Second Reality for Apple II @deater78

Second Reality for Apple II

deater78 2023-11-04 | Won 1st place oldschool demo at Demosplash 2023

capture on actual Apple IIe

I'm working on a "final" version with improved effects and better sound sync

For disk images and more info see: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/second

Apple II Peasants Quest Update: Progress on the Heights

deater78 2024-10-16 | More progress on the Apple II version of Peasant's Quest. The cliff climb is hooked up, and you can talk to the first keeper. Almost to full dialog completion, but there's still a lot of the game missing (mostly the archery mini-game and a lot of animations)

For more info and disk images see: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/peasant

Extra Real Dating Sim XR for Apple II

deater78 2024-10-01 | based on the game from StrongBad e-mail 81 (date)

This isn't the full game, just all I could fit in 24k of disk space

Fore more info and disk image see: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/sb

Peasants Quest Cliff Climb Minigame for Apple II

deater78 2024-09-19 | Finally got the Cliff Climb minigame going. Here's footage on an actual Apple IIe platinum. For now it's included in the Coach Z game pack, am working on getting it integrated into Peasant's Quest.

To get a disk image see here: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/sb

Peasants Quest II for Apple II teaser

deater78 2024-09-13 | Peasant's Quest II was meant for IBM PC / CGA, but what if you ran it on Apple II instead?

Or maybe I was just too lazy to fire up Turbo Pascal and do it properly

Apple II Peasants Quest Sprite Test

deater78 2024-09-01 | Working on Apple II Peasant's Quest again. The original had prematurely optimized sprite code, so here I am working on having the peasant sprites with full 6 frames of animation, partial transparency, and being on fire, all while against a 6-color background. All very difficult on Apple II, especially as I am targetting a system with 64k of RAM.

Apple II Riven Update 3

deater78 2024-08-19 | Version 0.11 release. You can poke around a lot more of Temple Island now.
Still fits on fourteen 5.25" floppies.
Fore more info see: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/riven/index.html

Apple II Riven Demake Update (Spoilers)

deater78 2024-08-04 | Some more of Riven (1997) demake for Apple II implemented. This is the area around arrival. Currently is 14 floppies; this video was recorded with the Applewin emulator using a hard-disk image so no floppy disk interruptions.

For more info see: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/riven

Apple II Riven (1997) Intro

deater78 2024-07-13 | Decided the Apple II Riven demake needed the full intro sequence

This was a lot of rotocoping.

For more info and disk images see: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/riven

Apple II Riven Disk 40 and beyond

deater78 2024-06-25 | Previously we looked at how much Riven (1997) would fit on a 140k Apple II floppy disk, but it only seemed fitting to see how much would fit on 5 disks.

For more info and disk images see here: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/riven

Riven/Dni Counting, Demoscene Style

deater78 2024-06-19 | I needed some Apple II lo-res routines for printing Riven/D'ni base-5 numbers. Once I got it working, things got a bit out of hand...

disk image can be found here: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/riven/dni_demo.html

Fishing Challenge 91 on Apple II (from sbemail #44)

deater78 2024-06-13 | The flash game "Fishing Challenge '91" from the Strong Bad e-mail "Lures and Jigs", but now on an Apple II

I apologize for the color clash.

More info and disk image can be found here: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/sb

Riven on an Apple II Floppy

deater78 2024-05-29 | How much of the game Riven can fit on one 140k Apple II floppy? Turns out, not very much.

Fore more info and disk image see here: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/riven

Dancing Blobs 256 byte intro for Apple II

deater78 2024-05-11 | Dancing Blobs 256 byte intro for Apple II shown an Outline 2024 demoparty.
This is a hi-res bubble universe effect when I=1

For more info see: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/outline_2024

Cosmic Fish 256 byte Apple II Intro

deater78 2024-05-11 | Cosmic fish, a 256 byte intro for Apple II shown at the Outline 2024 demoparty. This is in lo-res mode, zooming into a "bubble universe" effect.

For more details see: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/outline_2024

Apple II Commander Keen Dev Update

deater78 2024-05-11 | Update on the Apple II Commander Keen demake, showing off title screen, story, and some progress on mars map / levels

Apple II Commander Keen1 Proof of Concept

deater78 2024-04-06 | Testing to see if Commander Keen 1 can run on an Apple II.
Recorded on an actual Apple IIe Platinum
Controls are a pain as Apple II can only send key-down events, making platforming on a keyboard really difficult.

Fore more info/disk image see: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/keen

Apple II Bubble Universe

deater78 2024-02-18 | The "Bubble Universe" effect running on Apple II with I=24 J=24

This is heavily based on the optimized c64 version by serato_fig

More info and disk image here: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/bubble

dSr Wires 256 byte intro for Apple II

deater78 2024-02-13 | 256 byte demo for Apple II shown at Lovebyte 2024. Finished 17/21 in the 256 byte oldschool intro competition.

