than a kilobyte of spare space in the ROM but they intended to put the Microdrive stuff in there before shipping. In the event it wasn't ready in time and the machine sold too well for the intended

RE: Nyan Cat

2012-04-23 Thread Andrew Park
Cat I analyzed the original video - the whole animation consists of 12 frames only. So this part is easy. :-) Aley -Původní zpráva- From: Aleš Keprt Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 2:42 AM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Nyan Cat I think normal mode 4 + normal music would be OK. I

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-23 Thread Tommo H
-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no [mailto:owner-sam-us...@nvg.ntnu.no] On Behalf Of Aleš Keprt Sent: 23 April 2012 02:06 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Nyan Cat I analyzed the original video - the whole animation consists of 12 frames only. So this part is easy. :-) Aley -Původní zpráva

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-23 Thread Frode Tennebø
On 23 April 2012 17:16, Tommo H tomh.retros...@gmail.com wrote: Vaguely related: does anyone know where I can get hold of Sam dos as a binary blob, outside of a disk image, for the purposes of being able ftp://ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/sam-coupe/temp/samdos2 to assemble things conveniently? I can

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-23 Thread Simon Owen
On 23/04/2012 16:16, Tommo H wrote: Vaguely related: does anyone know where I can get hold of Sam dos as a binary blob, outside of a disk image, for the purposes of being able to assemble things conveniently? Most of my SAM projects on GitHub should include samdos2. They also use pyz80's -I

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-23 Thread Tommo H
That's exactly the build system I use, except that I'd managed to misplace my copy of dos. A quick call to open at the end and I'm straight into Sim Coupe, or at least I used to be. The SDL you've linked with appears to be broken under 10.7 in some ways, especially relating to the way the new OS

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-23 Thread Andrew Collier
On 23 April 2012 18:10, Tommo H tomh.retros...@gmail.com wrote: Re: Samdos, is it definitely legal for redistribution? I thought we had explicit clearance but I notice that it's 'not yet approved' on World of Sam. I've fixed this, it must have been overlooked previously. Dr Andy Wright gave a

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-23 Thread Aleš Keprt
This is a great idea. I am going to make it. I mean one part of it. Aley From: James R Curry Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 5:14 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Nyan Cat I'm looking forward to the Nyan Cat Megademo. 5 interpretations of Nyan Cat in one demo by five same coders

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-23 Thread Aleš Keprt
pixels so that each pixel could have any one of 16 colours in palette. Aley -Původní zpráva- From: Tommo H Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 5:16 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Nyan Cat The graphics are no problem whatsoever but the sound would be completely beyond me. Listening

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-23 Thread Balor Price
On 23/04/2012 20:42, Aleš Keprt wrote: Yes there is a vocal. The problem is that 4x4 is too low resolution to reproduce the original animation with all detail. You actually need 2x2 to reproduce the whole original or 3x3 if you can live with parts being cut on top and bottom. Looks like the

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-23 Thread david
Quoting Balor Price toberm...@cookingcircle.co.uk: Hang on, am I really doing this??!! (reality kicks in) Hell no!! Not until I finish some /real/ stuff anyway Howard Do a send-up using the SAM Robot instead! :)

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-23 Thread Thomas Harte
If it's for some sort of quick attempt at multipart megademo (albeit with all the parts being extremely similar), would it be safe to assume that someone [else] is working on the music? I'd love to be able to contribute but music is completely beyond me. Re: Aley's comments on a 4bpp 64-byte

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-23 Thread James R Curry
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 3:24 PM, da...@properbastard.co.uk wrote: Quoting Balor Price toberm...@cookingcircle.co.uk**: Hang on, am I really doing this??!! (reality kicks in) Hell no!! Not until I finish some /real/ stuff anyway Howard Do a send-up using the SAM Robot instead! :) I

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-23 Thread Simon Owen
On 23 Apr 2012, at 18:10, Tommo H tomh.retros...@gmail.com wrote: The SDL you've linked with appears to be broken under 10.7 in some ways, especially relating to the way the new OS supplies help in restoring sessions It might be worth checking you're using SimCoupe 1.0a for OS X, as that was

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-22 Thread James R Curry
There are few enough frames that it could easily be done with screen swapping with a sampled version of the music playing. -- James R Curry On Apr 22, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Aleš Keprt a...@keprt.cz wrote: Do we have Nyan Cat on Sam Coupe? Somebody should make a conversion.

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-22 Thread Andrew Collier
so this is what people do on the internet these days, is it? Actually it does remind me a bit of the kind of stuff that ended up on early issues of Fred... You'd need to draw the stars manually, but that should be achievable. Andrew On 22 Apr 2012, at 19:45, James R Curry wrote: There

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-22 Thread Tommo H
Based on the Spectrum version, you could probably do it in Mode 1 or 2, just using the attributes? On 22 Apr 2012, at 13:32, Andrew Collier and...@intensity.org.uk wrote: so this is what people do on the internet these days, is it? Actually it does remind me a bit of the kind of stuff

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-22 Thread Andrew Collier
Yeah, 4-pixel squares in mode 2 would be easy enough. An authentic facsimile in Mode 1 would be tricky as there are squares with more than 2 colours in. Achievable with rainbow processing, but that seems a bit of a faff... Andrew On 22 Apr 2012, at 21:34, Tommo H wrote: Based on the

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-22 Thread Aleš Keprt
we would draw just stars. Plus standard music, samples aren't needed for this. So who is going to do it? :-))) A. -Původní zpráva- From: Andrew Collier Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 10:57 PM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Nyan Cat Yeah, 4-pixel squares in mode 2 would be easy

Re: Nyan Cat

2012-04-22 Thread Aleš Keprt
I analyzed the original video - the whole animation consists of 12 frames only. So this part is easy. :-) Aley -Původní zpráva- From: Aleš Keprt Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 2:42 AM To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Nyan Cat I think normal mode 4 + normal music would be OK. I