*Most impressive.* _Never_ saw anything even close to the quality of recent Scene Demoz in the demo tapes of 1984. Even so, releases back then were no less hungrily anticipated and never failed to delight or inspire. Well done, it takes a lot of time & talent & dedication to produce such things.
I've tried to copy it to floppy too using my Backbit cartridge, but alas, it will not do it. I have noticed the 2 disk files are bigger in kilobytes than other normal disks, so that must be why...But I don't get it, are there some special disks out there we can only use if we "use the force"? Can anyone shed some light on this please as i'd love to be able to copy this and watch it on my real HW!!
Tons of those effects require an extensive use of CPU timing. If games were to implement those effects, then there would be little to no time to process the actual gameplay. And, well, yeah, coding was harder back in the day: no swift IDEs, no emulators to instantly check on, no internet to rely on, etc.
Crossdev, highly improved tools and newly found quirks in the hardware that can be used to one's advantage. Also what Kolyasisan implied ... Demos are not interactive or to a very little degree, meaning you don't have to deal with dynamic logic being processed.
I wholeheartedly disagree. It's a stunning demo. Let's be honest, we've seen most effects by now (although Bonzai's unboxed had some awesome scrollers), and it's the art-direction that counts. On top of that, X-2018 felt 'light' on demos. Where was a ''proper' booze demo? Or oxyron? Or FLT/Offence/Prosonix? Or Shape? Or Atlantis Or.. Or... Is the event tapering off? I would hate to see this scene die.
Boring because of monotheme (nice gfx and visuals though). Only multiscreen picture in the bar had some interesting outside-theme references. And the satanist propaganda, clearly misunderstood by the one who wrote that scroll text at the end (destruction and fear don't let C64 creativity thrive for sure)... Mindcontrolled cult of death slaves? ;)
I love the c64. Such an amazing computer from back then. And the sid chip is amazing.
*Most impressive.* _Never_ saw anything even close to the quality of recent Scene Demoz in the demo tapes of 1984. Even so, releases back then were no less hungrily anticipated and never failed to delight or inspire. Well done, it takes a lot of time & talent & dedication to produce such things.
The Force is with this demo. Amazing work!
Love the Bowie rebel reference at the end.
Sounds so much better with that era computers than the original music!
This was run on TC64 flawlessly. :D
Wow. This was an insanely great demo.
Amazing demo! I wish I could code 6510 like that!
2:35 Eddie! The greatest trooper.
Greetings! someone managed to copy the demo to floppy disk with cbm-command? to me it gives me an invalid image!
I've tried to copy it to floppy too using my Backbit cartridge, but alas, it will not do it. I have noticed the 2 disk files are bigger in kilobytes than other normal disks, so that must be why...But I don't get it, are there some special disks out there we can only use if we "use the force"?
Can anyone shed some light on this please as i'd love to be able to copy this and watch it on my real HW!!
At 6:36 R2-D2 passes Marvin from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
2:36 Iron Maiden - Aces High
Stunning.
Admiral Ackbar puts on a hell of a briefing.
Wow! 👍 BTW: LOVE the Day Of The Tentacle reference :-)... or was it Maniac Mansion?
Allan Ø.N. DOTT. Maniac Mansion only had green tentacle. Did you notice LeChuck as well?
@@jasperd.5734 sorry.. did not notice zombie pirate LeChuck first or second time .. good excuse to view again :).. now I did.. thanks :)
Allan Ø.N. I just noticed Leisure Suit Larry talking to Leia in the bar as well. And is Indiana Jones there too?
Jasper D. Again well spotted. Think so. Yes!! :-)..
Tentacles don't have arms in MM ;) That's specific to DOTT
Star was demo is Amazingk! Thank you o7
Worthy winner!
That part in the 'SCUMM BAR' was funny.
THE BAR SCENE LOL
but does it only work with an emulator?
Awesome!
❤
7:10
Genial
if the C64 can work with these types of graphics, I wonder why we didn't get to see things of this quality in games back in the day.
Tons of those effects require an extensive use of CPU timing. If games were to implement those effects, then there would be little to no time to process the actual gameplay. And, well, yeah, coding was harder back in the day: no swift IDEs, no emulators to instantly check on, no internet to rely on, etc.
Crossdev, highly improved tools and newly found quirks in the hardware that can be used to one's advantage.
Also what Kolyasisan implied ... Demos are not interactive or to a very little degree, meaning you don't have to deal with dynamic logic being processed.
in fact most of the gfx in here doesnt need trickery, simply ppl put much more effort and spent decades on practicing.
@@kangarht That effort is to get all the trickery to work..
@ I am talking about the graphics not the effects :) most - if not all gfx here uses the standard gfx modes no trickery in that regard.
No Star Wars Scroller? Meh....
Great job ripping off Olly Moss' poster designs.
You know you've done well when a 8 bit micro looks scary close to the real thing
Why would that be considered ripping off any more than anything else here, his designs are widely known.
Imo star wars themed demo was a somewhat cheap shot for votes. That said it's nice, but not 1st place nice.
I wholeheartedly disagree. It's a stunning demo. Let's be honest, we've seen most effects by now (although Bonzai's unboxed had some awesome scrollers), and it's the art-direction that counts. On top of that, X-2018 felt 'light' on demos.
Where was a ''proper' booze demo? Or oxyron? Or FLT/Offence/Prosonix? Or Shape? Or Atlantis Or.. Or...
Is the event tapering off? I would hate to see this scene die.
Full sux
Boring because of monotheme (nice gfx and visuals though). Only multiscreen picture in the bar had some interesting outside-theme references. And the satanist propaganda, clearly misunderstood by the one who wrote that scroll text at the end (destruction and fear don't let C64 creativity thrive for sure)... Mindcontrolled cult of death slaves? ;)
"satanist propaganda", told by Warlock, hm...?