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30 Years Amstrad Megademo by benediction [web] & Vanity [web]
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release date : june 2016
release party : ReSeT 2016
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rulez added on the 2016-06-25 02:16:20 by frog frog
Nice to see this finally released.
rulez added on the 2016-06-25 08:39:26 by SuTeKH/Epyteor SuTeKH/Epyteor
Awesome! Lots of parts and a bit of interactivity. I find the Benediction part particularly impressive (the plasma, the texture-mapped twisters).

Also, check out the Dirty Minds part. It features dot-rotozoomers and a bit of polygon rasterization.

Great stuff for our beloved Amstrad!
rulez added on the 2016-06-25 10:15:55 by ham ham
It was worth to wait for it!!! Great effects, nice music - well, but I don't like demos with menu systems. Anyway... I have to admit that I enjoyed the small "mini game" selection menu :D.
rulez added on the 2016-06-25 10:36:03 by Octoate Octoate
Yeah Great Prod CPC Rulez!
rulez added on the 2016-06-25 11:03:25 by HerrV HerrV
What to say ? Really Great men !!!!
rulez added on the 2016-06-25 11:23:25 by ast ast
wow!
rulez added on the 2016-06-25 11:28:12 by sensenstahl sensenstahl
Woohoo! I'm loving the menu idea!
rulez added on the 2016-06-25 11:57:02 by Morden Morden
Very boring.
added on the 2016-06-25 12:42:35 by noby noby
Boring my ass. So much content, good looking effects (not that I'd know much about CPC coding), quality gfx/music. Nice to see such a mega group effort pulled off.
rulez added on the 2016-06-25 12:54:28 by break break
Finally it's here! There is a lot of great art, great menu, some really good parts, two parts that unfortunately need CRTC 1 and watched those two on youtube anyway :)

That was a great collaboration, I am pretty sure really hard to coordinate, put all parts together, totally worth the wait!
rulez added on the 2016-06-25 14:49:30 by Optimus Optimus
Wow amazing!!! Code, gfx and musics on a very high level! :)
rulez added on the 2016-06-25 15:52:04 by mad mad
Holy shit!!!
rulez added on the 2016-06-25 17:16:53 by Buckethead Buckethead
Great work and effort! Almost all content is surprising, although it is need to know the limitations of the CPC to understand the merit of some parts.

A slightly more classic than my favorite style, but that was already known. Since the project was raised, I was afraid that the mix of the styles of the authors could be a problem, but the overall result has been pretty good!

C64 users can continue to envying our colorful platform for 30 years more :)

Congratulations!
rulez added on the 2016-06-25 18:39:26 by Rhino/BG Rhino/BG
Better late than never!!
Another mega-gem to prove how great our old CPC is!!!
rulez added on the 2016-06-25 18:52:29 by fgbrain fgbrain
Decent. Long too!
added on the 2016-06-25 21:14:14 by AntDude AntDude
Happy 30th anniversary, Amstrad!
rulez added on the 2016-06-25 22:18:43 by CiH CiH
At last, the 30th years is released for the 32nd year.... well done guys...
Killer release anyway.
rulez added on the 2016-06-25 23:56:48 by MacDeath MacDeath
If you're watching the youtube cap of this stick with it. It builds towards the end. Very nice stuff from Futurs and Vanity/Logon System. Also the menu is sweet.
rulez added on the 2016-06-26 01:06:32 by Claw Claw
a lot of work. way too long to watch without skipping some parts though!
rulez added on the 2016-06-26 01:27:24 by psenough psenough
I still have a thing for megademos, glad to find new ones in 2016 :)
rulez added on the 2016-06-26 05:14:47 by keops keops
Yeah !! Back to Futurs' !!!
rulez added on the 2016-06-26 09:35:13 by Candy Candy
Thats a huge list of involved members. :) Nice result.
rulez added on the 2016-06-26 10:51:52 by .. ..
Rocks!
rulez added on the 2016-06-26 11:04:42 by micdune micdune
It indeed gets better the more things progress (in the video), so keep on watching :)

I specially like the graphics in the menu and the Vanity part, and there's some nice musics here and there.

