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Challenges & Competitions / [WIREFRAME] DBFWire

« on: May 22, 2011 »

Hey all,

here is my entry for this great challenge. It was hacked together in a rush.

LAUNCH DBF-WIRE

This production makes extensive use of third party libraries (limited time forced me to do so). In detail it uses:

* Away3D as 3D-Engine
* swfvector for extracting/drawing vector shapes and font glyphs from SWFs
* BloomFilter class by Ben Hopkins (Kode80)
* Tweener as Tweening class

Great tune is by Smirk called "They do" ! (Tune shouldn't be subject of voting though)

Keep this in mind, before you vote ;-)

Anyway, hope you like the result.

Best,
benny!

Small Update
- Added a little gimmik mode. Press left mousebutton to enable/disable it.

Final Update (I promise)
- Added great track called "They do" by Smirk
- Removed left mousebutton mode in favor of some syncing

22

General chat / [SOLVED] Demoscene riddle #6

« on: April 25, 2011 »

Sorry ... this is definately the last one for today ... which demogroup name ?

. .

23

General chat / [SOLVED] Demoscene riddle #5

« on: April 25, 2011 »

Last one for today ... I promise ;-)

937

What demoscene group?

24

General chat / [SOLVED] Demoscene riddle #4

« on: April 25, 2011 »

43.
14.
58.
37

Name of a demoscene group.

25

General chat / [SOLVED] Demoscene riddle #3

« on: April 25, 2011 »

3219

Which group?

26

General chat / [SOLVED] Demoscene ridde #2

« on: April 25, 2011 »

952917022X

Again ... searching for a name of a demogroup

27

General chat / [SOLVED] Demoscene riddle #1

« on: April 25, 2011 »

01000011 01110010 01110101 01110011 01101000 01000100 01101111 01110111 01101110 01001001 01101110 01100110 01100101 01110010 01101001 01101111 01110010 01110011

Searching for a demoscene group name!

28

General chat / Favourite Revision Releases

« on: April 25, 2011 »

Mine is definately:

We Have Accidently Borrowed Your Votedisk by Razor 1911

Why ?

- Real cracktro feeling in modern design
- Awesome oldschool spirit even in a newschool production (which is really rare nowadays  IMHO)
- Runs even on my crappy laptop
- Right sense of humour (referring to name of the production)

What's your fav revision release?

Best,
benny!

29

Other languages / [Flash] FlodEx Example

« on: April 24, 2011 »

Hey all,

here is a little wrapper class for the FlodEx library to play FutureComposer tracks (Could also be used for other sound formats supported by FlodEx).

Code: [Select]

package 
{
import flash.utils.ByteArray;

import neoart.flod.amiga.*;
import neoart.flod.futurecomposer.*;

/**
* FlodEd wrapper
* @author benny!
*/
public class FCMusic
{
// Embed future composer track
[Embed(source="../assets/skidrow1.fc4", mimeType="application/octet-stream")]
private var Song1:Class;

private var _player:FCPlayer;

public function FCMusic()
{
var stream:ByteArray = new Song1() as ByteArray;
_player = new FCPlayer();
_player.stereo = 0;
_player.load( stream );
}

public function play():void
{
_player.play();
}

public function stop():void
{
_player.stop();
}

// Feel free to add pause, restart etc...

}
}

Download FlodEx library at :http://sandbox.photonstorm.com/flod/FlodEx%201.01.rar

Here is a little live example I hacked together to show this in action:

RUN EXAMPLE

30

Other languages / [Flash] Amiga Music Replay

« on: April 10, 2011 »

Hi all,

I spend some time in the last days investigating libraries/sources to replay amiga music wihtin the Flash platform. I want to share my current results with you and of course I would love to hear your experiences, suggestions and feedback.

Here are the libraries/sources I had a look at so far:

FLOD Pro

http://www.photonstorm.com/flod

It supports the .mod Amiga format and works quite well. Using the Beginner's Guide it is really easy to make it work.


