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Transhuman / Pachinkoland by The Electronic Knights
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release date : april 2022
release party : Gerp 2022
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Next level!! Yet to see properly, only saw the live compo recording
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 02:02:56 by DanLemon DanLemon
Amazing production in all departments. If I had walked in mid-demo without knowing what it was, I’d have assumed AGA and 030. Looks great, sounds great - both on the bigscreen and on my 1084. (Thanks for the disk!)
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 02:03:10 by grip grip
dope af. killer 1st track, 2nd great too.
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 02:56:22 by kimi kardashian kimi kardashian
Massive!
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 03:37:18 by gaspode gaspode
Badass! Crashing under WinUAE after the plasma part for me... and I'm 250km away from my real Amiga :(
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 05:20:47 by Rastertail Rastertail
Same as grip but it surely is OCS. Music isn't maybe my cup of completely but well done and fits. Have to watch more times to see if there's some inner meanings behind some moments.
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 05:22:29 by Serpent Serpent
It looks like the adf isnt done properly , taking in account the 80+ tracks this demo is using..

Live version here in the mean time:

https://youtu.be/cUORGtCkoJ8

Great new innovating ocs demo! Really like it!
(But… Bad release management imho ;)
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 06:24:17 by magic magic
Awesome 3D-effects, and nice music
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 06:52:10 by Queen_Luna Queen_Luna
What kind of sorcery is this?
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 08:04:46 by Daddy Freddy Daddy Freddy
Me la pone como el pescuezo un cantaor. Truly amazing.
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 08:18:07 by Skynet Skynet
What a great production! Worth waiting for. Excellent (hires) graphics, pumping music, fabulous design, much better pacing than e.g. Hologon, and very clever combination of move-table effects with grading bitmaps -- and of course, excellent use of the Amiga hardware capabilities (sprites on the hires gfx, turning the audio filter on/off, copper tricks including dynamic hires etc.). The new voxel landscape is fantastic.
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 08:23:06 by platon42 platon42
Great stuff before Disk error track 80 atleast. Probably would anyway need an .ipf/.hfe image because i don't think standard adf supports >80 trax
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 08:25:38 by hot multimedia hot multimedia
Pure OCS magic! TEK sets the new standard to level: "Impossible" :) Great code, gfx, msx and design. There is no limit for TEK!
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 08:38:36 by sachy sachy
Yes yes yes yes!
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 08:55:46 by nerve nerve
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 08:57:13 by mop mop
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Great stuff before Disk error track 80 atleast. Probably would anyway need an .ipf/.hfe image because i don't think standard adf supports >80 trax


most probably there's some sort of copy protection. hoping & waiting for an actual floppy to turn up in the mailbox
added on the 2022-04-06 08:59:28 by mop mop
Mindblowing!
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 09:37:50 by vedder-ins vedder-ins
Top-grade modern OCS demo! Too bad I am a few kilometers away from my A500 and I used an emulator to see just a part of this amazing show.

And, yes, that ADF image seems to be defective... But was that on purpose, you tricky cybernetic creatures?
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 09:38:55 by ham ham
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most probably there's some sort of copy protection. hoping & waiting for an actual floppy to turn up in the mailbox


If it's just for copy protection, maybe a custom sector format would better idea than just stuffing more tracks to a disk :)
next level in all departments.
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 10:19:40 by teo teo
Absolutely massive!
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 10:32:17 by booger booger
Impressive work.
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 10:35:12 by Ramon B5 Ramon B5
This is an absolutely awesome piece of work.
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 11:07:39 by Korvkiosken Korvkiosken
Perfect!
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 11:13:48 by fyrex fyrex
nice
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 11:41:25 by Blast! Blast!
This was some really impressive work.
An OCS demo that looks more like an AGA demo.
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 11:48:14 by Scali Scali
Great work and design! (Aside from that horrible 1bit dither-fest behind the pixel tunnel ofcourse). Congrats on another great OCS Demo
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 11:53:24 by superogue superogue
The disk image dated today is incomplete and will freeze in an emulator (and very likely in an Amiga). I chalked up the freeze to emulation, but apparently it requires cracking to be preserved.
added on the 2022-04-06 12:22:53 by Photon Photon
Great stuff! Dig the spheres in the torus.

Ignoring the mail-swapping idea and instead posting an untested broken ADF is neither very nice nor competent, though.
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 12:27:30 by hfr hfr
Incredible
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 13:04:14 by xeron xeron
couldn't believe it's a500
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 13:44:44 by gorgh gorgh
SICK. ACE.
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 14:31:52 by leGend leGend
When I thought that previous demo raised the bar enough... Just WOW! <3
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 15:54:12 by jammer jammer
Wow guys, outstanding production!
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 16:08:02 by haywood haywood
Cool demo
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 16:44:25 by bitl bitl
Hope a clean pdf is coming soon! Really want to see this in full!
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 17:12:12 by Jobbo Jobbo
Im waiting to see if a disk arrives sooon :D Looks tasty :D
added on the 2022-04-06 17:33:38 by kRiZ^cMz kRiZ^cMz
Awesome work Bitfat, Nero, Krill, Okeanos - I enjoyed the Show.
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 19:10:13 by critikill critikill
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Great stuff! Dig the spheres in the torus.

Ignoring the mail-swapping idea and instead posting an untested broken ADF is neither very nice nor competent, though.

