Author: 8GB

  • dvik & joyrex – Bold (2009)

    Full of color for an MSX1 (not MSX2) machine, this demo has become a classic of the platform.
    Even though it has some pre-rendered parts, I still enjoy it a lot, specially because of those crunchy AY beats.

  • 8 Bit Music – Malaysian Chiptune

    Documentary that covers the south-east Asian scene of chipmusic, a very interesting one if you ask me. You have the input of interesting people that you are not used to hear, for example Ikuma, from a totally different point of view to American or European counterparts. Some footage is “obtained”  but most is shot by these young aspiring artists and enthusiasts.

    Check it out:

  • Excellance In Art – Talk Talk 2 – The Church of Excellence in Art (2010)

    FANTASTIC Atari ST demo by super crew Excellence in Art.
    Good art direction  and music, kind of gets too “demo-ish” at the end but I enjoyed it through.

    Best of all, recently released! So this is fresh material :)

    Enjoy

  • Spaceballs – 9 Fingers (1993)

    This week I present you a true classic of the demoscene. 9 Fingers is the sequel to Spaceballs’ State of the Arts demo, both the sole cause of many OOHs, AHHs and WTFs directed at Amigas worldwide when they were released (and also a TON of criticism from the demoscene, believe it or not. Things changed a lot after this demo). I clearly remember showing this to my sad PC friends and they couldn’t believe this was coming off a floppy on a 7Mhz computer. (yes this runs on any Amiga 500 with 1MB of RAM)

    Revolutionary at the time, it was produced digitizing video and with a tool that converted this video to vector animation. It was unseen before and earned Spaceballs a huge hit in the all time Demoscene Hall of Fame (if it existed).

    I leave you with the demo and if you want, after the jump, there is a MAKING OF video showing the production shots that generated the demo. They were kids and I always find this really cool, that these kids were using their time making audiovisual presentations in code instead of wasting it. Don’t laugh too much at their goofy dance moves xD

    People even more interested can check out this thread at EAB where a  little interview done by Spaceballs themselves to the girl that dances in State of the Art who also appears on 9 Fingers (the brunette) is discussed.

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  • Tristar & Red Sector Inc. & Ate Bit – Vuvuzelatro (2010)

    World Cup craze had to arrive to TCTD.

    4mat posted this some days ago and fortunately someone made a little intro with it!
    Before you think this post is bullshit, you should realize the complexity of replicating such an analog and “human” sound like that of the vuvuzela with a synth like the SID chip. 4mat is a true master of the SID! And the whole intro is only 4KB. Nice Hires graphic too.

    The sound of the video is a bit weird. Here you can listen to the original post by 4mat

    I will not say “enjoy this demo” this time XD