JAPAN beauties and troubles v1.09 "for your eyes only version", final version is coming soon.
Released for Sommarhack 2012
A full hicolor demo with more than 200 colors on every screen

v1.0 was disqualified at Revision 2012 party because no real Atari ST 4MB was found at party place to prove it could run not only on emulators but on a real hardware also.
JAPAN beaties and troubles is back like a phoenix with this enhanced version for Sommarhack !

Credits :
- Gfx : PandaFox / After The Battle, Nytrik / Cocoon, Kenet / Brainstorm, Rebeca Puebla
- Music : DMA-SC / Sector One
- Code : Cyg / BlaBLa (fcatteau@gmail.com)

Many thanks to every authors of the very beautiful and inspired Haiku (Japanese poem) displayed during the demo, run again the demo if you missed some!

Pre-requisities:
Atari ST or STE or MEGA ST (8Mhz) with 4MB of memory or an emulator like STeem or Hatari
The packed version : JAPAN.PRG (720 KB)
The unpacked version JAPANunp.PRG (1331 KB) in case the packed version has a problem

Tested on a real hardware (DMA-SC), STeem 4.32, Hatari with TOS 1.02, 1.62 and 2.06 UK

June 2012


Some technical facts :

Japan logo : 500 colors
Nytrik & Pandafox logo : 550 colors
Girl with a fan - 2d deformation + texture fade + watermark effect : 550 colors / 1 vbl - 50 fps
Earthquake on Hiroshima by night - crossfade + tv effect : 680 colors / 1 vbl - 50 fps
Tsunami wave - 2d deformation + texture fade + watermark effect : 200 colors / 1 vbl - 50 fps
Fukushima tsunami & nuclear accident - crossfade : 700 colors / 1 vbl - 50 fps
Atomik explosion - blur zoom-fade : 450 colors / 1 vbl - 50 fps
Cyg logo - glow effect : 320 colors / 1 vbl - 50 fps
Lotus flower - phong effect : 340 colors / 2 vbl - 25 fps
Buddah - radial transformation + reflexion mapping : 700 colors / 1 vbl - 50 fps
Kenet & DMA-SC logo : 500 colors
Gold dragon - bump effect + texture fade : 300 colors / 1 vbl - 50 fps
Temple - particule effect : 850 colors / 1 vbl - 50 fps
Tentacle monster - phong effect : 600 colors / 2 vbl - 25 fps
The end girl - blur effect : 700 colors / 1 vbl - 50 fps