A Bright Shining Star (GP Demo) | Classic retro game for the Commodore PET Computer (2022)

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2022

Self Published

Alessio Cosenza

Demo

English

2001 (Some programs will work on multiple machines)

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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