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megademo 8 by Kefrens
screenshot added by z5 on 2002-02-06 22:50:56
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release date : february 1990
release party : Kefrens and Dexion Party 1990
compo : amiga demo
ranked : 1st
  • 60
  • 5
  • 2
popularity : 66%
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  • 0.87
  • 1
alltime top: #1543
added on the 2002-02-06 22:50:56 by z5 z5

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Damn, my screenshot is a bit fucked up :( Anyway, second file is at ftp://ftp.amigascne.org/pub/amiga/groups/k/kefrens/kefrens-megademoviii-b.dms.

A classic demo. Fantastic parts amongst some more average parts.
rulez added on the 2002-02-06 22:52:51 by z5 z5
RAHHHHHH, lovely !!!
i looooove the music of the loader !!!

you can see other screenshots here, and dl the music too ! (ADF are on this page too)

perhaps one of the first demo i saw on Amiga, and lots of hours to read the scroll texts and dream in front of my tv big screen!!!!!!!
rulez added on the 2002-02-18 15:27:25 by Zone (leZone) Zone (leZone)
HISTORICAL SITE

On February the 18th, 2002, Zone surpassed PigPen as top glöpper.
added on the 2002-02-18 19:55:46 by bigcheese bigcheese
massive prod !!! :) Probably THE demo that made me hooked to the demoscene back in the early nineties!
rulez added on the 2003-05-26 21:40:43 by hardfire hardfire
haven't seen this since ages .. tho i remember the nice usage of st-xx samples =)
added on the 2003-07-24 18:09:30 by dalezr dalezr
What, I haven't commented this yet? Extremely great demo, especially the parts by Metallion, Promax and Icronite/Milkshake. And by the way, contrary to popular belief there ARE 8 Kefrens Megademos. The first two were made under their old name "The Starlight Project" though..
rulez added on the 2003-07-24 22:33:53 by break break
rulez added on the 2003-12-12 11:08:55 by prm prm
I ran this one a lot of time!
Thanks break I didn't know for I&II
rulezcdc added on the 2003-12-12 11:14:07 by Buckethead Buckethead
damn good stuff!!!
rulez added on the 2003-12-12 12:33:18 by LHS LHS
I watched it so many times in the early 90's.
Maybe I should watch it once more!
rulez added on the 2004-01-10 03:10:10 by keops keops
actually i never understood why this demo was always ranked so high
the routines in this demo where quite unoptimized and already better seen in other demos before that one
added on the 2004-01-10 03:18:54 by elkmoose elkmoose
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added on the 2004-10-15 01:28:49 by keops keops
Boom!
rulez added on the 2005-01-16 08:06:29 by Steel Steel
One of the first Amiga demos I saw. Yes!
rulez added on the 2005-01-20 11:37:25 by sasq sasq
I loved the tune by Nightlight in the Kill Victor demo on Disk 2... What no disk 2? OK Have posted a url to fix me, beautiful.
rulez added on the 2005-05-03 11:34:47 by rio702 rio702
Love, love,love for Megademo 8!

A Legend.
rulez added on the 2005-05-26 00:45:22 by orb orb
dirt Nightlight's mod
(btw I just discovered he made the "don't go" module too :))
A classic!
rulez added on the 2005-11-02 18:43:49 by Cj Cj
8!
rulez added on the 2005-12-15 09:44:05 by ALiEN^bf ALiEN^bf
absolutely kickass!
rulez added on the 2005-12-15 09:59:52 by keito keito
Top notch stuff from the holy Kefren!
rulez added on the 2005-12-22 11:38:47 by Serpent Serpent
Quote:
actually i never understood why this demo was always ranked so high
the routines in this demo where quite unoptimized and already better seen in other demos before that one


tmb: Promax's 3D kicked ass back then, I remember we liked it so much that it even decided Starlion to start working seriously on our 3D routs for months on Atari.