I'm nice, unlike you. I'm so competent that I know copy-protected Amiga demos are unheard of, unlike you who by inverted logic claim it should be assumed from just being given a disk. It's more common to have demos working on a real Amiga glitch in emu, such as when I tested it. I've already asked to remove the download.
added on the 2022-04-06 19:13:23 by Photon Photon
This is top notch stuff indeed!
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 19:47:24 by java java
Can someone PLEASE link to a working adf or exe, preferably on Scene.org?? The current link is absolutely USELESS!
added on the 2022-04-06 19:48:08 by Foebane72 Foebane72
Superb like all TEK productions!!!
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 20:10:49 by decruncher decruncher
Uber Cool! jaw-dropping stuff!
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 20:19:23 by spiryt spiryt
well I don't get why I shouldn't be able to watch this on my real Amiga, just because I'm using a gotek drive, but whatever. If one doesn't like their products to be watched, so be it.
added on the 2022-04-06 21:05:20 by v3nom v3nom
BREAKING! Sceners all over Europe are waiting every day for the mailman, as if it's 1990....
added on the 2022-04-06 21:14:44 by mop mop
video plz
added on the 2022-04-06 21:24:16 by SiR SiR
Awesome!
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 21:43:20 by zeebr zeebr
Another great demo from you guys reinvigorating the OCS scene ! Thanks !
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 22:14:09 by Fab Fab
Yet another demo for A500 that looks stylish and absolutely very modern. Love it!!
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 22:54:29 by Sir_Lucas Sir_Lucas
Great work! Very stylish and polished.
rulez added on the 2022-04-06 23:58:56 by prowler prowler
Absolutely amazing job!
rulez added on the 2022-04-07 02:19:30 by venex venex
Someone tap me up when it arrives on a BBS
added on the 2022-04-07 02:22:02 by djh0ffman djh0ffman
Photon sharing fuckings to 99% of modern demos that for common folks are pretty enjoyable and highlighting here he’s nice is a fucking laughter. Speaking so EON still wins. Back to this prod. I don’t know. Tech is definitively there, but we know bifat’s capabilities already. Nerdy ideas like snail swapping prods and copy protection are enjoyable to few and totally non-important and quickly forgotten to most. Fact is this prod doesn’t work in the environment most people watch amiga demos outside YT should be considered. There are many new interesting effects put randomly here, i miss coherent design that glues them together and I’m personally bored to see TEK signature reflections on objects in yet another prod. It’s Ok, i just expected more perhaps..
added on the 2022-04-07 08:39:25 by hollowone hollowone
LINK IS STILL BROKEN!
added on the 2022-04-07 10:21:33 by Foebane72 Foebane72
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LINK IS STILL BROKEN!


Have you read any of the comments above ??? The demo is protected on a non standard disk ( >80 tracks ) and can't be ADF'd.
added on the 2022-04-07 12:08:38 by DanLemon DanLemon
"amiga scene cannot into the amiga equivalent of 40-track d64, so lame :D"
rulez added on the 2022-04-07 12:28:10 by groepaz groepaz
Great demo in all departments, congrats!
Now about the drama, this demo belongs to TEK, they spread it the way they want, and I'm happy to have to wait. The longing is part of the experience, just like it used to be, and I must say I like TEK's breaking unspoken rules and expectations.
rulez added on the 2022-04-07 12:35:02 by Soundy Soundy
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The demo is protected on a non standard disk ( >80 tracks ) and can't be ADF'd.


However, it could be IPF'd.

Hey, it could also be sold or licensed as commercial software! ;]
That's what these anti-copy mechanisms generally are for. Right?
added on the 2022-04-07 12:36:35 by ham ham
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can't be ADF'd

Are you sure?
added on the 2022-04-07 13:01:16 by groepaz groepaz
oh groepaz, would you plz stfu at least until scoopex provided a crack or we have sent all disks :)
mildly entertaining demo mainly consisting of recycling code and oozing arrogance, weak piggy.
added on the 2022-04-07 13:04:43 by bifat bifat
No worries :) Thumbs up for getting them to expose their skills :)
added on the 2022-04-07 13:08:54 by groepaz groepaz
Yet again an A500 masterpiece from TEK featuring awesomeness in all departments. Hope there will be more groups trying to push the boundaries of the A500 like this in the future.

And about the spreading of the release… The demo is out there and if you know someone who’s got a copy of it on disk it can easily be copied. Just start the demo and follow the instructions. It can be argued that this might not be the most effective way to spread a release in public, but spread in public it is :)
rulez added on the 2022-04-07 13:10:09 by malmix malmix
A resounding YES to funky disk formats and protections on demos - a sadly waning craft and - even better - deliciously futile, with the added bonus of giving something for old school crackers to get their teeth into.

On the demo itself - <3 <3 <3
rulez added on the 2022-04-07 15:14:20 by Tom Tom
Got the disk today. Superb prod imho with the best TEK soundtrack so far. Keep up the spirit. Thank you!
rulez added on the 2022-04-07 15:49:06 by Virgill Virgill
Looks and sounds absolutely fabulous. All this on a plain A500+512k. Hats off!
rulez added on the 2022-04-07 15:57:26 by __sam__ __sam__
extraordinary ! love it :) please do more ! :D
rulez added on the 2022-04-07 16:27:34 by yogib33r yogib33r
Great as always from TEK.
The first part I kind of seen before but the last part is very, very nice.
Music is great too. Thanks.
rulez added on the 2022-04-07 18:14:37 by nikosidis nikosidis
nice, would have deserved more work on the transitions and coherence on the suite of effects, seeing how awesome the said effects are. good work.
rulez added on the 2022-04-07 18:27:29 by iks iks
This delivered on all levels. Demoscene FOMO vibe increasing....dinner is not ready yet, you'll just have to wait.
rulez added on the 2022-04-07 18:54:25 by tFt tFt
I ran this on WinUAE 4.9.0, it ran fine until the hoodie with the plasma, then flickered like mad and then froze. But I loved the effects and music until that point, and look forward to seeing perhaps a final version.
rulez added on the 2022-04-07 19:06:15 by Foebane72 Foebane72
Incredible work guys and I very much enjoyed the inventive design style. Well done!!
rulez added on the 2022-04-07 19:15:16 by Motion Motion
A fucking great demo, but why the hell do you exclude all emulator users? We have to watch that glitchy live video instead, which really sucks. You cannot convince people to buy the original software. That tried many other people before. I don't understand that strange concept.
rulez added on the 2022-04-07 19:35:21 by ghandy ghandy
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The demo is protected on a non standard disk ( >80 tracks ) and can't be ADF'd.

