The well known Bad Apple demo on the Acorn Electron

0xC0DE · Post by **0xC0DE** » Fri Dec 13, 2019 10:29 pm

This has been my project for a while now. I proudly present version 0.1 of my Bad Apple demo for the Acorn Electron. With a proper intro and outro. And some proper music by Simon M (original BBC tune by Inverse Phase).

Watch it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdW0XDB928E

Post by **danielj** » Fri Dec 13, 2019 10:34 pm

!!!!!

davidb · Post by **davidb** » Fri Dec 13, 2019 11:02 pm

Very impressive!

kieranhj · Post by **kieranhj** » Sat Dec 14, 2019 12:21 am

Amazing work! Love the high-res scanline look.

daveejhitchins · Post by **daveejhitchins** » Sat Dec 14, 2019 5:21 am

Dave H

Post by **roland** » Sat Dec 14, 2019 7:46 am

Beautiful

Lardo Boffin · Post by **Lardo Boffin** » Sat Dec 14, 2019 10:56 am

Blimey. That is impressive!

oss003 · Post by **oss003** » Sat Dec 14, 2019 11:01 am

Nice job .... looks really good ..

Greetings
Kees

0xC0DE · Post by **0xC0DE** » Sat Dec 14, 2019 4:32 pm

Thank you all for the kind words, much appreciated!

jms2 · Post by **jms2** » Sat Dec 14, 2019 7:35 pm

That looks incredible!

Presumably it streams from disc .. but does it need a fast MMC disc?

0xC0DE · Post by **0xC0DE** » Sat Dec 14, 2019 7:46 pm

Thank you! Yes, it streams from floppy disk. Two double sided disks to be exact. Which translates to 4 single sided disks on MMFS (SD-card). I can't test on real floppy disks at the moment. And it seems MMFS is actually slightly slower than DFS. I am using the ElkSD64 by Ramtop.

jms2 · Post by **jms2** » Sat Dec 14, 2019 7:47 pm

Something tells me that a Gotek might not be fast enough. That said, I think Bad Apple works on the Master using my Gotek.

0xC0DE · Post by **0xC0DE** » Sat Dec 14, 2019 7:50 pm

4 to 5 KB/s should be fast enough. And this is the (max) speed I measure on DFS and MMFS. I don't know anything about Gotek. I would like to test on some more configurations and also experiment with (more) data compression to maybe get it all down to one double sided floppy disk.

Post by **Arcadian** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 12:20 am

My goodness, who'd have thought that the Elk could run Bad Apple - splendid work, sir!

dominicbeesley · Post by **dominicbeesley** » Wed Dec 18, 2019 10:20 am

Bravo!

julie_m · Post by **julie_m** » Wed Dec 18, 2019 5:44 pm

Colour me seriously impressed. I've seen less done with more capable hardware and still thought that was good, but this is mind-blowing!

MartinB · Post by **MartinB** » Wed Dec 18, 2019 7:17 pm

Every shade of awesome....

Multiwizard · Post by **Multiwizard** » Wed Dec 18, 2019 8:14 pm

Greetings, Wim...

0xC0DE · Post by **0xC0DE** » Thu Dec 19, 2019 10:07 am

Thank you everyone!

Post by **danielj** » Thu Dec 19, 2019 10:14 am

If it'd fit into 640kb then a single ADFS disc should suffice? Should run off the gotek with a higher data rate than FM too...

d.

wrdiffin · Post by **wrdiffin** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 11:13 am

Without any actual Electron disk images, this could simply have been done on a PC.

0xC0DE · Post by **0xC0DE** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 11:54 am

wrdiffin wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 08, 2021 11:13 am
Without any actual Electron disk images, this could simply have been done on a PC.

You're right. It could have been.

By the way, did you just join stardot to post this?

VectorEyes · Post by **VectorEyes** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 12:00 pm

There are always people who’ll look at retro demo videos on YouTube and post comments questioning whether it was really done on original / unexpanded hardware. (Sigh)...

0xC0DE · Post by **0xC0DE** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 12:08 pm

VectorEyes wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 08, 2021 12:00 pm
There are always people who’ll look at retro demo videos on YouTube and post comments questioning whether it was really done on original / unexpanded hardware. (Sigh)...

Which could arguably be seen as the greatest compliment possible

fuzzel · Post by **fuzzel** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 5:04 pm

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