Clearing out my demo backlog : Wild
by LFT
like RBBS a demozoo id in the 3000s, considering we are close to the 150000 these guys are still pretty early in the game.
considering fairlight is in the early 300 and Triad in the 800s ... Then again ofcourse i doubt demozoo was around in 1986 and today still pouet takes most of the traffic and buzz there.
Then ofcourse you got csdb (just google im too lazy to link) and zxart and many others , aminet and atarimania and whatnot for specific cults (its close to a cult sometimes but its a bit less heavy than it used to be , i doubt you wanted to be caught with a c64 and an Atari ST in the same room in the 90s or risk being burned at the stake and banished from the land forever)
The language has gotten a bit meek too , greeting are alphabetical so no one feels like someone else gets preference ... if you look at early cracktros (mostly, bc the same actually came up AFTER that) you can read by the scrolltext competition was viewed in a different light ...
Monosyllabic words that are only killed by Jesus in America weren't uncommon and frankly my dear
i never seen anyone die from it ...
THAT SAID ... o, the microwave has granted me my honeyed milk .. (out of nesquik and coco ... i havent had butter on my bread for 3 weeks now, its "no longer a necessity")
THAT SAID ... these people still have some disposable income ofcourse, tickets for revision aint free and taking trains and planes from portugal and finland and italy to germany sure aint free either, staying there for a few days aint free, loading your gear aint free and
buying stuff aint free, retro computers take a really fair ( who came up with that word in that meaning) price today
Beer huh ? i havent had beer in ... months ... and i ordered some sake before the grand news that santa brings "no income" for christmas" and that was the last of it
THAT SAID ...
Mostly old men doing shiney things and reminiscing about better days - while the A.I. goes BUT I CAN PASS THE FIRST CHALLENGE AT GOOGLE ...
it can probably not write 78 rastersplits on a c64 or
do something wild on a pico or a zero
Most of these people in the winning section are quite tek savvy, some might even denominate them as hackers but
obviouslyl not Mitnick-level
hobbyists who in a lot of cases have some boring dayjob thats attached to a keyboard , lots who retire these days and get more time and start getting back on the scene starting with that demo we never finished back then
and i bet a shitload that got fucked in the ass by a CEO and his A.I. ...
i wonder about the day when the mighty investors realize "THE" a.i. can do all that firing just fine without a CEO and that CEO really costs a lot for what its worth
THAT SAID
this one on the pico (or was it a zero) is a fine example of "wild" demos , there's a few of those lying around here attached to stuff
from when money could be spent on stuff, i see one here in a box while typing
mmm, but thats not the one the guy in the demo is using ...
These people really know their things in and out, right
for instance
brings another hit to the table . Always looking for "stuff that hasnt been done" some guys come up with the craziest shit.
Why we dont list the revision winner , as we have seen 25000 oscilloscope demos by now , its a good one but hardly the most fresh wild produce this year imo .. i bet it went down well in a hall full of drunk 50 years old guys on pills (ofcourse not, there are no drugs on the scene, officer) because of the dubstep and the epilleptic lightshow ... WE certainly couldnt do it without research BUT well, stuff like this is more impressive and novel if you like
to us it is
switching the audio and video cable and writing a piece of software the simulates raster bars and stuff up to plasma-like effects while the video does audio ?
Quiss seems to only come outside if he has found something hackable , there's a nice one before
where they use the drive heads of a 1541 floppy to create audio for a demo
and here, on home-territory
which is actually not wild but something that wasnt done on a c64 before, however you'd have to be an inside scener or democoder to appreciate what actually is so badass about it i bet , borders aint really a thing anymore ( but we see them rising again everywhere hah hah hah ... maybe they'll be trendy again soon) and rotating a cube in the corner might be a bit harder than you think on a c64 ...
however i thin the thing here is that he found a way to do this in LESS opcodes (leaving more cycles for something else or just having more cube because of the extra cycles you can spend)
just like LFT has the nine sprite and fairlight with the 76 rastersplits
42 years later pushing the limit of their childhood friend
something the mad character vetting you at google cant hack
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drifting off-topic huh ?
well what do you want for 30 cents ??
Wild demos often move close to the domain of Mitnick (may he forever hack in peace)
electronics
...
i think my fav must be
Pharmageddon by the paramedics
Yea, even family guy from Germany takes part !
so yea, i dont they're sponsored to do that, own-wallet , and mostly just for bragging rights and a lot of train and ticket fares on top
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"WILD"
eeh, i probably have stuff to do
so ...
who's got the coolest dads ???
heheh
muh haha