There's extended ADF, which supports raw MFM and additional tracks. Not sure if there are any easy to use tools available though.
added on the 2022-04-07 20:30:03 by absence absence
Nice one. A500!
rulez added on the 2022-04-07 20:40:35 by adkd adkd
Got my disk to day. Teo brought it over from Gerp. Thanks again buddy.

What a great demo. And what treat it is to pop the disk into an Amiga and have the demo load. Needless to say that i would be raving if this whole concept really goes as far as someone providing a cracked ADF.

The demo itself is awesome. Although i have the strong feeling i have seen some of the effects before. Nero's graphics are once again astonishing. The music ties everything nicely together.
rulez added on the 2022-04-07 20:46:15 by xxx xxx
Dark but glossy, atmospheric. I saw some recycling but in a good manner. Seems I'll have to log in a BBS soonish just like hoffman.
rulez added on the 2022-04-07 21:36:29 by dirtie dirtie
Amazing!
rulez added on the 2022-04-07 21:41:08 by PauloFalcao PauloFalcao
as told to bifat few times during the party, killer demo!

effects, graphics, style, everything. even soundtrack is lights ahead of hologon's tune. progress in every direction.
rulez added on the 2022-04-07 21:58:13 by bonefish bonefish
Amazing!
rulez added on the 2022-04-07 23:31:02 by estrayk estrayk
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oh groepaz, would you plz stfu at least until scoopex provided a crack or we have sent all disks :)
mildly entertaining demo mainly consisting of recycling code and oozing arrogance, weak piggy.

video plz kthx
added on the 2022-04-07 23:43:39 by SiR SiR
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oh groepaz, would you plz stfu at least until scoopex provided a crack or we have sent all disks :)
mildly entertaining demo mainly consisting of recycling code and oozing arrogance, weak piggy.

Mm, you tricked me there. You made sure I got a disk on the party and you didn't say or indicate on the disk that it was different from e.g. Superspreader or Hologon.

I waited a few days for you to get home and upload and record, and then I tried and failed to what I thought was an emu glitch, so I uploaded it here. That was the wrong move. This is not a dedicated preservation site, and now scene.org is hosting a different file, also not working, which is as strange as this whole affair.

Weekend approaches, I'll have a look. My first guess from this was no cracking needed and extend adf by 1 track.
added on the 2022-04-08 01:05:17 by Photon Photon
We didn't trick anybody into uploading anything anywhere untested.
We would have uploaded it ourselves, if we have had the intention to.
Have you received my mail? I outlined more options there.
added on the 2022-04-08 01:11:29 by bifat bifat
@bifat a little notification when the demo started would have been at his place imho.. (like in the old days when demos started with “this demo cant be sold by PD companies”) only now than ofcoz about the amount of tracks and it cant be copied to a working adf in a standard way.. anno domini 2022 u knew people would try to make an ADF for digital download so a notification would have helped alot to overcome what now happened here at pouet.. (just my 2 cents..)
added on the 2022-04-08 06:31:00 by magic magic
If you don’t have an Amiga, maybe a friend does? If your floppy drive is broken, maybe someone at an upcoming demo party has a working one in their Amiga? Is there an Amiga/retro computer user group in your area that you haven’t joined for some reason? There are many ways to see this demo that doesn’t involve ADF files. I’ll be at Syntax Society’s easter party in a week and Gubbdata later this summer. Let’s watch it together! And some more demos after that, and maybe share a beverage and then some more demos.

A single Amiga demo may perhaps not be worth a long journey, but friendship is. What a nice sentiment.
added on the 2022-04-08 07:29:28 by grip grip
Absolutely brilliant!!!
rulez added on the 2022-04-08 07:42:37 by Axi0maT Axi0maT
A500 or die!!
rulez added on the 2022-04-08 08:11:07 by sINk sINk
Perfect demo!

Waiting for some evil crackers to make it available for the rest of the Amiga users aswell :D

I think I will make a copy of the master disk when I meet the rest of the Gerp organisers next time ;)
added on the 2022-04-08 08:46:11 by d vibe d vibe
Forgot the thumb!
rulez added on the 2022-04-08 08:46:25 by d vibe d vibe
Very happy to see all this amazing things happening on the A500!!! Hope we can see this thru our goteks soon... Excellent DEMO!!!
rulez added on the 2022-04-08 11:18:49 by AMB AMB
It works from external drives and almost certainly from Gotek. If Gotek is worth its money, it should be possible that the demo can copy itself from floppy to Gotek or the other way round.
added on the 2022-04-08 11:43:09 by bifat bifat
@bifat i copied with your copy programme from floppy to gotek but the demo than crashes booting from gotek after 2/3 of the demo. (track 80 i presume is the cause)
added on the 2022-04-08 12:23:12 by magic magic
Gotek is not just an ADF player. You can have all sorts of formats on them. Sorry for I can't give support, I've ditched my Gotek in 2017 or so.
added on the 2022-04-08 12:28:50 by bifat bifat
Great effects but no sync, it's sad. I like the graphics like logos but not those "scan people gfx" put above the effects without any sense, like you have in 90 years demos. The musics are cool but like i've said, it's sad to not have sync with effects and music. The demo looks for me like a bit unfinished. Waiting the final prod, if there is one 😊
It should work fine with HxC internal format. Goteks can use HxC firmware.
added on the 2022-04-08 13:20:35 by Crumb Crumb
As someone who have a rather large collection of old machines, and really likes to run things on the real thing, I find it a bit annoying that I can't run this.
Since I like to test run my own stuff during development on my Amiga 500, I have swapped the internal floppy with a Gotek drive. Runs my own stuff and just about every non-Tek demo just fine.

