Presented at Gubbdata 2022, my first entry for a Demo Compo.
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 intended.

The notefile included with the demo on real hardware, including my comments for the visual part:

The actual demo projection at Gubbdata. A BRIGHT SHING STAR topped at third position in the Wild Demo Compo.