Moreover the demo was just ubercool imo (along with some of its mods) ;)
added on the 2006-06-17 23:14:33 by keops keops
Rocks.
rulez added on the 2006-10-02 21:06:15 by gentleman gentleman
A legendary megademo. Promax's 3D was just totally amazing back then.
rulez added on the 2006-11-05 12:47:03 by micdune micdune
One of my favorite on this platform
rulez added on the 2007-01-05 21:35:43 by Pulsar Pulsar
SAUCE: Interactvity(!), the music to the Roller demo (mod.fletch), ultrawhack scrollers and best use of sprite snakes evah!!

SHITZ: ugly art, but at least better than ****

VERDICT:
(music kicks ass and topples dominoes)
rulez added on the 2007-06-30 07:48:48 by Momo Vampire Momo Vampire
my fav kefrens megademo
rulez added on the 2007-06-30 12:17:07 by cyberpingui cyberpingui
Some very nice parts accompanied by some ugly/average parts. And the 3d routines were pretty fast for that time. I wonder how TMB found out that the code is unoptimized... Anyway, thumb goes up. :)
rulez added on the 2007-06-30 13:07:32 by StingRay StingRay
not perfect but still a good classic one
rulez added on the 2007-07-20 08:57:07 by RA RA
Another classic.
rulez added on the 2008-01-12 02:12:33 by Maissi Maissi
ruuuuulez :D
rulez added on the 2008-03-28 10:07:03 by Premium Premium
to die for and i remember back in the day when i loaded the beast part, blew me off my chair lol kefrens was (and still is) one of my alltime favorite groups, both the old and new kefrens
rulez added on the 2008-09-27 11:49:53 by extralife extralife
wow!
rulez added on the 2008-09-27 13:13:04 by chromag chromag
Sorry, but I can't see anything special here, and to me, the demos are quite boring.
sucks added on the 2009-02-24 16:05:28 by Saga Musix Saga Musix
They made a gazillion mega demos, and everyone of them is good!
rulez added on the 2009-02-24 16:14:22 by fxmj4598fj4598fj fxmj4598fj4598fj
got kefrensbars and all
rulez added on the 2009-02-24 16:37:40 by cruzer cruzer
Top quality soundtrack, still totally enjoyable.
rulez added on the 2009-06-05 23:27:00 by 4mat 4mat
Promax!!
rulez added on the 2010-02-25 02:55:54 by zoolum zoolum
Gotta thumb this one - classic stuff.
rulez added on the 2010-02-25 08:18:19 by pmc pmc
Kefrens !
rulez added on the 2010-02-25 15:56:45 by lsl lsl
yes
rulez added on the 2010-09-21 00:11:53 by seppjo seppjo
Hey where's my vote. Absolutely one of the best ever.
rulez added on the 2010-12-07 18:37:44 by leGend leGend
Megademo 7 was really good, Megademo 8 is a total masterpiece ! A lot of good demo inside it (And Kill victor from Promax wow... It was the first time I see overscan fullscreen full framerate flat 3D)

