Author: 8GB

  • Dekadence & Accession – Grind (2010)

    The 2010 edition of Asssembly has left us with a bunch of nice stuff to chew on. As it appears on the Interweb, properly captured in YouTube pleasure, I will make a good selection and post it next week, because I am leaving on tour (Mexico + Japan) and I won’t be able to update this column until I return, which will be more than a month.

    So, for now, I leave you with the winner of the oldschool competition. An Amiga demo, running, allegedly, on a 68030 @ 25Mhz, which by today’s Amiga demoscene standards (060 @ 100Mhz), it’s  pretty low spec and it means my 030@50 can happily run it. Yay!

    Very cool work from Britelite and very interesting metal-inspired vibe.

    Enjoy

  • Assembly Summer 2010

    It’s Assembly time, folks!

    For those unfortunately poor or too far away to get to Helsinki for this classic event, you can follow the action on the video stream.

    When there’s no demo-activity or others, you can see a shit ton of demos, so any fanatic should spend its time watching this for the next 4 days. Also, Syphus is apparently presenting some stuff there. Who’d be crazy enough to give this man a microphone again? :D

    All the action on the AssemblyTV website, where they have many options to watch the stream if you are not satisfied with the in-built Flash player.

  • Baucknecht – Threeve (2008)

    I want to show you today a Commodore Plus/4 demo because I don’t think I posted one before.

    After a bit of scrutiny I decided to post my favourite one. This demo is short but sweet. I love the design of the high-res graphics (specially the one in the begining) and the crunchy TED beats, only in two channels. You can get a SID add-on for the Plus/4 but de-facto it brings nothing but this multiputpose chip called TED

    The Plus/4 was better than the C64 in terms of colors, it can push many more onscreen from a much bigger palette. Also it was almost 2 times faster, however I think scrolling and other smooth effects of the C64 are sadly missing in the Plus/4. All in all, I think it  was a sadly underrated and abandoned little computer. I had one but I never used it, and the remains of it, we destroyed back stage at Blip 2008 :P

    I leave you now with the demo!

  • Ephidrena & Darklite – Chips don’t lie (2010)

    Fresh new material from well known Amiga posses Ephidrena and Darklite!
    Running on AGA Amigas (not sure which spec, I haven’t tried this in my 030 yet)  this demo got the first position at the oldschool competition in Solskogen 2010 party in Norway.

    The demo mixes a cool video capture technique with really nice flat-surface 3D graphics and an acid soundtrack by Response. The code was by well known scener LOADERROR.
    Enjoy!

  • Offence – Victrip (2010)

    Very cool 4 KILOBYTE demo from Offence for the Commodore C64.
    The effects are tightly synced to the audio, which didn’t come through very well thanks to YouTube being poop. So download it for your C64 and test it on the real thing.

    What seems to be quite impressive is that the creator of the demo (who assumed the roles of coder, graphician and musician) started doing stuff for the C64 only one year ago. Impressive!