[MSX] No Pressure (2012) by Flying Bytes (turboR + Moonsound)

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Channel: FiXato · 2013 · Science & Technology

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No Pressure - Flying Bytes
This demo was first released as an entry to the #msxdev Compo 2012.
Download it from http://msxbanzai.tni.nl/compo/2012/entries.html
Read about it at http://www.msx.org/news/en/msxdev-compo-2012-3-no-pressure
It runs on any MSX2 with 64kb RAM and 128kb VRAM. It supports MSX-AUDIO
music. On MSX turboR the demo has some extra features such as stereo
music (MSX-AUDIO/MSX-MUSIC) and several wave effects.
When you want to run the demo from FDD please press [CTRL] at startup.
At some points in the demo, pressing [ESC] will skip the current part.
Credits:
Code: Snout/Latok
Gfx: Sakamoto-san/Jorito
Music: Jorito
++-- MSX FOR FUN AND CREATIVITY --++

The text from the demo:
 FLYING BYTES PROUDLY PRESENTS 
 NO PRESSURE 
 AN ENTRY TO THE FIRST EDITION OF THE 
 ERR LATOK 
 YES SNOUT 
 ERR WHERE IS THE HASH CHARACTER 
 WELL SNOUT WE DO NOT HAVE ONE 
 ARF WELL OKAY 
 AN ENTRY TO THE FIRST EDITION OF THE HASH MSXDEV COMPETITION 
 SO DO YOU GUYS LIKE THIS ABSOLUTELY SMOOTH SCROLLER 
 IT IS OUR VERY FIRST ASSEMBLY PROJECT EVER AND WE THINK IT IS THE BEST THING FLYING BYTES RELEASED IN THE PAST FIFTEEN YEARS 
 IT IS ALSO THE ONLY THING WE RELEASED IN FIFTEEN YEARS 
 WAIT I THINK WE EVEN CAN DO A LITTLE BIT BETTER THAN THIS HANG ON 
 BAM!!!! 
 THAT IS A WHOLE LOT BETTER, ISN'T IT?.... 
 ALTHOUGH.... 
 WE COULD REALLY USE A LOGO!!! 
 AHHHH THAT IS MUCH, MUCH BETTER... 
 SO THERE WE ARE, THE FIRST FLYING BYTES DEMO IN MORE THAN 15 YEARS... 
 ... DID YOU MISS US AS MUCH AS WE MISSED YOU? 
 .... 
 NOT REALLY, EH?.... 
 SAY LATOK, I THINK THIS DEMO IS STILL A LITTLE BORING. 
 WHAT WAS IT CALLED AGAIN? 
 AH YES, NO PRESSURE... 
 IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, THIS IS OUR VERY FIRST ASSEMBLY PROJECT FOR THE MSX... 
 A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO WE STARTED EXPLORING THE Z80 AND THE VDP... 
 ONE THING WAS CERTAIN: WE WANTED TO CREATE SOMETHING BUT WE DID NOT WANT TO RAISE THE BAR TOO HIGH, 
 SO WE DECIDED THAT NO MATTER HOW GOOD OR BAD WE CODED, NO MATTER HOW LONG IT TOOK AND HOW BIG OUR IDEAS BECAME... 
 THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WAS FUN, NOT STRESS.... 
 HENCE THE NAME NO PRESSURE 
 ALRIGHT SNOUT, ENOUGH... 
 BOUNCE TIME!!!! 
 EXACTLY! 
 FLYING BYTES IS GOING TO ROCK THE WORLD ONCE MORE!!!!!! 
 THIS DEMO RUNS ON ANY MSX2 WITH 64KB RAM AND 128KB VRAM... 
 USE AN MSX-AUDIO AND YOUR EARS WILL GET BLOWN AWAY BY A DAMN GOOD JORITO TUNE... 
 ON TURBO R YOU CAN ENJOY THIS DEMO IN EARDRUM POPPING STEREO AND SOME PARTS OF THIS DEMO LOOK BETTER ON THIS MACHINE 
 TIME FOR SOME CREDITS, THEN... 
 CODE: LATOK AND SNOUT 
 MUSIC: JORITO 
 GRAPHICS: SAKAMOTO-SAN AND JORITO 
 ... 
 THIS DEMO IS DEDICATED TO ALL OF YOU WHO LOVE SCROLL AND LOGO DEMOS (YES SAMOR, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT YOU!)... 
 AND GUYS WE CAN TELL YOU: CREATING SUCH A DEMO IS AN ABSOLUTE JOY 
 OF COURSE WE KNOW THE MSX2 CAN DO SO MUCH MORE THAN THIS, BUT HONESTLY... 
 WE COULD NOT CARE LESS 
 THAT'S NOT WHAT MSX IS ABOUT 
 MSX IS ABOUT CREATIVITY AND FUN RETRO IS ABOUT CREATIVITY AND FUN SO WHY AIM FOR TECHNICAL PERFECTION? 
 IT WILL ONLY GET YOU STUCK IN A PURISTIC AND ELITIST PARADOX 
 SO ANYWAY, ARE YOU READY FOR OUR FULL SCREEN IMAGE ROTATION IN SCREEN 5 WITH REALTIME CALCULATED VECTORGRAPHICS AND SPECTRUM ANALYZER? 
 NO? 
 WELL, NEITHER ARE WE... 
 SNOUT, SHALL WE CONTINUE WITH SOMETHING WE CAN ACTUALLY CODE? 
 YOU'RE RIGHT LATOK, WHY DON'T WE WAVE TO OUR FANS THEN? 
 HMMM.... OK.... 
 WWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!! 
 LOOK AT THIS BOUNCY BOUNCY SCROLL, IT IS REALLY FAST AND SMOOTH..... 
 WHAT BETTER PLACE TO LET OUR GREETINGS FLY OUT TO THE MSX COMMUNITY? 
 ARE YOU READY? 
 HERE THEY COME! 
 TNI THANK YOU FOR ORGANISING THE #MSXDEV COMPO 
 WELL WHAT DO YOU KNOW 
 WE DO HAVE A ##### CHARACTER AFTER ALL! 
 FURTHER GREETS GO TO THE OTHER CONTESTANTS TO THIS CHALLENGE, BEING 
 GAMECAST ENTERTAINMENT 
 INFINITE 
 SYN 
 AETHERBYTE 
 AND DARKSTONE 
 
