Comments on: Gallions Reach

By: Fake Plastic Cubes « matt.west.co.tt

Fake Plastic Cubes « matt.west.co.tt — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:41:34 +0000

[...] code is safe from this cherry-picking exercise of doom – the 3D routines are a mishmash of Gallions Reach / Canvastastic (for the lighting model) and Antisocial (for the full scene / movable camera handling). Finally, [...]

By: matt.west.co.tt » Blog Archive » Leaving summertime behind

matt.west.co.tt » Blog Archive » Leaving summertime behind — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:52:09 +0000

[...] The plan was to create something approaching a lo-fi YouTube-stylee home movie of scenes from a summer day – but with all visuals generated in real time, of course, as per the usual demoscene custom – drawing on the already-lo-fi graphics of the Spectrum, some crafty image processing, and some fine photos taken by Natalie (whose Flickr stream I previously plundered for Gallions Reach). And now, in a post-modern self-referential ironic twist (or something), you can watch it as a YouTube video. [...]

By: matt.west.co.tt » Blog Archive » Canvastastic

matt.west.co.tt » Blog Archive » Canvastastic — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 23:55:22 +0000

[...] At this weekend’s BarCamp London, I announced a new Javascript library which takes the 3D engine from my Gallions Reach demo and promises to place it in the hands of industrious web developers, hackers and masher-uppers everywhere. The presentation seemed to go down well, so it’s only right that I should get this first release out, as promised. Strictly raw materials right now (and still no real documentation), so be prepared to fill in the gaps… [...]

By: F6

F6 — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:39:04 +0000

Got it working at last! In Firefox. Yep it’s slow. I like the Stonehenge vectors. Gas, do this on Speccy, it could look great!

By: F6

F6 — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 04:17:11 +0000

I can’t run it! Typing LOAD “” and nothing… ;)
Btw. I really can’t run it (Opera 9.01, AMD 1300MHz) :(

And hey, there’s a mistake. The only DAMN good CPU is the Z80!!!!!!!

By: Natalie Downe » Blog Archive » Show and tell at work

Natalie Downe » Blog Archive » Show and tell at work — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:59:25 +0000

[...] The content of the show and tell itself was high too, Sian showed the cool news ticker she had seen on the NME site Sally demonstrated Remember the milk, the to-do list application we both use (its really neat), JP found this ultimately cool flickr image search based on a colour wheel that I cant remember the URL for, Matthew stole the show though with his JavaScript demo, using nothing but native browser rendering techniques, so cool! [...]

By: matt

matt — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:10:38 +0000

ica: Yep, no Speccy releases this time. Bit of a bad year for the oldschool compos as a whole, really.

Eq: Yeah, that was briefly explained in the end scrolly of Redbug… basically I came to the conclusion that it was impossible for anyone to remember, or pronounce. And it made it really annoying to introduce myself at parties: “Hi, I’m Equinox.” “Hi, I’m – er, well it depends actually.”

By: Eq

Eq — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:01:09 +0000

p01, thanks – I got it to work.
Did you drop the Shingebis nick, Gasman?

By: icabod

icabod — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 14:50:19 +0000

To be fair, I did try it late at night, so I was tired. It prolly didn’t work on any browser and I halucinated the whole thing.

By: icabod

icabod — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 14:48:11 +0000

Hmm. Maybe it was Opera I tried it in, then. I know that it wouldn’t work for me in Firefox, and worked in the next browser I tried, which is usually IE.

And the non-mention on raww.org was exactly as it wasn’t ZX-oriented… I considered mentioning it coz it was you, but figured people who would be interested would spot it on your blog or pouet anyway.

In fact I didn’t mention Assembly at all as I didn’t spot any ZX releases – unless I missed some.