Probably the first PC demo that I truly respected, this 64KB piece is amazing and remains one of demoscene’s biggest classics. Released at the legendary MEKKA & SYMPOSIUM party, ranked 1st.
(yes I know it’s not wednesday :P)
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After 3 years of PSP homebrew development, and with little involvement of the demoscene with it, TBL’s demo still remains on the top of the list for this platform. No other production has, as of yet, reached the bar set by Suicide Barbie. TBL, with a long story of Amiga demoscene quality bar pushing, is not very active nowadays, unfortunately. Enjoy. I skipped a Wednesday, I know. I am very, very busy with work and trying to set up an Euro tour. Anyway, not much time for introductions here today. Once upon a time on IRC, a french dude I spoke to in one of the 0-day emulation channels I used to frequent (where we excitedly saw the birth of Neo Geo emulation among other things!) kept babbling about this “Amstrad CPC” computer. I always heralded it as a sub-standard 8-bit platform that didn’t gain much success, but this dude was insistent and eloquent regarding his machine (which apparently was a huge hit n France). He showed me some stuff, progressively: games, demos, music, introduced me to emulation of said platform… To cut a long story short, I was soon on eBay hunting for an Amstrad CPC 6128, which I finally got. It’s a really great machine which has, in my opinion, one of the best fixed palettes among 8-bit computers, and our beloved AY-8192 PSG which we learned to love on the Spectrum (and the Atari ST’s cousin, the YM-2149). This is by far one of the best demos to date for this platform, I don’t know how they pushed so many colours on screen, but I am happy they did it. Enjoy it. For 2010 and if I don’t forget, I will be posting a new demo every Wednesday. Not necessarily 2010 material, so pay attention before you make next year TCTD Award nominations in this category, I don’t want you to nominate old stuff :P This should sparkle your interest in the oldschool platform demoscene though. Let’s start up with this amazing production from Sander van den Borne‘s demogroup, Focus Title: Trans*Form. |
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