A Bright Shining Star (GP Demo)
Publisher: Self PublishedGenre: Demo
Programmer: Alessio Cosenza
Year: 2022
Language: English
Downloads: 48
Website: Demo page
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The keyboard graphic responds to mouse clicks, touch events, and key presses.
Hold your shift key while clicking the PET keyboard to get the graphics
characters.
(The emulator simulates pressing the PET's left shift-key at the
same time as the clicked key.)
Changing the size of memory or changing the ROM version forces a reset of the PET.
The emulator has an IEEE-488 device at address 8. It can be used load and save (.prg) files.
Some programs don't run on ROM1 and some require more memory than the default 8K.
Game Notes
May include inaccurate AI generated content
A BRIGHT SHING STAR is a demo programmed and illustrated by Elder001. With this demo he introduced PECBM video mode: with PECBM you can get rid of several petscii limitation, enabling some real pixel art capabilities on this 45 years old beautiful machine.
Luckily enough I ended up to be the first man on earth to ever do some real pixel art on a Commodore PET 2001: I tried to exploit some limitations this new technique has. PECBM can’t draw the whole screen in hi res / per pixel mode, you are limited to the equivalent of a handful of characters. Mixing some petsciii and PECBM together I managed to render full screen images. I drew some petscii images, then I hand picked the characters I wanted to replace with pixel art and created a collapsed map containing only those special characters, like you would do in a spritesheet. I then wrote a document with an array of the correct offset values so that Elder001 could actually extend back the graphics in the right place as they were inten
Luckily enough I ended up to be the first man on earth to ever do some real pixel art on a Commodore PET 2001: I tried to exploit some limitations this new technique has. PECBM can’t draw the whole screen in hi res / per pixel mode, you are limited to the equivalent of a handful of characters. Mixing some petsciii and PECBM together I managed to render full screen images. I drew some petscii images, then I hand picked the characters I wanted to replace with pixel art and created a collapsed map containing only those special characters, like you would do in a spritesheet. I then wrote a document with an array of the correct offset values so that Elder001 could actually extend back the graphics in the right place as they were inten