Really the biggest thing for me is that there's no loader, just a black screen: Is it impossible to make an animated loader on the CPC ?
rulez added on the 2016-06-26 11:32:42 by Dbug Dbug
Champagne! I choose: nice celebration texts from T&J, BND/Eliot which keeps improving, I love Futur's part on CRTC1, surprising poly-Pulkomandy on code+gfx+sfx, vectorized(?) Optimus... Much respect also to BND/Krusty for faith and effort 'til the release.
rulez added on the 2016-06-26 12:18:28 by Overflow Overflow
Boring as hell...
added on the 2016-06-26 14:34:19 by dex46... dex46...
A great selection of effects, good music and a humorous menu. What can I say, excellent.
rulez added on the 2016-06-26 15:08:12 by CraigsBar CraigsBar
Massive - yes! Boring - yes a little bit! Technically great - yes!

Cooperation ideas like this we can see 16 years ago in First Associations Megademo on Speccy http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1978
rulez added on the 2016-06-26 16:34:24 by ded^RMDA ded^RMDA
Many surprises!
Longshot finally releasing some new stuff
Offset finally releasing some new stuff
A new era for GFX (new technics, influence of C64)
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video youtube is cutting offset part at the worst moment! How men!
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i have to see it on a real machine now! DSK in transfer...
rulez added on the 2016-06-26 19:01:50 by roudoudou roudoudou
extra prod ! i have to test it under arnold on linux ! rulez :)
rulez added on the 2016-06-26 19:54:11 by yogib33r yogib33r
Great but i have a problem. Futurs' part work good on real CRTC1. Vanity part don't work (scroll text)... Is anybody got this problem also ?
rulez added on the 2016-06-26 20:07:18 by BDCIron BDCIron
Finally no problem...
added on the 2016-06-26 20:18:44 by BDCIron BDCIron
Nice!
rulez added on the 2016-06-26 23:51:21 by xeron xeron
nice four fx part on the end
rulez added on the 2016-06-27 00:26:18 by Blast! Blast!
wowzers, so many fresh ideas! :)
this is PURE LOVE!
too much awesomeness to comment on everything here!
one starts to wish such a superb collab-demo would be released every year!
rulez added on the 2016-06-27 03:40:22 by ɧ4ɾɗվ. ɧ4ɾɗվ.
Never had an Amstrad, so I don't know too much about it, but this is massive :D
rulez added on the 2016-06-27 08:20:33 by SnC SnC
Awesome Demo! Happy Anniversary!
rulez added on the 2016-06-27 12:59:27 by TMA TMA
So finally, it's there ! Congratulations to everyone involved in this project for completing this coordinated work....

The result is very well designed and the overall level on all fronts (audio, graphic, programming) is amazing ! Thank you all, and long live to our beloved CPC !!!
rulez added on the 2016-06-27 13:06:34 by norecess norecess
Sourcecode for Shinra part is now available, including "cpc.mk" makefile and linker script for easier coding of Amstrad CPC demos using vasm, vlink, and cpctools:
spoiler alert

It is recommended that you first watch the demo and try to understand by yourself what is going on, of course :)
Nice and what Octoate and Optimus said!
rulez added on the 2016-06-27 23:00:49 by RufUsul RufUsul
Quote:
Is it impossible to make an animated loader on the CPC ?

Yes, of course it is possible to have an animated loader with music. It was what we intially expected. However as it has not been delivered, we had to do without it.
added on the 2016-06-28 15:03:23 by krusty krusty
great megademo! :)
rulez added on the 2016-06-28 19:47:54 by gentleman gentleman
N I C E love it
rulez added on the 2016-06-28 20:39:17 by DuckOfMOPS DuckOfMOPS
would have been ok in the 80's
added on the 2016-06-28 21:35:36 by 1in10 1in10
Quote:
would have been ok in the 80's

... says the guy who stole a music that would be ok in 1974.