If you need to see only one demo from 1990 you can watch this one because it contains mostly all classics fx from that time !
rulez added on the 2010-12-07 19:55:40 by skp skp
Yeaaah !
rulez added on the 2011-04-09 00:14:03 by Adoru Adoru
KEFRENS <3
rulez added on the 2011-12-11 23:10:46 by rez rez
Promax' code was fantastic. i remember copying his linedraw to fix the line length issue, and I think I kept using it for years. Also, at the party this was released, (and my first party ever) I officially became a member of Kefrens, but after 30 minutes they changed their mind and didn't let me in after all (I think because I wanted to finish my other demo for Static Bytes, I'm not sure). Ah, fun times.
rulez added on the 2012-06-29 07:51:10 by Hannibal Hannibal
Metallion !!!
rulez added on the 2014-04-27 15:32:54 by Black Dragon Black Dragon
That is an amazing tune
rulez added on the 2014-09-28 02:11:40 by scanjam scanjam
First glenz, Seven Sins-beating convex spaceships, and Harold Faltermeyer music... what more could you want?? Kefrens had made some nice demos before, and if their previous megademos weren't top notch, this megademo now placed them firmly in the top league :)
rulez added on the 2014-09-28 04:44:39 by Photon Photon
yep, some good stuff in this one.
rulez added on the 2015-02-27 10:48:35 by bonefish bonefish
That converted me to a Kefrens fanboy back in the day...
rulez added on the 2015-03-10 19:08:43 by Kylearan Kylearan
Contains lots of classic stuff, particularly Nightlight's Dirt song http://modarchive.org/module.php?38520
rulez added on the 2015-03-10 21:12:46 by yzi yzi
video is just perfect to burn on a cd
rulez added on the 2016-06-10 17:29:02 by 1in10 1in10
Trying to let the fact sink in that this is called "Megademo 8"...
sucks added on the 2017-05-25 12:20:48 by noby noby
Just as a sidenote, this demo has a few second long cameo in the documentary Shirkers. :)
added on the 2018-12-02 16:15:36 by Gargaj Gargaj
pic or it didnt happen
added on the 2018-12-02 16:37:49 by Flashira Flashira
Just watch it yourself, it's on Netflix.
added on the 2018-12-02 16:43:16 by Gargaj Gargaj
Had this demo on a disk back in the time and i was always fascinated from two songs in the demo. The intro-tune and the tune in the "Walkmann" part from "Metallion". Great memories, great demo !!!
rulez added on the 2019-04-03 23:25:08 by AW87 AW87
I wish I could thumb this up twice. Haters gonna lame <3
added on the 2019-04-03 23:39:35 by break break
One of the best megademo, few comments, the most underrated classic on pouet to my eyes =]
Classic!
rulez added on the 2019-11-19 21:17:14 by Mystra Mystra
Nice
rulez added on the 2020-09-19 07:50:59 by ok3anos ok3anos
Nice long one hour very 90s megademo coded at a Copyparty in Denmark
rulez added on the 2020-10-05 12:55:51 by Queen_Luna Queen_Luna
"Kill Victor" by the legendary Promax is my favorite part of the
Megademo. The blue cube and the green space ship - awesome! And
indeed, the objects were really big and impressive for that time. It
really motivated and pushed me into writing my first own filled 3D routine.
The music by Nightlight is great, too. The drums and the bass are very
well arranged and are groovin' like hell! Moreover, the simple and
catchy melody conveys a kind of easiness and is leaving enough room
for the main actor - namely the BIG vectors. Lovely!

By the way, what was so special (see comment of Hannibal) about the
line drawing routine?
rulez added on the 2021-03-27 13:09:38 by ROG_VF ROG_VF
Quote:
By the way, what was so special (see comment of Hannibal) about the
line drawing routine?


It worked :D I think nearly everyone was using Promax's liendraw routine at some stage in the early 90's. It might even have been spread/published (wither officially or unofficially)
added on the 2021-03-27 13:23:00 by DanLemon DanLemon
thumby
rulez added on the 2021-03-27 13:23:12 by DanLemon DanLemon
Some great tunes here, and amazing routines as for 1990!!!

Ain't this the first glenz routine (Transformer part by Promax) written and published on the Amiga, ever?
rulez added on the 2021-03-27 15:34:40 by sim sim
Who composed the music from "Rotate" part? One of my favorite tune since I heard in in 1991 in .STM format.
rulez added on the 2021-07-29 13:53:19 by Manwe Manwe
motivational thumb
rulez added on the 2021-07-29 18:55:01 by SiR SiR
Thank you, Buckethead!
added on the 2021-08-04 17:49:57 by Manwe Manwe
Well the music is composed by Harold Faltermeyer, but remake is by Nightlight :)
added on the 2021-08-04 18:28:24 by Serpent Serpent
I forgot something.
rulez added on the 2021-10-05 20:55:35 by hitchhikr hitchhikr
Dirt!
rulez added on the 2022-03-13 16:11:33 by faraday faraday
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rulez added on the 2022-12-26 01:17:00 by mccnex mccnex
I think I prefer their Megademo 7 more ;) But this is one is also superb.
rulez added on the 2023-12-01 16:13:46 by zbrozo zbrozo

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