If the reason for the special disk format is somehow related to the actual demo, ie. if it fits more data than usual on the disk, or loads quicker or whatever, then sure, no problem.
But if the reason is some stubborn "everyone should run this from a real disk just because I say so", well, then I can't really agree with that.
added on the 2022-04-08 13:33:41 by Sdw Sdw
Where can I buy the floppy?
added on the 2022-04-08 13:50:01 by nikosidis nikosidis
WHDLoad version for A500mini NAAAOOOW :P
In these days of Tiktok attention span fuckery this is a good thing....even for us old farts......to have to work for the prize.
But hoping for a WHDLoad version at some point ;)
added on the 2022-04-08 14:08:26 by tFt tFt
Sdw: It's only a matter of asking the right questions, like: Scoopex, where is the promised crack? Or TEK, why I don't have a disk yet?
From an artistic standpoint I doesn't matter in the slightest if we're doing this for technical reasons. The demoscene is artistically underdeveloped, so we can get away with concepts concocted by Captain Obvious. :-)
Nikosidis: Your disk is on the way. :-)
added on the 2022-04-08 14:14:54 by bifat bifat
Someone please send me a disk. kthxbye.
added on the 2022-04-08 14:40:46 by arm1n arm1n
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Sdw: It's only a matter of asking the right questions, like: Scoopex, where is the promised crack? Or TEK, why I don't have a disk yet?
From an artistic standpoint I doesn't matter in the slightest if we're doing this for technical reasons. The demoscene is artistically underdeveloped, so we can get away with concepts concocted by Captain Obvious. :-)
Nikosidis: Your disk is on the way. :-)


I love you guys :D
So cool it is only for floppy and the service you are doing.
I will send you a package with 20 floppy disks if you like?
added on the 2022-04-08 15:24:47 by nikosidis nikosidis
The demo is pretty solid, amazing how someone can achieve all this on a standard A500! But the copy protection thing, that makes the demo run only from specific floppies is a terribly wrong move imho. A final that removes all this copy protection crap would be most welcome. :)
added on the 2022-04-08 15:30:02 by Defiance Defiance
The current ADF on the "download" link is "kaputt", according to the disk copy tool (F1). So how does one get a valid ADF of the demo, and what form is it in? An actual ADF file, or a floppy disk? I would like one, if possible, please.
added on the 2022-04-08 18:24:41 by Foebane72 Foebane72
The floppy release comes with a nice and glossy disk label. Why would you want to miss that out? Also, a demo that comes with an integrated copy program, a program to duplicate it, cannot be called to have a "copy protection", can it?
added on the 2022-04-08 18:35:09 by platon42 platon42
Foebane72: You can send a mail to bifat ett neoscientists piste org and request one. I've run out of disk labels today after handing out / sending 130 disks, so please let me know if you want to wait for one with sticker or if it's ok to get a unlabelled disk.
added on the 2022-04-08 18:36:28 by bifat bifat
@Platon42, u commented on JP#19.. Better boot it again and read my release management article =)
added on the 2022-04-08 18:47:32 by magic magic
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Foebane72: You can send a mail to bifat ett neoscientists piste org and request one. I've run out of disk labels today after handing out / sending 130 disks, so please let me know if you want to wait for one with sticker or if it's ok to get a unlabelled disk.


That implies a real Amiga. I don't have a real Amiga, haven't had once since 1995. Are you saying that you're denying this demo to emulator users? Not everyone can afford or has space for real hardware.
added on the 2022-04-08 19:00:15 by Foebane72 Foebane72
@Foebane72: wtf? Bifat can do whatever he likes. He is under no obligation to provide anything to you.
added on the 2022-04-08 19:39:00 by arm1n arm1n
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@Foebane72: wtf? Bifat can do whatever he likes. He is under no obligation to provide anything to you.


What's with the sudden copy protection, when 99% of Amiga demos have never needed any? It's tantamount to DRM!
added on the 2022-04-08 19:40:54 by Foebane72 Foebane72
Great Demo. Thanks for the Disk. For the crack. There has to be a cracktro before the demo :-)
rulez added on the 2022-04-08 19:42:36 by Emufr3ak Emufr3ak
It doesn't matter what bifat does, spike. Eventually, the talented cracking scene will make the demo Transhuman available to all. It would just be a shame that you lot had to crack it against one of your own.

PS And why is it called by two names?
added on the 2022-04-08 19:50:58 by Foebane72 Foebane72
Where can I send my disk?
rulez added on the 2022-04-08 20:02:05 by sjaak sjaak
A nice idea, against the "i want to collect all and everything" manie. Oh, where is my disk? Bifat.
rulez added on the 2022-04-08 20:09:59 by zegzeg zegzeg
@Foebane72: I think the main Idea behind this is to delay online delivery a bit to give disk trading a change. I like this concept
added on the 2022-04-08 20:28:45 by Emufr3ak Emufr3ak
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@Foebane72: I think the main Idea behind this is to delay online delivery a bit to give disk trading a change. I like this concept


I sure hope so, and I don't mind that at all. Well, it's up to scene members to try new things, after all :)
added on the 2022-04-08 20:36:17 by Foebane72 Foebane72
zegzeg: It hasn't arrived yet? I think it would've been due today.
Emufr3ak: You got it 100%. Only in this case we were preempted by Scoopex. We didn't even start thinking about options for internet distribution. Monday I returned home, Tuesday I slept, Wed-Fri I sent disks.
added on the 2022-04-08 20:36:28 by bifat bifat
Bifat: how should i sleep now? ... waiting for the post man..
added on the 2022-04-08 20:44:36 by zegzeg zegzeg
I fail to see why one should be upset about the copy protection. I think it's hilarious, and a good reference to the roots of the scene 😁
added on the 2022-04-08 20:49:21 by d vibe d vibe
Got it, thanks!
rulez added on the 2022-04-08 21:12:21 by noname noname
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zegzeg: It hasn't arrived yet? I think it would've been due today.
Emufr3ak: You got it 100%. Only in this case we were preempted by Scoopex. We didn't even start thinking about options for internet distribution. Monday I returned home, Tuesday I slept, Wed-Fri I sent disks.
video plz
added on the 2022-04-08 22:42:45 by SiR SiR
Bifat: I understand that the main point was to delay online distribution, but I'm curious if you gained much disk space? It would be interesting to take the concept further, filling the disk with long tracks or something!
added on the 2022-04-09 00:49:09 by absence absence
@Absence: We had originally employed a custom disk format, which would pack more than 1mb on disk. But after exchanging one music and experimenting on newer compression methods late in the process, the demo became much smaller, and in the last days we were constantly scraping on 80 tracks standard ADF. We came across we shouldn't limit the access just for the sake of it, but only for technical or aesthetical reasons. A late change in one transition that we deemed necessary pushed it over 901120 bytes again, which wasn't unwelcome as I like to corrupt planning in a situationist manner.
added on the 2022-04-09 02:34:39 by bifat bifat
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more than 1mb on disk

