ST NEWS Magazine

A few months ago, Richard Karsmakers, the man behind the legendary ST NEWS Disk Magazine, contacted me asking me to help out with remaking some of the demoscreens and scrolling messages from the original volumes. I was only too happy to help out. 

Richard has been further helped out by DYNO who has also made several screens for this great project.

Please see below the various screens, and suite of scrollers I have made! :-)

ST NEWS Volume 4.3 MONOCHROME Screen

http://codef.namwollem.co.uk/TEST/STNEWS/STNEWS_4_3_MONO.html

http://codef.namwollem.co.uk/TEST/STNEWS/STNEWS_4_3_MONO_CRT.html
(The above link also has a WEBGL shader effect of an Atari SM124 Mono Monitor overlay!)

ST NEWS Various Scrolltext / Music Screens
There are about 10 or 12 of these, an example of one is below...

http://codef.namwollem.co.uk/TEST/STNEWS/STNEWS_Volume3_Issue3.html

http://st-news.com/issues/st-news-volume-3-issue-1/
(Select EXTRAS, and then SCROLLING MESSAGE)

ST NEWS Volume 4.1

http://codef.namwollem.co.uk/TEST/STNEWS/STNEWS_4_1.html

ST NEWS Volume 3.7

http://codef.namwollem.co.uk/TEST/STNEWS/STNEWS_3_7.html

ST NEWS Volume 4.4 Digi-Routine

http://codef.namwollem.co.uk/TEST/STNEWS/STNEWS_4_4_digirout.html

ST NEWS Volume 4.2

http://codef.namwollem.co.uk/TEST/STNEWS/STNEWS_4_2.html

Pandora cracktro by Dexion from the C64

Yesterday I saw this cool C64 intro, with some great SID music - and it was so good in fact, I thought I'd better do a CODEF version of it, so I did!

Some nice fluid swinging moves, especially on the rasters within the main logo, and nice raster effects on the text, plus a kick-ass tune to boot! Enjoy!

http://codef.namwollem.co.uk/dexion_pandora.html

Ghosts N' Goblins Amiga cracktro by Defjam

Needed a quick CODEF fix yesterday, so found a nice little cracktro by DEFJAM for Ghosts N' Goblins, it had a cool tune, and a nice text effect/font and colour table... so here it is!

http://codef.namwollem.co.uk/defjamGG.html

As always, Enjoy! :-)

Wild Guns SNES cracktro by TRSI remake

I wanted to do another quick remake, and perhaps choose something a little different.... so I found this quick cracktro by TRSI from the SNES for Wild Guns! Seeing as I havn't done a SNES remake yet, it seemed a good choice - nothing too challenging, just some nice music and colours on the logo! As always, enjoy!

http://codef.namwollem.co.uk/wildguns.html

Spiderman Dreamcast cracktro by Echelon

Back to the Sega Dreamcast for my next remake fix! :-)

This screen has been kicking around for a few months, mainly because I couldn't get the scrolltext effect to work correctly...

In the end, I binned the idea I had using a "pre-made script", and after speaking with Antoine "NoNameNo" Santo (AKA The CODEF Master), wrote a bespoke routine to process the scrolltext, which gave me the effect I wanted.

.XM replay came courtesy of Jurgen Wothke, and graphics ripped from a ROM dump of the original crack!

Enjoy this cool cracktro!

http://codef.namwollem.co.uk/echelon_spiderman.html

Atari ST Pompey Packer Decrunch .JS lib for CODEF

Good afternoon! I had a flash of inspiration this afternoon, so spent about 45 minutes making this little gem of an item for you ST fans out there (excuse the crap joke there)!!

This is a CODEF add-in library which allows you to call a Pompey Packer v1.9 decrunch effect!

EDIT: I have added a new parameter, so you can choose a white on black screen, or a black on white (as per the picture above).

myPPDecrunch = new PPDecrunch(150,500,1);

The 150 as above is the delay before the decrunch starts
The 500 as above is how long the decrunch lasts for
The 1 is for a WHITE on black decrunch - change to a 0 for BLACK on white decrunch.

A simple little test to show you how to use it is below... Enjoy!

http://codef.namwollem.co.uk/PompeyPackerTEST.html

Laxity intro for Honey Bee +6 from the C64! (Released today!)

I saw this cool intro on Facebook this morning, and it had only been released that day - it was so good - I did a CODEF version THE SAME DAY!! :-)

Cool music, and nice clean look! Enjoy!

http://codef.namwollem.co.uk/laxity.html

Bros Intro from the Commodore 64

Over the weekend I saw this great intro on the C64 that I hadn't seen before - with a nice bunch of FLD movements!

I thought it was deserving of a CODEF remake, so I set to work.... and here it is.

The intro code has been used for a number of cracks, so it's quite possible you may have seen this in one form or another.

Hope you enjoy this CODEF remake in HTML5 :-)

http://codef.namwollem.co.uk/bros_intro.html

Batman3 Cracktro from Amstrad CPC464 by TB Crackers

Now that we have an Amstrad CPC464 music player for its' .AY tunes for HTML5/CODEF, it seemed only appropriate to do a CODEF remake of a CPC cracktro!

One of the guys on the Facebook CODEF Group suggested TB Crackers, so I thought "why not?"....

Then I found this cracktro for BATMAN3, which had been already made for canvas by 'cYB0rG / XTR'. 

I "borrowed" a large chunk of his code, resized it, reworking it for CODEF, and then added in the SpectreZX code by Jurgen Wothke, to give authentic playback (the original used an .mp3) - some optimisation, and a few other tweaks, and this screen came together!

Enjoy the first Amstrad cracktro in CODEF (as far as I am aware!)....

http://codef.namwollem.co.uk/tb_crackers_batman3.html

P.S. Due to an issue with Firefox not supporting the sound correctly, I have added a detector event which will load an MP3 for FF users, so they can hear the music correctly!

P.P.S. I have just added iOS sound support for this as well - seeing as I'm using an MP3 for the reasons above!

Amstrad CPC 464 Music Playback with CODEF!

Once again, by using the various Jurgen Wothke webaudio players, and some playing around with his code, here is a simple script showing the playback of Amstrad CPC 464 music files using CODEF and HTML5!

This is because his code for SpectreZX also supports the whole chipset family, which includes other Yamaha AY chips.... such as the one used in the Amstrad!

Here is a simple screen, using SPACE to select songs..... be warned, the main script file is VERY large, so there will be a delay before audio playback starts. Enjoy!

http://codef.namwollem.co.uk/amstrad.html