For more info/disk image see: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/lovebyte_2024/index.html#desire_wires

hhhh - 16 byte intro for Apple II

deater78 2024-02-13 | A 16-byte demo for Apple II shown at Lovebyte 2024. Finished 2/22 in the 16-byte oldschool intro category. This is more XDRAW shapetable drawing. The name is because the initial shape being drawn looks like "hhhh"

For more info/disk image see: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/lovebyte_2024/index.html#hhhh

Sawblade 32 byte Apple II Intro

deater78 2024-02-12 | 32-byte Apple II Intro appearing at Lovebyte 2024. Finished 7/13 in 32 byte oldschool competition. Using shapetables and XDRAW.

Fore more info see here: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/lovebyte_2024/index.html#sawblade

Box Entropy 64 byte Intro for Apple II

deater78 2024-02-12 | 64 byte intro demo for Apple II shown at Lovebyte2024. Finished 9/16 in the oldschool 64 byte intro category. This is a version of D. McKellar's "entropy" 2-line basic program. It's hard to fit a good random number generator in 64 bytes.

For more info and disk image see here: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/lovebyte_2024/index.html#box_entropy

Plasma Mask 1k intro for Apple II

deater78 2024-02-11 | 1k Intro for Apple II shown at Lovebyte 2024. Finished 2/7 in the 1k oldschool intro competition. The long pre-calculation at the beginning is genearting a 768 byte sine table using the Applesoft BASIC floating point routines. The core plasma code is based on the Plasmagoria code by French Touch / grouik. Music by MA2E.

For more info/disk image see: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/lovebyte_2024/index.html#plasma-mask

Dont Tell Valve 1k Apple II intro

deater78 2024-02-11 | 1k Apple II demo shown at Lovebyte 2024. Finished 6/7 of the oldschool 1k intro competition. A brief scene from your favorite cake acquisition simulator. Meant this to be a 512 byte intro but it got out of hand.

For more info/disk image see: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/lovebyte_2024/index.html#dont

Rainbow Squares 128 byte Intro for Apple II

deater78 2024-02-10 | 128 Byte Intro demo for Apple II, shown at Lovebyte 2024. Finished 10/19 in the 128 byte oldschool category. This is two frames from the middle of a (slow) sierpinski rotozoom. It looks surprisingly colorful considering this is Apple II hi-res which only has 6 colors.

Fore more info/disk image see: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/lovebyte_2024/index.html#rainbow_squares

Sprialing Shape 32 byte intro for Apple II

deater78 2024-02-10 | 32 byte AppleII intro demo for Lovebyte 2024. Finished 1st out of 13 entries in the oldschool 32 byte intro category. Some shapetable rotating lines and some (unexpectedly popular) audio.

For more info/disk image see: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/lovebyte_2024/index.html#spiraling_shape

Trogdor for Apple II

deater78 2024-01-30 | The Trogdor video from Strongbad E-mail #58, but on your Apple II computer.

More info and disk image available here: http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/trogdor

Apple II 6-channel pt3 Mockingboard Music

deater78 2024-01-19 | Most old systems with AY sound cards only have 3-channels, but the Mockingboard for Apple II has dual chips for 6 channels. Vortextracker supports this, and I had a request to see if I could modify my pt3 player to handle it. So here's a proof of concept playing Dya's "Dance of the Dead".
Note this is on an emulator, it probably won't sound as good on real hardware as there's a low-pass filter that tends to remove a lot of the bass.

More info can be found on this page: http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/pt3_lib

Apple II Bubble Universe Attempt

deater78 2024-01-03 | yuruyrau posted a neat algorithm for drawing a "bubble universe" effect, and for once it looked like it might be possible on a 1MHz 6502 Apple II

Spent a *lot* of time optimizing 8.8 fixed point math, making lookup tables, self-modifying code, inlining functions, and unrolling loops. Eventually got a semi-decent framerate with 24 nodes. Doesn't look anywhere near ascool as it does on a faster machine

2023 Apple II Christmas Demo

deater78 2023-12-24 | 2023 edition of my annual Christmas Demo tradition. Recorded on real Apple IIe with Mockingboard card.

by Desire, code by Deater, Music by mA2E

There's some vapor-lock / vblank detection/ non-typical mid-screen mode switches happening here.

for more info/disk image see: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/xmas23

Twister Effect in Applesoft Basic (280 chars)

deater78 2023-12-08 | This is the type of thing I used to post on the (sadly defunct) Apple II Basic twitter bot.
I took a nice Applesoft BASIC twister effect by Marc Golombeck, made it lo-res, and size-optimized the code to fit in 280 characters (238 bytes on disk). I also tried to speed it up, or at least as much as I could on a 1MHz 6502 running the slowest BASIC Microsoft could be bothered to write. It looks much better if you ramp up your accelerator card (or emulator)

Apple II dots effect attempt #1

deater78 2023-11-27 | Working on getting a full version of the "Second Reality" dots effect going for Apple II. The original FC code has 4 multiplies and two divides per dot which is a bit much for 6502. Here I'm playing back recorded dots instead. This is 128 dots at 7fps which really isn't enough, ideally 256 dots at 25fps is reasonable but that won't fit in RAM.

