Bold MSX demo

At the Alternative Party a new demo by dvik&joyrex was released. The demo ended 1st in the Alternative demo competition where it competed against demos for a variety of platforms, including C64, Atari ST, and PC. This together with all the cool demonstrations NYYRIKKI and his team provided at the party is a great success for the MSX platform.

Relevant link: dvik&joyrex website
Relevant link: Bold MSX demo at YouTube

Comments (31)

By [D-Tail]

Ascended (8204)

26-10-2009, 09:52

Wow, very impressive demo! Thanks guys

By Google

By Huey

Prophet (2131)

26-10-2009, 10:07

Looking sweet. I think I saw some C64 influence

Wasn't there a video of this (on accident) before on youtube?

By wolf_

Ambassador (9106)

26-10-2009, 10:07

Yep, in July.

By ibantxuyn

Rookie (23)

26-10-2009, 10:37

WOW!! IMPRESSIVE!!

Congraturaltions for this nice demo!

By wolf_

Ambassador (9106)

26-10-2009, 14:38

Did anything change compared to the one I saw in July?

By dvik

Prophet (2173)

26-10-2009, 15:04

I don't think anything big changed. This one runs on MSX2 as well. Quite interesting actually, it ran just fine on MSX1 but had huge issues with VDP outs being too fast on MSX2. So much for backward compatibility

By only_69

Hero (562)

26-10-2009, 17:25

Daniel,
Just checking your website.
The following link is wrong:
http://www.dvik-joyrex.com/development/basiclist.zip
It should be
http://www.dvik-joyrex.com/download/basiclist.zip

By Whizzy

Master (152)

26-10-2009, 20:52

I can only say... OMFG...

very , very impressive

By gargamel

Expert (79)

26-10-2009, 21:11

Excellent work, stunning composition, a breath taker!

By Sander

Ambassador (1625)

26-10-2009, 22:46

Simply amazing!

By dvik

Prophet (2173)

27-10-2009, 04:06

I made a much better youtube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKqqOcTFVm0

wolf_, can you update the link in this newspost. It would be great if someone that has access to pouet.net could update that link as well. Once both places are updated I'll delete the old version.

By Yukio

Paragon (1514)

27-10-2009, 04:21

Good demo ...

By spl

Paragon (1230)

27-10-2009, 06:22

Outstanding!!!!

By wolf_

Ambassador (9106)

27-10-2009, 09:31

Link changed

You know, everytime I see the Bold logo, the erase-wipe of that logo, and those stars, I feel I've seen them before.

By viejo_archivero

Paragon (1295)

27-10-2009, 11:12

you're my heroes

By dvik

Prophet (2173)

27-10-2009, 15:23

You know, everytime I see the Bold logo, the erase-wipe of that logo, and those stars, I feel I've seen them before.

Hmm, I think the bold logo may have been inspired by the logo of a group that made some quite nice games for MSX, i can't remember the name, but I think its infinite or something

The stars, both the gfx and routine is directly taken from Lotus F3 actually.

By Huey

Prophet (2131)

27-10-2009, 15:30

I love the big bouncing balls. Must take a lot of CPU to calculate them

Alternative Demo Competition

* First place: 2000 € cash + a Nokia N900
* Second place: 700 € cash
* Third placce: 300 € cash

By dvik

Prophet (2173)

27-10-2009, 16:14

I love the big bouncing balls. Must take a lot of CPU to calculate them

Actually it does. They are all calculated in the demo itself. There is a background task that starts just after the roulette wheel is copied to VRAM. So they are actually not pre calculated on a PC or anything, all done on the MSX itself

The demo actually implements a little mini-os, with background tasks that can be scheduled and queued up, and interrupt tasks that can be scheduled.

By wolf_

Ambassador (9106)

27-10-2009, 16:39

I wonder whether a new MSX demo-challenge would be worthwhile in these MSX years. Something like: "64KB ROM, MSX1, 64KB RAM, PSG, 3.58Mhz". I see three dark clouds hanging tho:

dvik&joyrex being the only ones to submit an entry, because making demos like that is not very widespread anymore.
others not submitting an entry because they know dvik&joyrex are probably in for the first place anyhow
people yelling they'd love to compete with an MSX2 entry and some more specs..

By dvik

Prophet (2173)

27-10-2009, 16:57

There are certainly plenty of people capable of doing great MSX demos, question is I guess if they want and have time. I was quite surprised though of the quality of the demo competition at the MSX Info Update party. NYYRIKKI didn't really advertise much about it but there were a couple of really good entries: http://pouet.net/party.php?which=1471&when=2008 so perhaps it could work. Last MRC demo compo was in 2004 or something, right?

By hap

Paragon (1709)

27-10-2009, 16:59

I don't see that happening, 10 years ago maybe. Hold F11 to reverse time.
The most realistic choice is what dvik&joyrex have done: compete in one of the mixed-platform demoparties.

By wolf_

Ambassador (9106)

27-10-2009, 17:04

'Bounce', yea. It was also pre-PopularMSXdevYears, so people were less busy with games 'n things. Apart from groups like dvik&joyrex, Traktor and such, I've not the feeling there's an awful lot happening regarding demos.

At the same time I feel that the traditional scroll 'n logo genre is a thing of the past, and those few demos that do get released on MSX are more and more becoming like newskool, as seen on plenty other systems. That is, imho, a good development.

By Huey

Prophet (2131)

27-10-2009, 18:05

I see three dark clouds hanging tho:

I see one more:
- Dvik and joyrex just won 2000 euros in a multiple platform competition. No use to compete with that with an MSX only competition.

By Yukio

Paragon (1514)

27-10-2009, 19:37

In this case ... congratulations for the nice prize!

By Latok

msx guru (3022)

27-10-2009, 20:34

This demo is even better than a caramel Sundae Ice Cream!!

By Ivan

Scribe (8942)

27-10-2009, 20:44

Thanks for demos like this one!

By poke-1,170

Paragon (1605)

28-10-2009, 02:12

daymn ! job well done guys !
very nice tune as well ^^

By yzi

Expert (99)

29-10-2009, 09:16

This is a great demo! I especially like the flow of things - no more stopping to load the next part, and the parts are tied together. And the music is great too. Since we can't have "track loaders" on MSX (because AFAIK the floppy drive timings are different for each manufacturer/model so disk IO must rely on BIOS), everything must fit in one executable, and so precalcs must be done inside the MSX itself.

I'm sure we'll see more MSX1 demo scene productions in 2010. Hopefully also something from Lieves!Tuore...

By doraemonppc

Master (193)

29-10-2009, 17:16

Awesome production!
Please, keep in this way

By killimolli

Supporter (12)

30-10-2009, 07:52

Awesome!

Now, we need co-op msx1 or msx2 demo by dvik&joyrex+Bore^Traktor and sdw^Noice.

Its my wet dream..."one demo to rule them all"

-killimolli