How do you make a demo?

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Re: How do you make a demo?

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I believe most demos involve some advanced character redefining, because I think the pictures in demos often look kinda blocky, Nothing
wrong with that, though!

Also, setup is unmodified except assembler is DASM.
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Re: How do you make a demo?

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JRBasic wrote:I believe most demos involve some advanced character redefining, because I think the pictures in demos often look kinda blocky, [...]
Well, there's your opportunity to improve upon that! ... :mrgreen:
Also, setup is unmodified except assembler is DASM.
DASM isn't the only (cross-)assembler around. And it would need either source (or remnants of source in the object code with a 'hosted' environment) to identify the used tool. The whole demo could also have been hacked in with a monitor like MINIMON.
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Re: How do you make a demo?

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Is there anything to be done in a demo that hasn't been done?
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Re: How do you make a demo?

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RJBowman wrote:Is there anything to be done in a demo that hasn't been done?
Those people making demos thankfully don't give anything about such rhetorical questions.
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Re: How do you make a demo?

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I got an error on tutorial 4 when building
Error during parsing:
Fatal error on line: 43
Source: @include "music/mystic_runner.ras"

Message: After declarations, BEGIN is expected
edit: Could anyone please break the silence with an answer? :(
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