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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

• 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
• intro Windows Kumpa
• Fractal zoomers were awesome when Shining and Stellar made them! But now there are many, and an evening's implementation of a fractalzoomer in BASIC, I have to vote that it sucks. Computers are fast enough to run BASIC programs fast now.
  
  BTW if you want, check out BBC BASIC for Windows released a while ago, it's very likely even faster, and excellent :)
• sucksadded on the 2015-09-25 23:57:26
• demo Amiga OCS/ECS Blu Sky by Scoopex [web]
• sq: That's not true. Here, I show a new effect: Sweep Mode, and a full-screen sine effect which is ridiculously much larger than in any demo before, and HAM5 vectors filled by the Denise chip.
• isokadded on the 2015-09-24 22:41:32
• demo ZX Spectrum Kpacku Deluxe by Kpacku
• You are much too sensitive about platform categories, maybe other zx platform fans flame you, I don't know. I'm not an enemy of ZX platforms, I'm not a fighter on one side of enhanced or not, and I didn't know the platform because you didn't specify it. It seems more people than me missed the platform comments.
  
  It's a demoscene tradition and helpful to have system requirements in nfo. Why not do this, like the other groups do? You just upload and say nothing, people try in emulator and have to ask questions.
  
  The first thing that should have happened after upload would be to say that this demo is a remix of Kpacku. You upload this here and say nothing. Perhaps I overreact to Abscess's comment. It depends. Did the orgas and partyvoters know, i.e. had seen the previous version? I think it's clear: yes. Did all the voters here know? I think a bunch didn't. Is enough stuff added or improved? At another party it could be disqualified or get low scores, depending on the amount.
  
  Virtually everyone releases a demo and then make another demo for another release or party. That is competition on equal terms. Some demos reuse effects, and voters who see it and think it's bad vote it down or give it a lower score. And if you reuse many effects? A remix. So, should all remixes be voted down?
  
  I think remixes put you in an impossible position and forces you to either choose randomly, pretend they're not there, or vote the same each time from some rule. I have now learned that all three are bad choices for the voter. :/
• isokadded on the 2015-09-24 22:09:42
• demo ZX Spectrum kpacku by Kpacku
• Thx introspec! Only have ZX Spin, so I guess I get one of these, which though? http://www.worldofspectrum.org/emulators.html#pcrus
• isokadded on the 2015-09-24 18:33:49
• musicdisk Amiga OCS/ECS Chiperia Issue #3 by The Chiperia Project
• Some excellent chiptunes here, and nice gfx :)
• rulezadded on the 2015-09-24 18:05:27
• demo ZX Spectrum Kpacku Deluxe by Kpacku
• (To clarify, see last year's compowinner from the same party. Iso worm and scrolling pic added this year.)
• isokadded on the 2015-09-24 01:07:23
• demo ZX Spectrum kpacku by Kpacku
• I rest my case. :)
• isokadded on the 2015-09-24 00:54:35