Posts Tagged ‘demo’

• By Rich

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  demo, Retro, zx spectrum

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  Demoscene

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  Mescaline Synesthesia by deMarche (ZX Spectrum Demo)

  1st Jan 2010

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  Ok so my first post in 2010 is about a demo for a 28 year old computer (the ZX Spectrum) but bloody hell, what a demo it is! Here’s a collection of grabs (from Pouet):

  

  … and here’s the demo on YouTube.

  Bear in mind that the humble Speccy is running on a Z80 at a mere 3.5 MHz – that’s probably significantly slower than the processor in your microwave oven.

• By Rich

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  demo, gravity crash, hohoho, jaw, ps3, xmas

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  Cool Links

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  Happy Christmas Demo

  18th Dec 2009

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  To celebrate a highly productive 2009, the chaps over at Just Add Water game studio asked me to create a Flash Christmas card for them. They provided all assets and wanted it to showcase the successes of 2009, such as the release of Gravity Crash on the PS3. But also to include a few gentle nods towards 2010.

  

  The music is by CoLD SToRAGE (he of Wipeout fame) and is from the Gravity Crash game soundtrack, available next year. Also due out is the PSP version. If you’ve not yet had a chance to try it, then do so!

  Click here to see the Christmas card in action.

  Check out some monster Gravity Crash videos.

• By Rich

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  amiga, demo, Flod, future composer, pyronova, sidmon, stardust

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  Flod

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  FlodEx 1.01 – SidMon, Future Composer and BP SoundMod supported

  16th Dec 2009

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  Christian has been busy! FlodPro was already the best Amiga module replay library available for AS3. But not content with that he went and added support for 3 new chip-tune formats: SidMon, Future Composer and BP SoundMod.

  As a special Christmas present for those who visit this blog I whipped up this little demo, showcasing 6 tunes, 2 of each newly supported format.

  Hit the jump to see the demo in action 🙂

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• By Rich

  Tags

  demo, music, nectarine

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  Demoscene

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  Nectarine Radio is Back!

  10th Nov 2009

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  Sorry if you already knew this, but out of pure chance I thought I would check to see if one of my favourite web sites – Nectarine Demoscene Radio – was back on-line today, and lo and behold, it was! Nectarine had been streaming classic and modern demo scene tunage across the tubes for years. Site admin Yes had built up an awesome collection (18,000+ mp3s!) and like lots of other people I had saved hundreds of favourite tunes on there, voted on thousands, and listened to probably weeks worth of tunes!

  And then some script kiddie went and ruined it for us all. He found an exploit in a script, and wiped the whole database and back-up. The site died and the scene lost a little bit of its heart the same day.

  Lots of people wanted to help bring it back. I offered my services (as did many others)  but the events obviously took their toll on the Admin, and the site was destined to be nothing more than a fond memory. I would check back every 4 months or so, just in case, and today I struck gold 🙂

  So I putting a shout out – if you used to listen to Nectarine, or are just interested in 24-hour streaming demo scene coolness, then go over there, register and help to breathe life back into the site again.

  http://www.scenemusic.eu

• By Rich

  Tags

  64kb, assembly, demo, evoflash, intro, presentation, quicktime

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  Demoscene

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  Proof of Concept – Evoflash 64k intro

  9th Aug 2009

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  EvoFlash have released the first ever 64k intro for Flash Player 10 – “Proof of Concept”. It features some new to Flash effects such as a nice looking multi-ridged fractals voxel landscape and bezier curve tweened particles, with a lovely depth of field effect. This is supported by a thumping 36-voice soundtrack. Again remember it’s a 64KB SWF with no external media.

  The intro is nicely put together, harking back to the yesteryear of demo style. It’s a bit “showing off” and self congratulatory, as if they are challenging other Flash demo crews to do better (which might be hard, because there virtually are none!). You are bombarded with the technical facts during the demo, rather than left to enjoy the aesthetics of it. But still, it’s great to see and a bit of a benchmark.

  Watch it here: http://mediaerror.com/temp/proof_of_concept_by_evoflash/

  Anthology of Flash Demo History Video

  The coder behind this demo (Jalava) also gave a presentation at the recent Assembly Summer 2009 Convention entitled the “Anthology of Flash Demo History”. This is fascinating viewing and you can watch it online here. That link is to the h264 QuickTime MP4 file, which is just under 630MB. Don’t let that put you off as  it’s well worth the download or stream if your connection can handle it 🙂