Sundance by Slipstream

[Devilmarkus]

Few days later, but I almost forgot to post my latest bull.... CPC prod here...

"Sundance" by Slipstream.

We made #6 of 7 possible ranks in "OldSkool" category / Sundown party... (So we were not the last at least)

Pouet:

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=63610

Youtube:



Online:



Have fun with stuttering BASIC & ASM routines

[tastefulmrship]

A nice little demo; some decent ideas. The loading bar and "crash" were quite funny.

[arnoldemu]

Each demo shows improvement

[GOB]

Bof bof bof...


Not good gfx; not good code... Not good demo...


Stop saying everythink is good !!!

[Devilmarkus]

I never said, it has good code, GFX etc...

More sad I find the fact, that we already "celebrated" the CPCs 30th birthday, and really noone of our special-elite-hyper-threaded-undercover-hitech-demo-group released any demo...

[robcfg]

I agree with Jonah, first time you see the loading bar go crazy you really feel annoyed, hehe!

And yes, not a batman forever killer, but it's nice. And, hey! I haven't created a cpc demo yet, so I cannot complain. :-)

[TFM]

Some new ideas! Great work. 

[Gryzor]

Can't complain, I like watching new stuff so thanks I didn't quit it half-way through, so it must account for something!

[tastefulmrship]

Bof bof bof...


Not good gfx; not good code... Not good demo...


Stop saying everythink is good !!!

Right... ok...?!?!?!

It's far better than anything I could ever do. For me, it's very entertaining.
The read error and screen corruption really fooled me! When it "rebooted" and there was no STK ROMs, I then knew it was fake and simply part of the demo and I found that pretty impressive and amusing!

[TMR]

i accidentally beat this in the competition with a Spectrum demo despite still having the Z80 L plates on...! But if it helps, How Does This Work Again? is getting a major slating over at Pouet. =-)

(The Atari 8-bit music driver i wrote for one of Bex's tunes that was moved to the demo competition and came last seems to be surprisingly popular though... not sure i understand how that works?!)

[Optimus]

Bof bof bof...


Not good gfx; not good code... Not good demo...


Stop saying everythink is good !!!

It's good to see newcomers. This has many parts, a new group on CPC. It's too slow, I understand this. Has some spirit at least, nice ideas.
I think it's much better than my Procrastinopolis. And these are new people! I am veteran who release bad stuff sometimes.
But you are allowed to say it's bad, I don't take it as arrogance. And we are allowed to be more soft too, maybe we don't want to drive away newbies, maybe we just don't feel like being too negative.

[arnoldemu]

Markus, When do you plan your next demo?

Have you considered making a plus demo using b-asic?

[Overflow]

Nice! I enjoyed it, thank you guys. I also like some facts around the demo: newcomers, basic, multi-parts, not-a-top-notch-prod (*), balls to release it at a party.

* This deserves some words. I miss the not-so-old days, with some Xmas demos and some other nice but not top-notch releases. Definitely not my opinion: rising the average level of (CPC) releases by removing those so cute surprises. Look at CPC games (versus demos): some massive works (Orion Prime, R-Type) but also numerous other releases, from impressive australian and german games to nice spanish and french games. Wow! the CPC game scene is alive! Back to CPC demos: thank you Slipstream, I'm so glad that you release such a prod (and don't misunderstand: I also enjoyed the whole show).

[Devilmarkus]

I don't plan anything...
In fact I even did not plan this masterpiece of demo

Steve (TCM) asked me 3 days before the Sundown event happened, if I could help him to "improve" a little BASIC demo, he wrote, a bit...

Well, that's the result...

[Overflow]

Bof bof bof...
Not good gfx; not good code... Not good demo...
Stop saying everythink is good !!!

I'm not sure anyone would say it's a good demo. But: it's a good surprise, it's good news, it was good to watch it. Enjoying a show is a question of feeling and taste. Don't misunderstand: I respect those people (let's call them: sceners) and I do understand they won't like the demo cos' they have their own rules of what a good demo should be. I hope they will (try to) understand that such a release is good enough for us me.

[Devilmarkus]

I'm not sure anyone would say it's a good demo. But: it's a good surprise, it's good news, it was good to watch it. Enjoying a show is a question of feeling and taste. Don't misunderstand: I respect those people (let's call them: sceners) and I do understand they won't like the demo cos' they have their own rules of what a good demo should be. I hope they will (try to) understand that such a release is good enough for us me.

Well, it's ok... Every critic is ok...

[trollspoiler]

Spoiler: ShowHide

And perhaps, one day, in 2025 or so, we can really watch the "30 years Amstrad CPC megademo"

Edit: Sure, I can understand it... We are all older now, have work, families... And really: 30 years of preparing a really cool megademo is a very short time only...

Really: If the 30th birthday didn't come somewhat unexpected, we sure already had a megademo, hadn't we?

[/trollspoiler]

[MacDeath]

Anyway, another Batman killer !!!

[tastefulmrship]

Anyway, another Batman killer !!!

Another? No other demo has even ever come CLOSE to Batman Forever... let alone beat it!

[MacDeath]

where have you been since Batman ?
every demos released killed the Batman at least twice. 

[tastefulmrship]

where have you been since Batman ?
every demos released killed the Batman at least twice. 

I must have been on Mars when that happened; the two BIG demos since BF I know of were no even close to it (one even claimed not be even trying to beat BF; which was the AMAZING "Breaking Baud" by Doz; which I still regard as SECOND only to BF). Which demo(s) are you referring to? Maybe I was on Mars when a demo actually beat the Spanish super-demo!

EDIT: Ok, PHORTEM is in battle with BREAKING BAUD for #2 spot; those ANGEL/DEMON and TWIST scroller routines were stunning as well as the overall design and theme. Beautiful. It's hard to choose between them!

[TFM]

 Ruhig Brauner... Back to topic please! There are numerous BF threads already (usually hijacked by this guy).

[MacDeath]

damn, I was just spotted... 

[TFM]

Was it you? 

[Gryzor]

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