if you had actually pulled that off you might have impressed some atari folks even, as it stands we just have to giggle a bit at the apparent incompetence of amiga disk imaging tools (and their users obviously). but for real now, even if you could find a drive that'll let you write that amount of data it's very hard to believe you could find any floppies that'd be able to hold said data. so calling bullshit on that claim until you back it up :)
added on the 2022-04-09 08:36:57 by havoc havoc
In parts what Foebane72 wrote. Why? First thought was: It is an April
fool, isn't it? But I am not upset or peeved and I do not need a disk
as "trophy" or an runable adf as long as a video is provided. But
please, add an official video, i.e. one in a better quality since the
great music really deserves that.
Some words about the tech details for the man in the street would
be welcome as well.
Already liked Hologon but this one here isFat! More thoughts and
comments from my side are available on disk (giggling).
And where did I see that hydrogen fusion chamber before?
rulez added on the 2022-04-09 10:41:53 by ROG_VF ROG_VF
I guess you understand that what being done here make this demo extra special for everyone that collect and care about real hardware.
At some point emulation users etc. will get the cracked version.
You just have to wait :D
Is it not funny?
Emulation and using Amiga in modern times is supposed to be so fast and easy :P
added on the 2022-04-09 10:53:07 by nikosidis nikosidis
@nikosidis just imagine if no one cracks it and the demo is only available on diskette just for sceners
added on the 2022-04-09 10:58:14 by mop mop
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will get the cracked version.


hopefully with a decent cracktro that lives up to the prod itself.
oh no - the dreaded "more than 80" tracks copy protection. also what havoc said. And thumb up for the demo
rulez added on the 2022-04-09 11:13:06 by insane insane
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Emulation and using Amiga in modern times is supposed to be so fast and easy :P


Why? All things that matter have never been easy (before and now). Anyway, they might spend more time doing that fancy cracktro than actually cracking the demo. :]

If a crack doesn't appear after Revision, I'll ask for a disk.
added on the 2022-04-09 11:21:06 by ham ham
I do like the idea of an edition for collectors of real floppy disks only.
And the team here is just amazing.

But I need to ask what the ADF drama is about ?
And is it true that the digital download breaks the software emulation ?

Or maybe it is just me that I have misunderstood the whole thing here.
added on the 2022-04-09 11:52:14 by AlienTech AlienTech
Well done
rulez added on the 2022-04-09 11:55:26 by Frequent Frequent
@AlienTech / 2022-04-09 11:52:14
Quote:
But I need to ask what the ADF drama is about ?


Thanks, DRAMA was the word I was looking for (giggling again).
added on the 2022-04-09 12:22:01 by ROG_VF ROG_VF
Disk arrived this morning! Wasn't expecting this, thanks @bifat :)
added on the 2022-04-09 13:53:39 by DanLemon DanLemon
I can hardly imagine anything remotely as important as impressing Atari people. :-) So here's the internet release: http://www.neoscientists.org/downloads/writetranshuman

Insert disk in df0: and run executable to install 74 tracks custom format version.
Among the benefits: Loading tends to be faster (so relaxing possible timing issues), better checksums, also spares some weaker tracks next to the spindle. Would be nice if borken download links could be replaced.
added on the 2022-04-09 14:42:24 by bifat bifat
Quote:
...the great music really deserves that.

Demo music is awesome.I ripping track2 from demo and playing in Protracker
https://is.gd/D82Dv6
added on the 2022-04-09 14:57:36 by lera lera
The internet release works fine with UAE if you create a Custom Disk to write the demo to, and note a standard disk.
(In WinUAE: Floppy drives -> Create Custom Disk -> Save -> Insert ADF-file into DF0: and then start the emulator and start the executable Bifat provided, which will write the data to the ADF). Reboot your "Amiga" and enjoy.
added on the 2022-04-09 17:31:19 by d vibe d vibe
note = not

(When will we get an edit function in Pouet? :D)
added on the 2022-04-09 17:31:56 by d vibe d vibe
Amazing !!!
rulez added on the 2022-04-09 18:00:29 by siwmad siwmad
Now I've seen the whole demo, excellent work! :)
added on the 2022-04-09 18:22:18 by Foebane72 Foebane72
Solid prod for Gerp and worked well on the bigscreen! Familiar effects return, but again with refinement. The "Comanche" part is new, and returns at the end with some control of path speed and lookaround. I think the water/mountain colored version looks the best, even though that's maybe expected and normal.

I grumble a bit at the scrub at the end of parts to extend them, but my takeaway was, yes, more dither and squinty time again, but there are some ideas here, towards e.g. coloring and styling that can be taken in new directions, which I liked a lot. The design and pacing is spot on.

Well done! And I've lauded running on real hardware for many years, so now that I got what I wished for (well, I also care a lot about preservation) I've swapped a few copies to friends. :)
rulez added on the 2022-04-09 19:01:52 by Photon Photon
I've heard there is a working adf file now thanks to d vibe. ;)
rulez added on the 2022-04-09 19:39:02 by Defiance Defiance
nice
rulez added on the 2022-04-09 19:53:16 by SiR SiR
Speaking of preservation, it would be nice if someone with the >80 track "party version" on floppy could read it using wwarp or something (wwarp transhuman c 0-167). Unless it contains custom tracks, the .wwp file can probably be written back to a real or emulated floppy.
added on the 2022-04-09 19:56:15 by absence absence
Fabulous - it really does feel like it's an AGA prod at times.
rulez added on the 2022-04-09 20:17:51 by Mibri Mibri
I just miss those quality gfx from Ozan
added on the 2022-04-09 20:56:41 by mop mop
Great prod, great effects, especially terrain rendering :)
rulez added on the 2022-04-09 21:02:59 by gligli gligli
YouTube upload appreciated. Don't have an Amiga so mercifully free of the disk formatting drama.

