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Breakpoint 2009 wrap-up Part Two

I hope you enjoyed the demo wrap up because here is part two. I almost forgot about these, to be honest, so I am sorry!

What we have here is a bunch of files in the categories of Music, Graphics and Games.

All the oldschool platforms are bundled together on one music category, called “executable oldschool music”. Don’t ask me about the ‘executable’ part, some of these did not come in any sort of executable format. Pixel graphics are not a very popular thing nowadays on the demoscene, so this year we only got one category to cater for that: C64 graphics. Fortunately for the oldschoolers among us, they made an unofficial compo for ASCII and ANSI graphics so we have that too. Then we have 96KB game, which was multiplatform and had a very cool game for the C64.

So, let’s hit it on with all the data!

Click here to see all the data!

Amiga • C64 • Pixel Art • Spectrum • Visual Artists

Digital Tools Profiles: Ptoing

ptoing-zxfaces“Brilliant Pixelartists don’t fall from trees. But there are people who know just how to place the right colors on the right places. Sven Ruthner is such a man. The demoscener known under the alias Ptoing just got the right feel for colors and for intense shapes and proportions. The illustrator works with different media, but is also very enthusiastic about vintage homecomputers, like using C64, Amiga or Spectrum ZX”

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Spectrum

8BITTODAY: 256k Byte Compo

rawwy2009_articleNice dissection of the entrants in a compo earlier this month. Great read, with plenty of videos. Excerpt:

What could you say in 256 characters? To get an idea; it’s a little more than one and a half text messages on your mobile phone. Now if you had to program something in 256 characters, what would, or maybe mostly could that be? It’s the same idea like our article on Artefacts by Plush, working with artificial limitations on limited hardware.

8bittoday

Spectrum • TCTD 2008 Awards

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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