Great collective effort!
rulez added on the 2016-06-29 22:51:15 by Hicks Hicks
Good idea, very weak demo.

30 years in the shadow of commodore 64 !!! hehe !!!
added on the 2016-06-30 02:48:21 by Batman/BG Batman/BG
Quote:
says the guy who stole...


you are just putting yourself in a box if you think inside someone else's law.
creativity that is expressed inside this box is worth nothing.
your comment is worthless.
added on the 2016-06-30 03:06:07 by 1in10 1in10
Lovely collective work with eclectic and original content! :)
Nice graphics, musics and impressive 50Hz overscan effects. A very funy menu and hidden part too.

The CPC is over the top since 5 years and look to never stop to impress!
Nerds, don't cry here! The shadow over the CPC is due to a persistant eclypse of your renewal...
rulez added on the 2016-06-30 19:07:21 by TotO TotO
Quote:
would have been ok in the 80's


Come on, you do not know this platform :
- most screens were not doable with the knowledge of the 80's
- even in the 90's some effects could have been done by very very few people. Even less people released stuff. Not sure there other demos than these ones which were breakthroughs S&KOH, Madness

For information, the advice given to the participants was to create an old-school like onescreen part. So it is normal and expected if there is a vintage smell.

It does not mean there are no modern hardcore methods under the hood and that it would have been ok in the 80's.

Thumbs up for the work of the other participants and especially Vanity and Futurs which totally contradict this statement
rulez added on the 2016-07-01 08:04:56 by krusty krusty
Finally after 5 or so years in the making its here :)
used to follow the thread on Push&Pop website..
Has some amazing effects on board.. and some great gfx aswell..
Hopefully this inspires others like batman group to release something (big) again :)

Keep it all up ya all!
rulez added on the 2016-07-02 10:34:47 by magic magic
Really nice show here, sweet CPC design!
rulez added on the 2016-07-02 11:35:38 by Dma-Sc Dma-Sc
Great! Kudos for the benediction part.
rulez added on the 2016-07-02 18:43:47 by ok3anos ok3anos
Quote:
Come on, you do not know this platform :
- most screens were not doable with the knowledge of the 80's
- even in the 90's some effects could have been done by very very few people. Even less people released stuff. Not sure there other demos than these ones which were breakthroughs S&KOH, Madness

For information, the advice given to the participants was to create an old-school like onescreen part. So it is normal and expected if there is a vintage smell.


ok. would have ruled in the 80's
added on the 2016-07-02 23:13:40 by 1in10 1in10
Yeah !!!
Merci tout le monde.
added on the 2016-07-03 02:09:06 by Beb Beb
Great collective effort to honour the CPC.
Pouce haut !
rulez added on the 2016-07-03 13:06:39 by RetroVM RetroVM
I do not understand because ye have criticized the comment, I just said that the demo was a good idea, a little low level as in the demo a comment to the scene of commodore is made, only indicated that you will continue 30 years in the shadow of the scene of commodore.

Hopefully the Amstrad scene was so prolific and good as commodore.

Without acrimony.
added on the 2016-07-04 23:10:12 by Batman/BG Batman/BG
Some effects are good technically, but overall it's quantity over quality and design or consistency got lost completely on the way. I much prefer fewer parts with an actual flow and coherent design. C'mon, we're no longer in the 80ies!

Considering the amount of effort involved, I obviously won't downvote this but as a whole it's nothing more than a piggy.
added on the 2016-07-06 11:30:51 by Kylearan Kylearan
Don't know what's wrong with me but i have absolutely no difficulties enjoying good old 80's multipart megademos as well as more modern stuff with "coherent design".