Masterful production, gorgeous lighting in places.
rulez added on the 2022-04-09 21:05:53 by CiH CiH
About the ADF file, yes it works in UAE, but you probably won't be able to make a physical disk out of on the Amiga. I've only tried it once, and it rendered track error when I tried to run it. On the other hand you've got the real thing if you want to run it on the Amiga instead ;)
added on the 2022-04-09 21:46:31 by d vibe d vibe
Oh... My...

You guys are nuts. Struggled a bit, since my main A500 has the Wicher500i card floppy would not write completely. Had to compress it, put it on a normal FFS floppy, and uncompress it on the A600 i had laying around which is more "vanilla", and write the floppy there, and run the demo there. Well worth it tho. Damn.
added on the 2022-04-09 22:05:46 by AiO AiO
excellent, big respect! and big love! :D
rulez added on the 2022-04-09 22:21:20 by elkmoose elkmoose
great demo! I really liked the terrain rendering and the torus effect. the palette and attention to detail is present in all the scenes, there is a lot of screens (if not all) that have graphics in front or behind the effect, which is not really common and reinforce the fact that I'm looking at a late 90ies PC demo... on a stock A500!

ho and the musics are really great! :)

last word is that I think it was a bold choice to release this potentially winning demo two weeks before Revision :D

did you do you that because you wanted to support the compo of a smaller but more Amiga centric party?
rulez added on the 2022-04-09 22:29:07 by rez rez
A fresh demo! TEK are pushing the limits.
rulez added on the 2022-04-09 22:51:26 by henne henne
Great stuff in all departments
rulez added on the 2022-04-09 23:18:11 by gopher gopher
indeed this looks way more AGA than OCS, nice fx and pace
and a great soundtrack by okeanos, gotta love it!
rulez added on the 2022-04-10 00:03:02 by wysiwtf wysiwtf
<3
rulez added on the 2022-04-10 05:15:16 by rp rp
Great demo!
rulez added on the 2022-04-10 08:26:24 by Mystra Mystra
yes
love the scene with the white hoodie
i don't know. it has some great scenes but somehow the music feels out of place for me with that style of visuals. oh well. oink :)
As regards Gotek and real amiga : using "writetranshuman" to write to a mounted emtpy HFE (rev 0) image works.

HFE file format is supported by FlashFloppy firmware.
(Extended ADF is not supported by FlashFloppy)
rulez added on the 2022-04-10 11:40:52 by Bruno Bruno
I'd kindly ask every youtube mugger to remove their video captures of this demo. Only authorized (implicit or explicit) are spkr and magic. Magic didn't ask, but captured the live atmosphere well.
added on the 2022-04-10 13:03:00 by bifat bifat
Great stuff continued after track 80 as well. Since eadf isn't supported by anything, here's a HFE for Gotek and IPF for FS-UAE.
FS-UAE has support for EADF images. Thanks for the IPF and HFE files, though.BB Image
added on the 2022-04-10 14:03:33 by ham ham
The official release version has been dumped from disk to raw on an Amiga using CAPS tools.

Track 80 is just AmigaDOS formatted and could have been on track 40 instead.
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After transcoding, the resulting IPF is only half the size than the version linked above.

Thanks again to Bifat for supplying the original disk via mail. It sure looks cool with that glossy label!
added on the 2022-04-10 14:45:28 by noname noname
Massive demo with a great atmosphere!
rulez added on the 2022-04-10 16:36:49 by toms toms
This is so awesome. I really love the first part. Second is also great. Seen the live video. Too bad the download link has been removed.
added on the 2022-04-10 17:01:19 by Tron5000 Tron5000
Really impressive for an OCs demo .
A better YT video here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gurCKDp3fz4
rulez added on the 2022-04-10 17:48:26 by TOUKO TOUKO
It turns out that WinUAE does support >80 tracks in plain ADF files after all. Other tools may or may not support it, but either way here's a working 912,384 bytes ADF of the party version extracted from noname's IPF.
added on the 2022-04-10 18:24:58 by absence absence
TOPLEVEL CYBERPUNK JOURNEY!
rulez added on the 2022-04-10 19:16:58 by ltk_tscc ltk_tscc
That shiny red diamond in the middle part was really beautiful. Many parts didn't seem that different from many A500 demos I've seen but perhaps it's just my lack of Amiga education. I watched the live capture on YouTube as the author intended.
rulez added on the 2022-04-10 20:01:03 by cce cce
Got the release on disk in the snailmail today, thanks :)
I have been waiting for many years now for OCS to become the new frontier. And the Electronic Knights have masterfully taken up the journey across the uncharted lands of the Amiga's Original Chip Set.

