Posted By
Luca
on 2025-01-02
10:59:43
 |  Re: Dune Arcade Intro
@Phoenix ok so we keep an eye on the eventual evolution of Phoenix Design as a new group, keep up the great work!
About the SIDcard centered discussion... Well, I think that most of the people knows my position about that:
1) I prefer TEDsound as main standard, I see the Scene mainly as an artistic production, more than a commercial or strictly functional one, though the latter covers an important side into the former and if it's the case, it shouldn't be annihilated by that main root; it's 2025, and UNESCO has already recognised the Demoscene as "an expression of Intangible Cultural Heritage". In the sub-field of Retroscene, the real push for it, is to maximize the artistic/ludic/(anything else) aspect of a release, optimising at best the tech side into an artistic environment (music, graphics etc...) with the very limited resources available on that certain hardware: the product's art is half the art, the optimisation on that machine is the other half of the art.
2) Once said this, I absolutely don't dislike the usage of SIDcard, which has become along the years a real standard into our little Scene, and the difference in the clock of the chip can be included in the very little flaws around it with no particular form of pain.
3) The usage of the Plus/4 releases has been certainly changed by the fantastic development of both faithful emulators and tools to achieve the best from these machines; still, referring again to the definition of how this form of art (hobby? job? whatever?) has been always defined, the core of the total "this" remains the original machine, date 1984, with all its flaws and advantages. Every prod MUST work on the original hardware to be included into this path, because this is not a PICO-8 or another fantasy machine. Clearly, you can experiment all the fancy hardware to enhance the standard machine, and we love to see them all (Evo Lution, BA - The Stream, MicroMorph0s1s...), but in the environment of a Scene, the main target should remain ooooook I've written too much you're right and you already understood sorry  |
