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• 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
• invitation ZX Spectrum Hackers Top 2010 Autumn Edition Invitation by Target Team
• Probably one of the pioneering uses of raymarching on the ZX Spectrum (another one I recall is in in the intro for InfoGuide #05 diskmag from 2004, but this is rare on the platform).
• rulezadded on the 2025-11-27 21:04:08
• demo ZX Spectrum Timmy by Speccy.pl [web]
• Remains pretty much the only demo for the platform to this day. Rulez.
• rulezadded on the 2025-11-26 01:50:20
• demo Amiga AGA Stonenautica by Stonehead [web]
• Cheesy but I like it!
• rulezadded on the 2025-11-25 05:41:01
• demo ZX Enhanced Touching the Sun by Virtual Vision Group
• If you want another perspective: a 1989-class PC with 386 @ 28Mhz and 4MB RAM with a VGA card is retro, isn't it. So, Next is much much weaker than a 386 at the same Mhz, and it also has poorer resolution than VGA and less memory.
  
  So here you go. Calling Next a "modern computer" is ridiculous. It is still an 8-bit design which can be squarely compared to Sam Coupe.
• isokadded on the 2025-11-21 13:31:15
• demo ZX Enhanced Touching the Sun by Virtual Vision Group
• Of course any appropriately limited fantasy console is retro. And Z80, even running at 50Mhz, is still a 8-bit CPU.
  
  Come on, 68060 is a retro CPU. Anything that has capacities 1/100 of that is a deep deep retro.
• isokadded on the 2025-11-21 13:23:50
• demo ZX Spectrum ugly kid, magic star by Triebkraft & 4th Dimension
• This is well above the traditional "nerd only" effect shows and crossing into animation accessible for casual non-scene vierwers. Great demo. Rulez.
• rulezadded on the 2025-11-18 06:10:08