"T.M.R's final entry into the 2018 Intro Creation Competition is Level One, a game-flavoured release with full screen scrolling and twenty six characters of text in the two black bands above and below it. The graphics in the centre of the screen were drawn to use Extended Background Colour Mode which reduces the font to 64 characters but gives four possible background colours for each character; this means there's five colours in play but the code doesn't have to scroll the colour RAM."
"Despite being the last ICC 2018 entry produced by T.M.R this was actually the first one started a few days after the competition was announced. The intro was built around prototype versions of the border area code.
"As with the music for 'Oldest Style', the music was originally written for the CSDb 'Crack Intro Music Competition 2017', but ended up not being used because it was too long and didn't work well on a 6581 SID; it was written with 8580 in mind. It has been finished and used here instead
The name of the music is 'Y Sgrechian o Jarre', which is Welsh for 'The Scream of Jarre'. Named because of the BBC style radiophonic type 'scream' at the start and as I was writing it, some sounds/patterns in it reminded me of Jarre's 'Calypso 1' from 'Waiting for Cousteau'.
The intro can be downloaded from the Cosine website here or it's compo entry page on CSDb here...
You can also download the intro direct from this blog, with the .zip file including not only the demo on a .d64 image, but the music as a .sid file to run through SIDPlay or similar and the music in .sng format which can be loaded into Goattracker, the utility in which it was composed. Just click here...
T.M.R has also recorded a video of the intro in action and uploaded it to YouTube. The player should appear below, but if not watch it here...
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