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• cdcs:
• cdc #1: paimen by Coma
• cdc #2: Unshaped by Masters Of Electric City
• cdc #3: Number One/Another One by Carillon & Cyberiad [web] & Fairlight [web]
• cdc #4: sjasmplus

• demo ZX Spectrum Scroller
• This is definitely the most impressive scroller for Pentagon. It beats the fillrate limitation by implementing a differential updates scheme and combining this with the multicolour is a proper technical challenge, solved here for the first time.
  
  Maybe it's hard to appreciate for people from other platforms, but scrolling with colour is properly hard on ZX Spectrum. Hard to the extent that it was commonly thought to be impossible not very long ago.
• rulezadded on the 2022-02-09 22:48:38
• musicdisk MS-Dos System Beeps by Shiru
• @TomCatAbaddon, it must have been some temporary issue, I just tried your link and it works fine.
  
  Anyway, I am a big fun of this album, even if the choice of platform makes me mildly annoyed (because ZX Spectrum is the capital of Beepland, and will always be). But as far as complaints about releases go, this is an obvious non-starter, right?
• rulezadded on the 2022-01-29 15:54:50
• musicdisk ZX Spectrum Shiru's 1-Bit Music Compilation Vol.2 by Shiru
• Loved both your tracks from the winter DiHalt, esp. "Geostorm"!
• rulezadded on the 2022-01-18 14:53:37
• demo ZX Spectrum ZX Clive [Tribute] by Polish ZX All Stars
• This feels vaguely familiar :)
  
  Many thanks for making a worthy tribute.
• rulezadded on the 2021-12-29 12:12:19
• demo ZX Spectrum Possible by Acid Maker & Jakub Husak
• Nice to see a new pixel-style demo in 2021.
  I hope it will be possible to see more from you, guys!
• rulezadded on the 2021-12-29 10:54:08
• demo Commodore 64 Submerged by Hoaxers & Wrath Designs [web]
• Sublime graphics and very good sound track. I find the concept overstretched, so could not relate fully, esp. to some of the text, but consistent theme is always a plus. I just wish more effect ideas would not be just scroller variations.
• rulezadded on the 2021-12-05 22:47:32
• demo SNES/Super Famicom nu by Elix
• I am sorry I did not like this a very long time ago. Of course it rules and I frankly don't care how it was done under the bonnet. This is what a modern retrodemo should look like, but very rarely does.
  
  The thing is, I desperately want to steal pieces of it, and it took me a while to develop enough courage to even admit it. I actually still want to steal the sliced pyramid, but I'm working on this with my psychoanalyst.
• rulezadded on the 2021-11-10 13:26:38
• demo Amiga OCS/ECS Andy and Blondie by Finity Games
• I am probably the TA, as I know exactly what this refers to. It is not easy to like this, as it is very lighthearted and unfocussed, and not really funny. But I like the consistence of it, it did not overstay its welcome, and, in any case, we need more Andy in our lives.
• rulezadded on the 2021-11-10 13:21:58
• demo MS-Dos/gus cöncept by Ümlaüt Design [web]
• I don't think you need to justify anything tbh. This is very much a love letter to the late 1990s demos. It is not perfect (they weren't either). It is nostalgic, the reference is clear and the standard of visuals is actually comparable to the majority of demos from the era. This would be one of the remembered ones if it was released back than, so I do not really understand the criticism of insufficient technicality.
  
  I love multilayered design from this era, and was tempted to replicate it on several occasions. It is not that hard to replicate. Two real issues with these demos are 1. while they are consistent stylistically, they are rarely coherent, and 2. somehow, the vast majority of these demos are surprisingly substance-free, just pure shiny surface. Somehow, making this kind of demo twenty years later, and still keeping it incoherent and substance-free feels a bit underwhelming.
• rulezadded on the 2021-09-17 23:50:21
• demo ZX Spectrum devolver by Stardust
• [Placeholder for a joke about plasma.]
  Frankly, I want more, but I am a sucker for good pixels. And these pixels are insanely good.
• rulezadded on the 2021-08-31 00:46:39