Truly, you have earned your thumb.
rulez added on the 2022-04-10 21:50:41 by FunkyM FunkyM
Have the release on disk from bifat personally. And it's so fucking amazing good!
rulez added on the 2022-04-10 21:51:58 by bodo^rab bodo^rab
@Touko

Link dont work
added on the 2022-04-11 08:39:27 by Tron5000 Tron5000
The company did take down two other captures, but so far refuses to comply with the copyright terms with this one.
added on the 2022-04-11 09:38:30 by bifat bifat
@bifat Just got the disk in the mail. Really, really cool.. Many thanks my friend!
added on the 2022-04-11 10:08:58 by booger booger
Can't load ADF on Gotek and real HW :(
added on the 2022-04-11 10:51:51 by KONEY KONEY
Koney: The Flashfloppy firmware seems to support >80 tracks, so the non-extended ADF I posted of the party version could work with Gotek?
added on the 2022-04-11 11:38:24 by absence absence
thanks Absence for the original version. works perfectly on fs-uae and
external gotek too (df1 boot and loading. even copied with xcopy to real
disk).
absence : thank you for your 912 384 bytes long ADF. It works on my gotek with Flash Floppy (on my real Amiga 500).
added on the 2022-04-11 13:44:25 by Bruno Bruno
I'll remove my eADF from my server, since there's a better one out now, to stop confusion ;)
added on the 2022-04-11 13:51:12 by d vibe d vibe
Wow wow wow, congrats !! This is so innovative & fresh !
(Running a 880 Kb ADF version on my MiSTer FPGA)
rulez added on the 2022-04-11 14:05:58 by mahenou mahenou
Fantastic! love the way there are lots of subtly transparent design layers on top of many of the effects that adds color tints and detail. The texturemapped 3d is pretty mad. Just seeing 1 texture on a500 is impressive, but "multitexturing" was never seen before this one I think. Good use of bitplane hardware to add the textures together. At least that is what I think is happening.
rulez added on the 2022-04-11 14:34:30 by rloaderro rloaderro
Thanks so much for sharing full version. Can't believe that this is OCS.... Such another masterpiece from EK
rulez added on the 2022-04-11 18:24:54 by Tron5000 Tron5000
OK.
added on the 2022-04-11 18:45:25 by AntDude AntDude
Superb voxel and ... everythings !!! :)
rulez added on the 2022-04-11 20:18:38 by Beb Beb
Quote:
I'd kindly ask every youtube mugger to remove their video captures of this demo. Only authorized (implicit or explicit) are spkr and magic. Magic didn't ask, but captured the live atmosphere well.


Maybe you can implicit accept RDS his capture to. You won’t get a better quality capture than that.. His channel is highly respected in the demoscene..

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gurCKDp3fz4
added on the 2022-04-11 21:10:10 by magic magic
Always liked his avatar somehow ;)
added on the 2022-04-11 22:18:02 by noname noname
Quote:
I'd kindly ask every youtube mugger to remove their video captures of this demo. Only authorized...

:D My 1440p50 captures are second to none and would soothe the dithering and present graphically the demo in the best way. For a decade now, I've refused to monetize (or become a Patreon beggar), mostly as a (very stubborn at this point...) test of how much the corporation hurts discovery by ransoming pay2win. This is because YT's success is from people uploading, without Google paying for their content.
added on the 2022-04-12 00:20:37 by Photon Photon
Kick-ass demo! A heavy hitter on the big screen at the party!
The colours and design is right up my alley, and the pacing is very good. The music could have some more attitude tho, but that's mainly a personal preference.

It was also nice to meet bifat at the party!

Keep it up with this stuff and AGA will soon be obsolete.
added on the 2022-04-12 01:46:23 by Frost Frost
No-go on A600+Furia020.

writetranshuman just spins as though it can't detect disk-in-drive. If I glitch the floppy by ejecting/inserting around the time it tries to seek, it will start writing and appears to write normally until finished.

Booting the disk acts like it loads in slow-motion, seeking/loading a block (or some amount that I assume must be less than a track) once every 5-10 seconds. Eventually it shows the splash screen and plays some audio, which eventually stops, then plays again after some more slow loading.

Both the writer and the demo/boot seem to seek the floppy in a similar way (by observed spin/seek pattern sound) so maybe some shared code is unhappy, just a hunch.

The live YT rulez anyway!
rulez added on the 2022-04-12 15:39:39 by anix anix
@Tron5000 : Seems censored by copyright , it worked fine until the last few days.
added on the 2022-04-12 19:10:50 by TOUKO TOUKO
What an amazing demo!! For sure one of the best products of the decade!

Just watched it from my real A500 and the floppy disk that was mailed to me! :D
rulezcdc added on the 2022-04-12 19:28:31 by SoDa7 SoDa7
Loved what I saw of it, but sadly the disk copy I was sent has a disk error on track 67! D:
rulez added on the 2022-04-12 19:44:59 by Heavy Stylus Heavy Stylus
Quote:
@Tron5000 : Seems censored by copyright , it worked fine until the last few days.


yeah already got the full version which works perfect on my real HW and also on EMU. As mentioned before... Masterpiece
added on the 2022-04-12 19:56:54 by Tron5000 Tron5000
...but the exe above allowed me to write it to a new disk :) Excellent! :)
Very stylish, cool music and nice effects. Great production!
rulez added on the 2022-04-13 02:58:05 by AW87 AW87
Received my disk today!! Thank you so much, this means a lot to me.
Also this whole thread is so funny reading with the copy protection and so on.
TEK rocks bigtime! This is so retro 80s. Real floppies needed to enjoy the production. It did made me nervous also....since my gotek is DF0: and i happen to have an external drive DF1: but with KickstartRom 1.3 it's not possible to boot from df1 ;-) In the end i was able to create a copy using xcopy to the gotek drive. So this time i was able to boot....but like all here....it crashed after 2/3.
Enjoyed every minute of it!
rulez added on the 2022-04-13 18:37:59 by davince davince
One cool and slick prod that is.
rulez added on the 2022-04-14 10:17:26 by Dma-Sc Dma-Sc
Always a special moment when TEK sends you disks! Even runs on my 1200/060!
rulez added on the 2022-04-14 11:32:30 by AlexCo AlexCo
Very, very, very nice demo!
Runs flawless on 68010 equipped CDTV.
rulez added on the 2022-04-14 12:05:27 by pyksy pyksy
Amazing production. Crazy code, crazy graphics. First music fits and is good, second music is killer. Well done, guys!
rulez added on the 2022-04-14 14:15:23 by Dascon Dascon
My A500 got a nice surprise in the post for lunch :-) Really well put together, and I can appreciate the incremental improvements made to the effects some people have said we've seen before. Inspiring stuff!
rulez added on the 2022-04-14 15:33:00 by Paradroid Paradroid
I received the disk today I don’t know how to thank you guys personally but what an awesome surprise! A big thank you!! And what a masterpiece of a demo is this 🤩 Jasper, Hoofddorp The Netherlands
rulez added on the 2022-04-14 17:58:23 by HattoriHanzo HattoriHanzo
Watched it on my A1200 and it runs surprisingly flawless for an OCS demo. Awesome shit for awesome hardware.
rulez added on the 2022-04-14 19:35:41 by pintcat pintcat
The postman just delivered and the Amiga 1000 is happy tho show this unprecedented awesomeness! Thank you guys, once again.
rulez added on the 2022-04-14 20:25:58 by Z3k Z3k
Just finished to see it on my A1000, great production with very stylish visuals! I'm not crazy for the music but it's my just taste, surely fits the prod.
rulez added on the 2022-04-14 22:34:47 by KONEY KONEY
Utterly impressive! Winners don't use AGA. I've heard winners don't use Amiga at all!

