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Graphics Tricks from Boomers


Technical details about a recent 4096bytes Atari-STE intro, by Arnaud Carré

If something is not possible you can imagine freaks from the demoscene will try to break the limits :) In late 80, some pioneer demo crews like Level16, Sync, ST-Connexion and others did the impossible! But thanks to the reverse engineering work or many people in the 90’ ( Alien, Troed, LjBK and others ) I can show you a high level view of the internal state machine of the video chip hardware: It generates a 4000 lines assembly source file with the right blitter commands, at the right place in between the fullscreen resolution & refresh rate change.

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