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Title: What was the first real "Demo" for the CPC?
Post by: Prodatron on 16:13, 26 June 24

Demo in todays definition:
- non commercial
- made by enthusiast just for fun
- show effects, which do more things like these typical (basic) type-ins from the old times

I found this for the Atari 8bit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3klayTlZDg
It's from 1986 and could already been defined as a "demo".
Did we have something like this on the CPC as well already at this time?

Title: Re: What was the first real "Demo" for the CPC?
Post by: roudoudou on 17:13, 26 June 24

Probably a danish guy ;D

Title: Re: What was the first real "Demo" for the CPC?
Post by: St-BeidE(DE/GB) on 17:24, 26 June 24

The ABBUC was founded in 1985.
There are probably older demos.

Steven

Title: Re: What was the first real "Demo" for the CPC?
Post by: Prodatron on 17:27, 26 June 24

Quote from: roudoudou on 17:13, 26 June 24Probably a danish guy ;D

Seems, that NWC made his first "intro" in 1987.

Title: Re: What was the first real "Demo" for the CPC?
Post by: roudoudou on 17:42, 26 June 24

does this count?
https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=17066

i remember some nice "two-lines" with spectacular color cycling in very old Hebdogiciel mag

Title: Re: What was the first real "Demo" for the CPC?
Post by: lmimmfn on 18:47, 26 June 24

The demo that came with the 464 :D

Honestly though the first real demo i saw was on the Amiga, probably the Red Sector Demo Creator, and a lot of cracktro's of course.

Title: Re: What was the first real "Demo" for the CPC?
Post by: rexbeng on 19:16, 26 June 24

I think Hicks is the person to give an answer to the (title) question as he has been doing research for his Memory Full book(s); although I do believe there has been some controversy. Longshot has been making a lot arguments on his blog regarding the claims made in the book. Sadly since Memory Full is only in French I cannot build a complete opinion over things.

Title: Re: What was the first real "Demo" for the CPC?
Post by: roudoudou on 20:40, 26 June 24

in fact there was already a subject about this
https://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/demos/history-of-amstrad-cpc-demomaking/

Title: Re: What was the first real "Demo" for the CPC?
Post by: asertus on 11:32, 27 June 24

I remember when I saw first time the "demo" of an Amstrad.., the one that came along the computers.., just staring at the colors and the sound...

Early 1985...

Title: Re: What was the first real "Demo" for the CPC?
Post by: merman on 12:02, 27 June 24

The demo scene evolved out of cracking - so what was the earliest crack intro for the CPC?

Title: Re: What was the first real "Demo" for the CPC?
Post by: ComSoft6128 on 14:56, 27 June 24

Not a full demo and probably a bit late in the day (1986) but worth seeing anyway....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Go8cwSDzQ

The YT comments are also interesting.

Link:
https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&onglet=notices&num=9154

Title: Re: What was the first real "Demo" for the CPC?
Post by: ZorrO on 20:54, 06 July 24

There is fast drawing Boing:
https://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/other-retro/retro-asylum-110-the-amiga-bonanza/msg95945/#msg95945

Title: Re: What was the first real "Demo" for the CPC?
Post by: BSC on 22:44, 06 July 24

There's another contender, even if it's not very good looking.
But it was non-commercial, made for fun and contains some effects like rasters and even hardware-scrolling :)

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=96953

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