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This demo simlpy roxx! Very nice modelling, good ideas!

The first plot demo ever which I didn´t find nauseating. Not outstanding, but very cute...

me like.. but why the fuck do you write c on the amiga?

Sweet! She absolutely rocks :)

Cute <3

really original demo, laughed a lot while watching

nice, but a little slowpaced.

sweet

Slowly paced, but cool

hahaha, like this!

ik mocht niet op esc drukken van ile

had ik maar ja gezegd :(

Ahem. Dunno. A girl coding demo stuff on all sorts of machines, but using the 'wrong' languages. Was that the punchline? I don't quite get it. Story demos are evil.

AWESOME!!! Wish she'd coded more Amigo effects though.

Damn, i felt in love with that girl :) Cool demo.

weeee

nope

Great idea and nice execution. A worthy winner, though I preferred the ASD one more.

Some 3d models, old computers and and dramatic music. Why don't you just got and kiss the gamers' asses directly? :p

NO NOOOOOOOOO NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Poor little girl face 8). Music is cool, execution not so

ideas rulez

A bit on the slow side, but at least had an idea. Nothing new tho'

Good idea, nice 3d, nice music and a very good crt effect. On the other hand, the girl could move her hands a little more on the keyboard at times and the greetings part was somewhat slow on my Athlon XP 2800, gf FX 5600. I watched the linux version btw.

Sure, there were better demos in the compo, but you know how it works on parties :-)

great

LOVE \o/ \o/ this is our life !!!

nice idea, but the fact that it's a girl makes it very unrealistic! we all know girls can't code!!!!!!

I know girls that can code! :)

Okay demo. My computer wasnt really up to it so I am not going to give it a rulez og sucks.

A cute girl who can code, now who wouldn't want on of those?
Especially since she seems to be a super-genious able to code a fast starfield in C64 BASIC...

:)

Looks good. But it keeps crashing randomly on my box...

Wow! What fantastic character animation!

Okay, okay, I'm being sarcastic...

Great idea let down by half-baked execution. A shame, a shame.

And in regards to the comments about "wrong languages" -- I'm thinking the idea is "progression," similar to C64 > Amiga > PC, but instead BASIC > C > ASM...

Maybe...

Wonderful!

Okayish, but no winner. The monitor effect is very nice.

thom: I think the natural progression back then was Basic > ASM > C.

i really liked this one. nice 'story' and great flow, even tho it was a wee bit simplistic.

Nice idea. Technically not state of the art, but who cares.

Great idea, great demo. Amd the chik has niiiiiiiiiiiice tits when she codein' on PC... :P

It's clear that *they* *have* *computers*.

it's nice but please consider using ASM on PC is out of age....
I really like the Amiga part.

it's nice but please consider using ASM on PC is out of age....
I really like the Amiga part.

stelthz: It's called "artistic license..."

nice very fresh :)

winnerdemo! hopefully i won't see it again ever.

crap!

I liked it! (How wouldn't I? ;)

this wasnt even close the best demo at asm.

it disgusts me to see people do stuff like this, which seem to be only done to get votes and to win the compo.

cheap sentimentalism ! this really won ?

Entertaining and well executed. Thank you.

Beautiful :~)

it was cute but it didnt deserve to win

cheap sentimentalism indeed. still, it's pretty professionally executed...

Not perfect by any means, but I can't deny enjoying this. As for the expected "x should've won" whinings, at least this had some kind of an idea behind it instead of a mess of 2567828 glowing layers.. And it's not Metalvoltze either. ;)

Felt a bit like "oh, old effects on PC again, how delightfully oldskool and retro" at first, until the Amiga ball appeared and I finally got the idea.

Not exactly my choice for 1st place either, but still a neat idea and cute delivery and of course the fact that it didn't immediately make me puke even though it was a 3D story demo is a definite plus.

nice but on the other hand i always waited for something to "really" happen..

I have this cool idea.. Lets try and show the evolution of the demoscene, I think its a really new and fresh idea..

Or, not.

i guess i dont feel this prod deserves a thumb down but.. it didn't make me feel a damn thing. why this made 1th place is as big a mystery to me as winnerdemo's placement on bp.

and this **** won at assembly!? haha!

This is the story of my life. cept I'm not female. And that's why I loved it. It's not the best technically, but it tugged at my heartstrings, and I love it. I'm suprized and glad it won, but I didn't expect it to.

youve got to be kidding me

its ok

Crashed shortly after the beginning.

Thumbs up for the idea, but I agree that the progression should have been BASIC -> ASM -> C

Sooo boring it hurts

Haha. Great Tits!