 ARE YOU STILL WITH US? 
 GOOD, BECAUSE HERE COME MORE GREETS! 
 RETROWORKS 
 NYRRIKKI 
 XLS ENTERTAINMENT 
 TRILOBYTE 
 MSX POSSE 
 KAROSHI 
 AAMSX 
 XELASOFT 
 BANDWAGON 
 LIEVES!TUORE 
 BITWISE 
 MATRA 
 KRALIZEC 
 NEAR DARK 
 DVIK 
 JOYREX 
 WORP3 
 SUPERSONIQS 
 SUNRISE 
 THE C-MEN 
 TEAM OPENMSX 
 WAMMES 
 MARTOS 
 THE MSX RESOURCE CENTER CREW 
 COMMODOREJOHN 
 Z80ST SOFTWARE 
 CRISIS 
 ALMA 
 NERLASKA 
 303BCN 
 AND OF COURSE........
 YOU!!!! 
 ALLRIGHT THEN, IT IS TIME TO SAY GOODBYE 
 IF YOU THINK THIS DEMO ROCKS (OR SUCKS) WE CHALLENGE YOU TO RELEASE A COUNTER-DEMO 
 LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL AGAIN, LADS! 
 WE MIGHT HAVE OVERHEATED THE VDP A LITTLE, SO WE WILL TRY AND WAVE GOODBYE... 
 AND LATOK SENDS THIS ONE TO HIS MUM. 
 HERE´S TO THE FUTURE!
This video was recorded using openMSX 0.9.1 for Windows 64-bit, development release 13116 as published on openMSX Daily Builds: http://openmsx.fixato.net

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