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• general:
• level: user
• personal:
• first name: Henrik
• last name: Erlandsson
• cdcs:
• cdc #1: Hardwired by Crionics & The Silents [web]
• cdc #2: Vector All Times by Tristan Lorach
• cdc #3: Ikadalawampu by Loonies [web]
• cdc #4: eihwaz by Hedj & Schafft

• demo Wild Jupiter & Beyond by St. Vincent And The Grenadines [web] & Tristar & Red Sector Inc. [web]
• Cool use of the dev board & full-blooded demo with varied effects that kept interest up!
• rulezadded on the 2015-12-20 17:59:27
• intro Amiga OCS/ECS Boing ball by Nukleus [web]
• Really thought this was crap, sorry guys...
• sucksadded on the 2015-12-20 00:08:51
• demo Amiga AGA COPPERrulez.AGAin
• Many of the effects don't require AGA other than for smoother shading (e.g. chessbars, twisted color-cycle bars look good), but this comes across as you having the same experimental fun as the coders of the classic copper demos on OCS, and it's clear which ones you have been inspired by for your versions ;)
  
  I agree with comments about music but it didn't stop me from waiting to see what would come next. Since so much has been done with the copper, it was hard to spot a nice new take/tweak. But if there are any, this is the way to find them, so a motivational thumb towards that, or other effects you want to do :)
• rulezadded on the 2015-12-19 23:52:34
• 16k intro Amiga OCS/ECS Gerptro by Rift & Slipstream [web]
• It's fine for the size :) But yeah it could have benefited from some extra bytes for increased pleasure, especially the tune.
• isokadded on the 2015-11-08 02:28:43
• 128b ZX Spectrum z80pi (spigot) by Serzhsoft
• This is just one step removed from just calculating the digits, but not printing them. Would it be a demoscene release then? Is it now?
  
  This was an interesting read in BYTE magazine, June 1981, and then it actually had a potential use for some narrow applications in Science.
  
  It just seems it's a neutral computer program dissociated from the demoscene. "128b" suggests "128b intro", so... maybe a category for things like this if we are to have it here, like we have for slideshows, etc?
• isokadded on the 2015-11-06 21:55:28
• demo Amiga AGA Scored by Zenon [web]
• What Britelite said, maybe too 1996 and the Say samples didn't fit the music, but I really lliked the first part :)
• rulezadded on the 2015-10-27 00:13:33
• demo Amiga AGA Last Train To Danzig by Ghostown & Haujobb
• Really liked the exploding blocks part, but yeah. I would have liked 1/20 block count and real explosions more :)
  
  I would like to say though that I agree with criticisms, obviously made for quick pace. But it works, I would say! And a demo is where gfx compo graphics should be! Especially Slayer's excellent winner pic :) Glitch effects seem to cry out for sounds to go with them :) but overall this is good-looking and runs without problems (and quicker than in the Youtube... so real Amiga is recommended).
  
  Demos have always been about promoting yourself and your group :) So I don't mind "just consists of credits", please add spinning scanned heads of everyone involved! Hehe. But when it's design-driven and short like this, you're not allowed to "get into" the demo I think.
• isokadded on the 2015-10-26 23:44:00
• 96k musicdisk Amiga OCS/ECS Chiperia Gerp Edition by The Chiperia Project
• Furious productivity, nice :)
• rulezadded on the 2015-10-18 03:24:42
• wild Animation/Video Sofa So Good by Gaspode
• Cute, bouncy font letters in title was a neat touch, and ska-ish music was good :) Did you make the music too??
• rulezadded on the 2015-10-04 19:08:01
• demo ZX Spectrum Kpacku Deluxe by Kpacku
• introspec: thanks for the rational comment and for caring.
  
  Yes, it could be a BBS topic, but you know... people will blow fuses, call names and start wars (Russians ZX fans between themselves too!) and post unrelated pictures of goats there, as in the other threads... Pouet is at the same time the only official multiplatform site we have and also sometimes seems full of people who don't care about demos, just about showing how jaded/"experienced" and tired of life they are... It can be depressing to me to visit Pouet sometimes.
  
  Do you think I want to vote down a good demo?
  
  I just care to know what I'm looking at, because I'm interested in limited hardware achievements, like a lot of people here. Some will just watch Youtube, looks good, thumb up, but I care more and spend more time on someone's work.
  
  After, there was a reply that it was not a fast special expansion ZX - good! But when I voted down, it was for this demo for unspecified platform, I didn't know about Kpacku, and when I found out from abscess link, I thought this was version 2.0 uploaded, and no information, something hidden, why spoil the chance of getting many thumbs?
  
  On remix, I agree with you and let's differentiate remixes and versions!
  
  Remixes are usually done a bit later, maybe as sarcasm or with some purpose anyway by someone else, and has the same scenes and general form, but different from the original. Like a remix of a song. Pouet has this tag for those things, and I think it doesn't fit here (and on on some very few other improved demos).
  
  I am against versions in competitions, because you could add more and more to it, and release and release until the demo is a fantastically awesome overwhelming production. People who hadn't seen the previous version would be blown away and you would win easily. If everyone did it, the scene would be a boring place. In this case, I think (as I said) that it's clear most people knew at the party, and you now confirmed that it was announced. That's good! :) But as I said - at another party, the orgas could have disqualified it, and have a good reason. Attitudes are different.
  
  So, orga-announced release at a party: so a new release on Pouet, like Rink-a-Dink: Redux on Revision party. For demos not release at a party, it would have been a link added to the old prod, like Falcon version of Starstruck that came later.
  
  The long accepted behavior is that if the party release was not finished as you wanted it due to deadline pressure, you declare "party version" and add a final version link to the same page on Pouet, in a short time. I always keep partyversion link alive, no information hidden. We are writing history here, not playing. Others can give away votes and thumbs as if they are worth nothing, but it's not for me. I'm an active scener who knows a lot of platforms, so this matters to me and I try to put time into checking prods. I didn't know Pentagon... I think it's a good idea to make an effort to educate westerners ;) At least for awareness.
  
  So I see Kpacku Deluxe as version 2.0 of Kpacku, not a remix. I said remix because Pouet allows only 1) new link on original demo page and 2) remix tag. The release on a party = separate Pouet page is what created the need for some sort of reference. So know that I suggested remix tag only because that's what is available.
  
  So, this is a version, not a remix, and it's one of the biggest because it builds on the previous version. The first minutes part, or last minutes part - which is more impressive? Could the last minutes part have been an impressive demo on its own? We will never know.
  
  So remixes are easy, and versions are hard to vote on for me. I voted down on this, but up for Rink-a-Dink: redux, even if it's a version. Am I a platform bigot and a hypocrite? No, I felt forced to not thumb it down, because there was a reference to the previous version and many years had passed. But note that I'm one of the few who writes reservations with my vote on that demo. And this probably makes me look like an asshole to some people who care for "my platform". Sometimes it's just impossible... :/
• isokadded on the 2015-09-26 01:42:53