This is a nice, flexible plasma effect for Z80-based computers. It is ported from the C64 demo Plascii Petsma by Camelot using the custom gradient characters from Produkthandler Kom Her, also by Camelot.
- change the palette independent of the effect
- hold a particular effect on screen indefinitely
- switch immediately to a new effect
- runtime generation of random effects
- adjust parameters to customize an effect
- Youtube Video for more information.
- Hackaday.io article
- RC2014 or RCBus-compatible system with TMS9918A video board
- MSX
- Agon-compatible system (work in progress)
- Generic Z80/Z180: sjasm or sjasmplus
- Agon (eZ80): agon-ez80asm
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