I guess the old, obsolete, drunk crowd out numbered the new, fresh, idealists at assembly (or any other party for that matter) again. Do we really need to reminisce about "the good ol' days" every single year? Let's start progressing some, people.

Nice idea... and a very cool tune!
But: This WON assembly??? Were only C64 fanboys there???
The girl looks... static... no motion or emotion, it just sits like a doll... the gir is sooo boring!

Sorry to say that: absolutely overrated, ASM should have won...

Heh.. Reading the comments it looks like someone should do some more research on how assembly works. This demo is pretty much a perfect execution of a crowdpleaser that will win assembly. It has everything it takes to impress the 4000 gamers that are forced to watch it and thereby vote, and it has enough nostalgic moments for most of the demosceners to vote it in the top 5.

So yes, this really won. So did legomania.

an outstanding piece of working this one. i loved, it made me smile :) And the music is fscking amazing, just want to listen it looping, on and on. Luckily the ogg didn't even have to be extracted from the demo :)

The only problem, that others have already stated, was the "static" look of the girl. some more animation, facial expressions et cetera would have been nice. Though it rocks anyway, truly a deserved winner !!!

basically just a few 3d-scenes. would have fitted better in the video-compo.
the theme itself ("computer nostalgia") is not so very new, but the execution is quite well done.
i second leia, perfect big-party-crowdpleaser: nostalgia, 3d and there is even a girl (huhu, like lara, huhu).

Lame idea (I second arneweisse on this), but quality-wise carried out professionally.

I wonder who voted this #1 though... some possible candidates have been discussed, but I'd also bet a group of young gamers/sceners trying to act older and/or "leet" by pretending nostalgy towards old machines.

While not so technically great, the idea is excellent! Maybe this prod shouldn't have won, but I'm happy with it ;)

Stop whining about the static look of the girl - how many other demos have real character animation? The scenes maybe static but they're very detailed and nicely lit.

Good transitions between scenes - allthough the camera movement could have been a bit less smooth to make it look better.

Also dont forget the nice intro with the electronic blueprint with credits.

Stop whining about the static look of the girl - how many other demos have real character animation? The scenes maybe static but they're very detailed and nicely lit.

Good transitions between scenes - allthough the camera movement could have been a bit less smooth to make it look better.

Also dont forget the nice intro with the electronic blueprint with credits.

Storydemos suck, and the music was really irritating.

saw it again, sorry, need to thumb it down... i even liked winnerdemo better than this crap.

I don't know how it looked on the big screen but it sucks quite much anyway.

Another sucking 'winnerdemo'.

Why this won is beyond me.

Could it be that most people miss the "good old days", and that the people who weren't a part of the scene back then wish they were?
Hey, I'm as much of a sobbing retro lover as the rest of you, but I don't think this should have won.

Nice demo though.

Cute Funny Original too much 3D playing, BUT man! nowadays demos tend to explain a storyline, so try to do that with a copperbars ala oldskool style! huh?

The most surprising of all , and the BEST point on this prod, is that hitek succeded in making all running on a P3 500 using a crappy GF2 MX !!!! WOW WOW!

I'm wondering if this demo were released by other famous demogroups, Anal-shaders or Pussy-fragments would be needed? they're really needed outside videogame industry?...uhm in order to win reconeisance and respect among a DEMOPARTY with a 1st place, seems NOT

Stupid votephishing.

Jak : What are you talking about man... That drivel is typical of people unable to use/watch shader-based demos, and hence diss the technology as 'unneeded for the demoscene'. Which is a bit moronic to say the least...

As for the demo : Very well made. Well done and congratulations ! Keep it up.

this didn't manage to make me smile.

hm ok, I take the last statement back (about the moronic think). I now realise what you mean :-)

Navis: I do not live in Greece and have nothing to do with the Turkey-historical -incident, so calling me Moronic, it's somekind nonsense ;) heheh

I'm NOT against cutting edge-shader-stuff prods, I'm just tired of missusing technology...btw this not the case of Planet Risk wich rocks!

ok my bad...

But what has Turkey/Greece got to do with the word 'moron' ?
In any case, I apologise, the statement about 'moronic' ideas about shaders, was a description of a group of people, rather than of an individual.

This was quite nice .. felt good.

this is somehow very wonderful

By the way, this crashes on my Radeon9800Pro (around the Amiga part, but it could be random).. It worked fine on the crappy integrated Radeion9000 though, with nearly the same setup otherwise.