The floppy distribution is such a sweet idea.
rulez added on the 2022-04-14 23:22:41 by m_dr_m m_dr_m
Is there still an option to order a disk with this demo in the mail? :)
rulez added on the 2022-04-15 00:48:56 by MassCBD MassCBD
solid production, well done
rulez added on the 2022-04-15 08:16:08 by roudoudou roudoudou
Absolutely love this; the style absolutely hits the spot for me.
rulez added on the 2022-04-15 12:42:13 by rc55 rc55
cool
rulez added on the 2022-04-15 16:20:38 by Volantis Volantis
Massive!
rulez added on the 2022-04-15 17:11:06 by edhellon edhellon
yes, a very nice production from tek, as usual =)
rulez added on the 2022-04-15 20:13:52 by AMItac_TSA AMItac_TSA
Epic!
rulez added on the 2022-04-15 20:50:54 by micdune micdune
Solid showcase for what you can get out of an A500
rulez added on the 2022-04-17 10:57:29 by exocet exocet
Disk arrived today. Thank you so much @bifat
added on the 2022-04-18 21:21:25 by Skynet Skynet
Defenders of the faith!
rulez added on the 2022-04-19 09:36:35 by peskanov peskanov
Great demo from Tek. Lovely gfx, sound and code. Nice meeting you at Gerp.
rulez added on the 2022-04-19 17:51:11 by Anders Anders
Blown my mind. A great one!
added on the 2022-04-19 21:34:16 by spiryt spiryt
Ran it from floppy. Solid effects nicely linked together. Best soundtrack in any tek demo so far.
rulez added on the 2022-04-21 01:23:37 by djh0ffman djh0ffman
Unbelievable.
rulez added on the 2022-04-21 08:13:12 by Nori Nori
Yes
rulez added on the 2022-04-21 09:16:43 by sasq sasq
impressive!
rulez added on the 2022-04-21 18:02:20 by nhan nhan
Lovely, stylish OCS demo. And thanks for the disk. :)
rulez added on the 2022-04-22 19:55:15 by Blueberry Blueberry
amazing
rulez added on the 2022-04-24 11:42:19 by prm prm
The disk arrived - thank you so much @bifat and crew. The bar has risen...
rulez added on the 2022-04-25 14:51:35 by CoffeeNinja CoffeeNinja
supergeil, and thanks for the disk, that was a nice surprise
rulez added on the 2022-04-27 09:07:36 by cslag cslag
this demo is massive
An absolute masterpiece, I was in awe during the whole show at Gerp.
Congratulations guys!
rulez added on the 2022-04-30 12:14:31 by evil evil
Amazing!
rulez added on the 2022-05-01 14:54:01 by Rhino/BG Rhino/BG
Well-deserved compo winner. Fine work, guys.
rulez added on the 2022-05-02 18:21:21 by Corial Corial
What a surprise... Thank you Bifat for the disk. Great production!
added on the 2022-05-02 22:00:39 by dirtie dirtie
very solid soundtrack
rulez added on the 2022-05-05 15:38:54 by wullon wullon
I like how it managed to stay ahead of the Revision releases in the Top of the Month. First time ever this happened?
added on the 2022-05-05 17:16:41 by noname noname
I'm cancelling my a600+furia bug report above.

Switched floppy drives and the demo loads fine.
added on the 2022-06-13 06:32:29 by anix anix
Watched the youtube video.
All things aside, this is a great demo. Style, gfx, msx, code all play together and deliver a great experience.
rulez added on the 2022-06-19 09:43:57 by v3nom v3nom
brilliant modern demo
rulez added on the 2022-07-20 11:19:13 by eye8 eye8
awesome mood.
rulez added on the 2022-09-28 13:03:51 by comankh comankh
love it :)
rulez added on the 2022-09-28 14:04:35 by NR4 NR4
great
rulez added on the 2022-10-28 21:36:44 by sLASH_1 sLASH_1
Absolutely *TOP* quality !
rulez added on the 2022-12-23 23:59:51 by mccnex mccnex
Totally dig the voxel parts, OTOH the table-parts have left me wondering because the total speed ( colors * num pixels * framerate ) seems to be at least 2x than other table parts I've seen everywhere else.
rulez added on the 2023-01-14 12:52:31 by winden winden
I hadn't seen this yet. Technically impressive.
rulez added on the 2023-03-20 18:29:01 by MuffinHop MuffinHop
Did not expect such a massive hit after Hologon. Some really wow effects and presentation ideas (e.g. the voxel entrance, the beautiful 3d mirrored group logo or the moving balls in the torus inlands, oh my...) and a strong technical vibe overall. Really like the music as well, so many styles and elements mixed into those!
I wish TEK would work put more a bit more attention to details/transistion/timing, but the strong tech department makes up for it anyway.
Must have been great to have seen this live.
rulez added on the 2023-08-01 01:19:47 by fiveofive fiveofive
some really great looking parts here! Music is a bit questionable but certainly high-quality, at least in the sample department.
rulez added on the 2023-10-27 12:31:48 by ferris ferris

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