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• demo ZX Enhanced Touching the Sun by Virtual Vision Group
• Discussion is pointless because you're clearly defining "retro" in your own, year-of-hardware-production way, and using that very narrow definition that says *nothing* about the platform's capabilities (you yourself understand that, which you highlighted by saying that ZX Evo Base is retro whereas TS-Conf supposedly isn't - same hw, different caps), you draw absurd conclusions, like saying that a machine with worse capabilities than that of a 1985 PC isn't retro.
  
  Seriously, go write a demo (can be a tech demo) to showcase its *modern* capabilities if you believe the platform is in the same league with the modern PCs.
• isokadded on the 2026-01-14 04:19:20
• demo ZX Enhanced Touching the Sun by Virtual Vision Group
• You care about hardware details too much, perhaps because you’re a hardware person.
  
  Computational power, video modes, and memory size are what really define what a platform can and cannot do. These characteristics are what place the Next in the retro category, because they are not even at a 1989 level - let alone 2018.
• isokadded on the 2026-01-14 03:42:49
• demo ZX Spectrum Tailwind by Gemba Boys
• Great demo!
• rulezadded on the 2026-01-05 06:35:28
• 256b ZX Spectrum Metamorf / Alien Spore Metamorphosis by Invaders
• How come it came 14th??? Great 256b intro.
• rulezadded on the 2025-12-28 07:46:51
• demo Amiga AGA Silent Nahght by Nah-Kolor [web]
• Very sweet!
• rulezadded on the 2025-12-26 06:17:06
• demo ZX Spectrum GronGift25 by zxgfxcrew
• Given that this is a somewhat personal demo, it felt natural to send the wishes in the birthday boy's native language (also, not everyone involved in the creation might be fluent enough in English to express them without resorting to platitudes and boilerplate phrases).
  
  Not sure if anyone feels like making a translation for a video (it already was quite a crunch to beat the clock, we need to cool down :) ) - but I plan to release the sources on github soon and they will contain the machine-readable wishes so you could use your fav translator on those :)
• isokadded on the 2025-12-26 05:19:19
• demo ZX Enhanced Touching the Sun by Virtual Vision Group
• Of course its architecture alone is enough to be considered retro. You cannot close the gap to modern stuff by speeding it up just hundreds of times as you hypothesized, the gap is much wider - you'd need to speed it up several million times. And the Next, to remind you, is only 5-8x times faster than the original ZX Spectrum - not close to even break out from its own league.
  
  And of course a 1994 - let alone 1989 - tech is retro. What year are you living in? We're about to enter the second quarter of the 21st century; current consumer grade hw is more performant than supercomputers from that bygone era, and you somehow still doubt whether 1989 should be considered retro.
  
  Pointless argument. Go write a demo for the Next and prove that it can rival modern demos... or for that matter, even Amiga and PC demos from that era.
• isokadded on the 2025-12-05 03:08:53
• game Amiga AGA wild flying by Push Entertainment [web]
• Cool idea for an Amiga game!
• rulezadded on the 2025-12-03 16:35:30
• demo ZX Spectrum lifeforms by Placebo
• The peak of ZX Spectrum tech. Very rare to see such an advanced realtime rendering tech on this 8-bit platform. A lot of later demos may look nicer/faster, but are essentially precalculated data players with 0 interactivity.
• rulezadded on the 2025-12-03 16:34:19
• intro ZX Spectrum Technogen by Brainwave
• Impressive code, good fps.
• rulezadded on the 2025-11-28 22:01:46