Author: 8GB

  • Best Demo Production V

    We finish off this category with the final and one of the most wanted pieces in the nomination rounds…

    Making jaws drop when presented at the X’2008 party in The Netherlands (where it got a more than deserved first position), Booze Designs’ demo brings forth a bag of surprises for our Commodores, pushing the 64 past its limits with an array of effects before thought impossible. Couple this with nice graphics and music (Dane doing a double role there!) and you got yourself a winner.

    The bar for tchnological achievement on the stock C64 platform has been raised once again, until X’2010 perhaps? :)

    Ladies and gentleman, this is:

    Edge of Disgrace by Booze Design
    [C64]

    Part 1
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    Part 2
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  • Best Demo Production IV

    Even though this category has been devised with the milking of stock vintage hardware in mind, we had to put an Amiga demo in there.

    What do I mean with this? The expansions available for the Amiga computers, in many cases, have by far exceeded what we would consider an oldschool platform, and many of the demos being released today for the Amiga use fast accelerators and other stuff unavailable on stock hardware years ago. This puts the Amiga demoscene in a different spot to the C64 or Spectrum one. Unfortunately, the Amiga demoscene is not as blooming as other scenes nowadays. There are very few demogroups that are still releasing for it, and most just don’t cover old hardware like A500, or even a stock 1A200. Fortunately the combined output of these few groups is of high quality (Uprough being my favourite group) and every year we can count on some good productions.

    Getting a second place this year at Breakpoint’s Amiga competition and with some nice tech skills to wit coupled with a style which reminds us of “survival horror” games like Silent Hill, we present you our fourth nomination in the demo category:

    Soliloquy by Elude
    [Amiga]

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  • Best Demo Production III

    I’ll start this post wishing everyone a happy new year! I hope all your chippy wishes come true :D

    So, we should be going on with this even if the holidays are in the middle so allow me to introduce you to the next nominee in the Demo Production category. This demo got the second place at the Chaos Constructions demoparty:

    Personal Nightmare by Omega Hackers Group
    [Spectrum] (#2 at Chaos Constructions)

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  • Best Demo Production II

    After the brilliant Atari 2600 demo by Trilobit, we bring you a production for the Atari ST that got the 2nd place at the Alternative Party ’08 which took place in Helsinki, Finland, from the 24th to the 26th of October 2008.

    A warm welcome to our second nominee:

    More Or Less Zero by Dead Hackers Society

    [Atari ST]

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  • Best Demo Production I

    The demoscene, largely unknown to a lot of chip-people (specially those of the young/neophyte type), is in my regard, one of the biggest nurturers of today’s chipmusic. A lot of your nowadays inventions for “contemporary chipmusic” have come out of the minds and style of these (mostly) european whizzes, who hack at their keyboards marvelous code routines that try to get the most out of their hardware of choice.

    Of all the demoscene of today, the branch most related to us and, to me, the most interesting one, is the “oldschool demoscene”, where old computers are milked way, way past their original limitations, putting the old saying “teaching an old dog new tricks” to very good use.

    With no further to add, I present you to the first nomination in these series.

    Doctor, by Trilobit
    [Atari 2600]

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