And while I must say this looked far better on the big screen while drunk and seriously sleep deprived, I still like it.

touching

well ... sweet, sentimental and cheesy. and no surprise at all. we all went that from way, mostly. and while just showing that migration might be a nice basis for a good demo, it's not a good demo itself automatically. cute approach, but no innovation and no style ...

and something I'll never get: if your realisticly intented 3D model of a human being somewhat just ends up looking fake, why sticking with this realism? in this case a cool, more abstract and comic like character with more style and decent animation would have done so much better. and would have had so much more character ...

and while I talked of it: just displaying 3D things most realisticly might be technically challenging, but is visually plain BORING. the grade of abstraction, exaggeration and interpretation is what makes it interesting, stylish and artsy.

its nice i like it

It's a pretty nice little crowd pleaser, but cheaper than a 100 baht crackwhore in Bangkok.

Let's all wait for a nude patch!

nerdy.
gotta be oldshcooler or coder to appretiate this prolly.
and Im not gonna watch it again.

stiff, cheesy and stupid. first place guaranteed

buggy

i didn't enjoy this really... i mean, cute and stuff, but in that moment it didn't work...

but then suddenly a guitarattack hammered me to the floor, thus saving the demo :D

I liked it. Ok, it won't make history, but the idea is fine and it looks good. I found the girl way too static, though.

yeah! the 'story' is true!

i don't have a clue how could this won.
technically this must be really bad, it is absolutely NOT smooth on this P4 1.8Ghz, wow this is ridicoulus.
i'm a veteran retro coder (i've been workin on C+4, Amiga, etc) but i could not really grasp any atmosphere :)

Style- and storywise, this stood out from all the other demos but I can't say that I wasn't surprised when this demo turned out to be the winner

MC: Nem azert mert plusisosk eleve utaljak a cehatvannegyet ? :)))

The model-animation in this demo is pretty painful, but still the emotion it brought home is what made this a winner. The spirit is there.

It didn't make my laugh, and I think that's about everything this demo has to offer.

1st place???!!! Yeah...

i cannot find words to describe this shit.
sorry hiteck :(

not a winner to me at least...

i guess the idea was ok, the execution could have been better, but it wasn't bad (although the last scene was notably jerky). But somehow the whole thing left me feeling that it was a bit crap... a bit too sentimental in a cheesy way perhaps. And why does the girl have shades on while she's coding the pc?? does she not know you can buy monitor filters? or does she have a hangover and she's coding at the party?

probably she is leia and she is suffering from
hangover <GRIN>

this owned!! Much better and cooler than 1st place imo :)

This is like Winnerdemo all over again.

This one was like the life story of sceners that have been around since the 8-bit days... almost brought tears to my eyes. This is definitely one where content outweighed presentation, and well done too!

Nice ideas imho, not bad at all

It's quite good, and I like the Linux binary (even though the first part with the credits stutters quite badly there)... still I'd have given first place to Planet Risk which I personally like more.

another boring storydemo. no.

fuck this cheap crap

Crashes while displaying the C64 part.. Gffx5600, p4 2.8HT, 1GB Ram, forceware 61.77. Will wait for final before voting..

nice crap!!! ugly "oldschool" demo...

Very nice.

definitely not the first place, though cool idea

spreading underaged girls don't impress me

rocks.

Can't thumb it up or down due to crash.

the best part is definetely the fact that she's at ASM'04, coding a "logo drawing routine" in ASM with the QBasic editor... :D

this thing crashed here

The music serves the narration perfectly. Proffessional quality in 3d, and good flow at the storyboard. Though my guess is it won't stand out in the crowd in the long run, it is a very entairtaining production and does certainly deserve a thumbs up

bad points :
- only C64, A500+ (yes! rom seems to be Kickstart2.0 and it use a hard drive but where is the left device?) and PC in DOS mode, where are the other legendary computers? (Amstrad, Atari, Accelerated PC...)
- loong black loading, bad files package of the uncompressed datas
- why did you use those faked names ? 'Commahdore', 'Améga'...

good points :
- music is very good and well used, rythm of the scenes are good, cameras are ok
- lightmap usage is good, modeling is ok (poor modeling of the computers, few animations of the hands)
- nostalgia, and the fact the girl grows with the evolution of computers is a good idea and the key of the emotions

so, enough for a thumb up, a sequel will be good with more detailled meshs and more various computers.

nice crowd-pleasing story idea.

there is an undefined thing in the girl that makes me dislike her...

Very uneven quality, some things are really cool whereas a few others are really badly done.
Mixed feeling in the end, thumb up anyway.

I prefered We Cell / Kewlers though :)

Nostalgy didnt work for me.. I'm too young for that.