Apple II Plasmacube Proof of Concept

deater78 2023-10-31 | ...

apple II fake voxel proof of concept

deater78 2023-10-18 | it's actually just zx02 compressed rotoscoped frames. each frame around 1k. maxing out the 24k ram budget

apple ii animation proof of concept

deater78 2023-10-04 | 4fps, 17k

for those curious, it's pre-rendered (as opposed to doing 3d modeling on the fly)

each frame is a series of rectangles. Originally I was rotoscoping by hand but that was tedious, so I wrote a program that tries to find optimal rectangle coverage (it works ok but results in files 10-20% bigger than when I do them by hand)

this example is 4 frames per second. It can actually do better than that but then of course I'd have to draw more frames

Apple II Hi-res Plasma Proof of Concept

deater78 2023-09-10 | This is based on the lo-res Plasmagoria code by French Touch

Horrible frame rate, it's really hard to do full screen updates in hi-res on the Apple II with any degree of speed

Apple II Plasmagoria Scene in 316 bytes

deater78 2023-09-08 | An attempt to size-code a scene from French Touch's Apple II Plasmagoria demo.
Got it down to 316 bytes. Calling into Applesoft FAC floating point routines to generate the tables which is why it has 45 seconds of pre-calc.

Apple II pretending its a DOS machine

deater78 2023-08-27 | this was more trouble than it was worth.

For disk image see here: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/second/fake_bios.html
For the lemmings game see here: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/lemm

a few scenes from second reality on Apple II [obsolete]

deater78 2023-08-15 | Note: since making this video I actually made a full version of Apple II second reality which you can see here: youtube.com/watch?v=RNOqu4vcDto

I'm usually not a fan of 2nd reality remakes, but then I found an AY-3-8910 version of the soundtrack and well, one thing led to another...

really it's just a few scenes and part of a rotozoomer

for more details see here: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/second

Atari 2600 Myst Demake Longplay

deater78 2023-08-07 | A playthough of the Atari 2600 Myst Demake on actual hardware.

This all fits on a 16k cartridge, you can walk around Myst island, get all 4 endings, complete two puzzles, and do the full speedrun route.

For more info see: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/myst_vcs

Atari 2600 Myst Speedrun 2:46

deater78 2023-08-07 | Speedrun of the Atari 2600/VCS Myst demake recorded on real hardware.

This is just proof of concept, I made many mistakes and hesitated a lot.

Fore more info on the demake see here: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/myst_vcs

Atari 2600 Myst red/blue pages implemented

deater78 2023-07-31 | The unofficial Atari 2600 Myst demake now supports picking up red/blue pages and getting the relevant bad endings.

For more info see: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/myst_vcs

atari 2600 myst clock puzzle implemented

deater78 2023-07-24 | you can now get the hint and then do the puzzle to get to the marker switch on the clock

for more info see: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/myst_vcs

Atari 2600 Myst Fireplace Implemented (spoilers)

deater78 2023-07-15 | Finally got the Fireplace puzzle implemented. It was a challenge getting this down to a reasonable size with various problems along the way. Running low on space on the ROM image.

For more details see: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/myst_vcs

Atari 2600 Myst update: you can win

deater78 2023-06-29 | More progress on the Atari 2600/VCS Myst demake

Lots more locations, and you can "win" the game, although the fireplace puzzle isn't really hooked up yet.

More more info and ROM image see: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/myst_vcs

StrongbadZone on Apple II

deater78 2023-06-11 | A port of the Videlectrix game "Strongbadzone" to the Apple II.
Captured on an actual Apple IIe platinum

sorry the sound is slightly out of sync, I don't have OBS 100% configured right

For more details, disk image, etc, see: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/sb

Duck Pound for Apple II outtake

deater78 2023-06-06 | Was implementing the homestar runner / sbemail Duckpond game in Apple II lores and it was a bit... buggy.

Apple IIe 256byte midline mode-switch Demo

deater78 2023-05-20 | 256 byte Apple IIe demo. Released at outline 2023 demoparty. Doing cycle-counting and mid-line mode-switching

recorded on actual Apple II Platinum

for more info see: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/outline_2023

Double Double Apple II Modeswitch Demo

deater78 2023-05-15 | Demo showing off racing-the-beam style mode switching for the "double" (80-column) graphics modes available on Apple IIe and newer.

For mode details see: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/mode_switch

Apple II animation from SBEMAIL #152

deater78 2023-05-03 | Testing out some hi-res graphics routines on the Apple II. This is an animation based on one from the Homestar Runner Strong Bad E-mail #152 "ISP"

Fits in 8k. The sound is "electric duet" out the regular speaker, though in the end that didn't turn out so great

link to disk image here: http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/sb/fn.html