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Amiga • The Weekly Demo

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

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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!

C64 • The Weekly Demo

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!

Atari ST • The Weekly Demo

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

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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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