FLODEx

http://www.photonstorm.com/archives/720/flodex-1-01-sidmon-future-composer-and-bp-soundmod-supported

This is by the same author of FLOD. It is a replay library for the following synthetic music formats:

- FC (my personal favorite!!!)
- BP Soundmon
- Sidmon1 & Sidmon2
- Delta Music 1
- Delta Music 2 Player
- Digital Mugician Player

All in all, the usage of the lib is as easy as the FLOD Pro version. The sound quality is surprisingly good, too!


FLXMP

http://code.google.com/p/flxmp/

FLXMP stands for Flash Extended Module Player and it is one of the rare projects which offers the replay routine for FastTracker modules (.XM). However it is in a really early stage and a lot of tracker features are not yet implemented.


Conclusion (so far)

It is cool to see that there exists Amiga music replayers for the Flash platform. For the .MOD (4channel) format there seems to be quite stable versions available already. Even the soundquality of FlodEx for some exotic formats is good.

A drawback with all these players is that it consumes CPU power. CPU power you actually need for your games/demo fx. So, it is really hard to say if it is a good idea to have a comparable expensice audio replay when you could use a cheap MP3 replay.

I will keep this post/thread updated.

More known projects:

- 8Bitboy Had a quick look at it. Could not get it to work, but I give it another change soon
- FMP It is written in haXe - so you need to convert it to AS3.0 first in order to use it

31

General chat / Twitter visualization

« on: February 25, 2011 »

lol .. just found this:

http://www.kddi.com/lismo/android/#/run/user/bennyschuetz

(shameless self-promotion ;-) )

32

General chat / Casual Connect HH

« on: February 08, 2011 »

Totally forgot to ask if someone of you here is at the casual connect in HH? If so, drop me a line so we can have some beer together. I was too tired to go to todays party but I think I will go tomorrow.

33

General chat / Programmers day

« on: September 13, 2010 »

Damn, I should not be at work right now:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmers%27_Day

34

General chat / M$ vs Java

« on: September 08, 2010 »

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdwk35_dylin-prestly-microsoft-net-vs-java_tech 

35

Projects / Game portal - onbuga.com

« on: March 28, 2010 »

Hi all,

I just uploaded the first version of my game portal. It is called onbuga.com. onbuga stands for one button games and it is a niche portal that features games that can be played -well - with one button only.

It is by far not finishd. Right now there are only 9 games available for testing purposes and the whole site is quite empty. But I would like to hear some feedback on the current status. So, if you have a minute - I would really like to hear your opionion about it. Is there anything you miss? What could I improve.

Though this site has currently only flash games, I plan to add also games to it of one button games which are available on the iPhone e.g. (just description and download links).

PS:
Since this is not really demoscene related - I do not know if this post is correct in the feedback section. Feel free to move it - if you want. thanks.

36

General chat / First Person Tetris

« on: January 19, 2010 »

Damn, this is a quite cool idea:

First Person Tetris

Please, do me a favour - DO NOT PLAY THIS WHEN YOU ARE DRUNK ...
otherwise place a bucket next to your desk ;-)

Try rotating the bricks with SPACE 

37

General chat / [iPod/iPhone] Must have games

« on: January 19, 2010 »

Hi pals,
I just got an iPod yesterday and I wonder if you could recommend some
must have games for it? So far I downloaded:

- Bejeweled2
- Falling Balls
- Jungle Crash
- BungeeFREE
- Topple

For me - a must have is Bejeweled2 (of course only if you
like those kind of games.

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Useful links / Gordon - An open source Flash™ runtime written in pure JavaScript with SVG

« on: January 14, 2010 »

Woah ... this one is really groovy:

Gordon - An open source Flash™ runtime written in pure JavaScript with SVG

Watch demos

Browse/Get code

With this lib it is now possible to even run flash movies on devices where no
adobe flash player is available (e.g. the iPhone)

39

Useful links / NES emulator in Javascript

« on: January 07, 2010 »

This one is crazy:

http://benfirshman.com/projects/jsnes/

Note: Might crash your browser

40

General chat / Twitter

« on: November 26, 2009 »

Hi,

anyone of you using/interested in Twitter ? I have a little twitter account
in which I tweet about mycomputer related life only (no personal stuff).

Follow me, if you are interested:

http://twitter.com/bennyschuetz