Things I couldn’t find elsewhere

Overscan and sync scrolling

Atari English Retro Uncategorized

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This last weekend me and many others were participating at the third incarnation of the STNICCC Atari ST conference. The first and original one was held in 1990 - where sadly I didn’t attend - and the second one was held as a reunion in the year 2000. Back then they joked about meeting up again in the far far away future of 2015.

… and that happened. Me and two others from my old demo crew had written a brand new demo that we showed at the demo competition, and additionally I had been asked by the organizer to do a talk on the latest findings with regards to two of the Atari ST’s more magical demo tricks - overscan and sync scroll.

The talk was recorded, and I’ve uploaded a version where I’ve tried to clean up the audio to Youtube. My slides (even the final version which I was unable to use during the presentation) can be found in the video description. Enjoy.

update 2015-12-31: I mention in the talk that I will release source code showing how you can detect the wakestates yourself. Now done. Pre-built binaries here and code on Github. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4WJYyoF1Lk