This one had nice selector (for some reason reminded me of jack the nipper 1 :D) and some cool parts.
rulez added on the 2016-07-06 15:40:35 by Serpent Serpent
It is an anniversary demo; most parts where designed with oldshool in mind because of this. At least it is the case of ours. :)
added on the 2016-07-08 18:50:17 by OffseT OffseT
Nice all.
rulez added on the 2016-07-09 10:57:42 by Baudsurfer Baudsurfer
Guys I just wanna say I truly love the fonts.. Most of them are even proportional and some overlapping. Nice work.. Thumbed already (code, music, gfx), but the demo is graphically most of the time just awesome. Atleast the menu is absolutely gorgeous. Nice, too see such advanced CPC stuff in 2016.
added on the 2016-07-09 14:31:18 by mad mad
Great job on the CPC, this one made me pulling the CPC from its storage.

Vanity's part with wrong CRTC is also worth it
rulez added on the 2016-07-09 22:13:43 by Yoshi_Noir Yoshi_Noir
Thumbs up for the work done from all participants, and making this huge collaborative effort come true!
rulez added on the 2016-07-12 11:47:53 by voxy voxy
Great work!
rulez added on the 2016-07-12 20:48:32 by lvd lvd
Rock on CPC \o/

Awesome collaboration guys.
rulez added on the 2016-07-14 12:34:23 by Intrinsic Intrinsic
Awesome collaborative project. I always trust in the final release, even delayed. Congratulations to the 24 persons involved in it...

I consider also this megademo contains the most impressive (till now!) demopart ever seen on CPC: Back to Futurs.
rulez added on the 2016-07-17 22:40:30 by EliotBenediction EliotBenediction
Is the scroller in the first sniper loader part subpixel? :) You must excuse the question since I'm not knowledgeable about Amstrad.
added on the 2016-07-19 02:48:00 by Photon Photon
@photon: there are no subpixels scrollers ; slowests one are a pixel precision, not less
added on the 2016-07-19 10:10:08 by krusty krusty
Some nice screens!
rulez added on the 2016-07-20 17:22:02 by baah baah
A bit too much mega and too less demo for my personal taste, but all parts are pretty good and some are truly spectacular. A quality release by all standards.
rulez added on the 2016-07-23 02:15:29 by Preacher Preacher
overall good, with some flaws
rulez added on the 2016-08-11 19:09:39 by Frequent Frequent
nice collection of one screeners and the "menu" is awesome
rulez added on the 2016-08-11 20:01:29 by Triace Triace
Respect!
rulez added on the 2016-08-31 19:02:31 by cngsoft cngsoft
this is long but really worth watching
there are some impressive parts
great job guys, nicely done
rulez added on the 2017-01-20 13:38:03 by EviL EviL
effort++
rulez added on the 2017-05-06 21:53:47 by T$ T$
Thumb up for the Futurs' and Vanity's screens which are kicking ass!
rulez added on the 2017-11-25 12:40:40 by toms toms
Worth logging in again just to vote for this awesome prod ! :)
rulez added on the 2018-04-02 22:57:26 by faraday faraday
amazing work
thumbs!
rulez added on the 2018-12-05 00:49:01 by Adam Bazaroff Adam Bazaroff
I love the main menu tune (and code/gfx of course) Is it done by Tony? Very memorable artwork :)
@Buckethead: yes, the main menu tune was composed by Tony/ Futurs'.
added on the 2019-01-21 07:36:53 by toms toms
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rulez added on the 2019-02-15 23:55:47 by UltimateW UltimateW
Awesome production. The love and energy put into this demo are clearly noticeable. Great tunes accompanied by a great many of contributions, of which some are simply a demo by itself. You can't miss out on this one; great work!
rulez added on the 2019-12-29 17:00:48 by spkr spkr
Can't believe I did not comment yet. Fantastic production, I have to watch it again to fully appreciate all the hard work. Well done everyone!
rulez added on the 2020-03-08 17:58:30 by BSC BSC
thx for all this arts
rulez added on the 2021-12-10 23:22:05 by med med
Wow amazing!!!
rulez added on the 2022-05-17 12:17:01 by tjahzi(aka Jimi) tjahzi(aka Jimi)
Anyone to seriously handle a 40th anniversary mega demo?
added on the 2023-11-27 11:37:03 by krusty krusty

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