Then I have the same comment as keops.. Moreover, music could be much more leet itself. And too bad, the content is only a big flyby through 3D scenes.. I dont think this is a demo. Asd / planet risk (for visuals) and We Cell / Kewlers (for music) are far better I think, check them out.

sorry, but boooring ..
this simply demonstrates how easy sceners can be influenced by girls and some lame oldskoolfx for voting, there were much better releases. the quality of the demo wasn't that good and the story was uninspired.

Shame to those ASM visitors, who voted for this crap.

loved it.

cheap peace of garbage. as soon as you're showing an amiga or c64 you are hip or what? same thing with metalvotze-winnerdemo. by the way...the modeling sux...though the idea ist quite good the excecution lames.

Oh well, I liked this one.

so it means that if you want to make a demo, you have to use PC?

Didn't enjoy this. Not one bit.

nice.. but could be better..

by the way, note there was C++ there - something like std::list<Edge> 8-]

I agree that it did not deserve to win the compo, but it was very well executed. Some of the nicest points were the real code, the realistic graphics on the screen (including the screen shadow mesh and/or subpixels, I know it was just an overlayed texture but that takes some thought and study to make it different for each machine). The music wasn't bad.

Although this is a story demo, it's not a bad one. It's a lot better than plenty of the other demos that are just a rotating mesh with some stock shader effects on it and messages that go "HAY GUYS WE CAN ROTATE A COOLER LOOKING OBJECT THAN YOU". There have been worse demos to win assembly.

If you nitpick about the code and timeline and things, you really are not the sort of person who can give a balanced opinion on anything and should shut the hell up.

Not my cup of tea. Nice 3d-models thougth.

nice idea tho not the winner imho. the girl model was way to rigid. take a look at vip2. the face at the end was nicely animated.

Yeah, was said several times: good demo, but not really a winnerdemo (haha, what a bad joke). The girl could've been better animated, some parts a bit shortend.

An astute demo, which tries to capture the audience (succeeding in it, as I can see) showing memories and memorabilia from the past.
However nice music and idea compensate the not-perfect technical realization and so maybe it is worth a look, in particular if you are born before early eighties.

But it's simply a shame that this is the winner of asm04, with ASD and Kewlers demos around.

Not a winner in my heart, as it personally doesn't rate in my top 3 asm04 favorites.

Some nice models, although everything is a wee bit static. At least the scenes use good lighting parameters and are rather detailed.

Still, quite a lot of work involved, and it is pretty decent overall. Not something I'd watch more than once though.

nice one =)

i honestly want to give this one a thumb down.. but i keep looking at the screenshot and that blue glow, and i can't. :)

yes, this was definitely meant to pander to the audience to get votes.. but c'mon, like it hasn't happened a hundred times before. i knew where they were going, but like many other demos, the story was vague and less emotional than it could've been. i won't nitpick at what "effects" and "code" were done on what computers, that's for the geeks to do. :) but yeah, the nostalgia thing is only going to work for so long...

Aside from the technical aspects, this is one of the sweetest demos I've seen in years. Excellent.

It is just superb!
And the music....the music !

(ja, ich weiss, ich bin ein Audiofetischist)

Great!

Crowdpleasing or not, this gave me some nice feelings

Great design, great idea... great demo!

Really Cool from start to finish, very welldone and what a joy and full of nostalgic memories.

BRAVO :)

Nice 3d-models but thats all.

somebody stab me in the face before I get asleep.

we cell !!!!!

a girl form my dreams :)

must be veery stretchy to sit like that %)

Being a fan of oldschool stuff I enjoyed this, the effects were ok but it gets a thumb for the modelling which is really nice.

I love it, really nice!

forgive me but i really enjoy this.

It doesn't work on my new pc! arghhh!

Not technically awesome but it's touching.

so-so actually

Attitude rules!

Very, very nice. Not the best character animation, but definitely the best feeling. I was moved.

i love it

A collection of geek clichés.

didn't thumb it yet? :D

well its, sweet, but.....
its a shame that this won over planet risk, and come clean, sorry guys

here's an extra thumb! agreed 100% with tomcat.

What an ugly demo... No way this is better than planet risk and come clean...

The music saves this otherwise quite boring production. Also the girl is unnecessarily large in the chest region when she's come of age, which I feel is just childishly sexist and otherwise typical in a bad way for the scene.

great great great!

I learned to program on a C64 too. Great great great!

I have to admit that the music really rocks - just like in winnerdemo.

o m g !

Obsoleet by Unreal Voodoo has a very special atmosphere which I guess makes most of us just love it. This is a nostalgic trip that goes back to our C64/128-Amiga childhood.

It's not very impressive technically and it's not about abstract art, so if that's your cup of tea you might not like it. Some people might call it "a boring 3d-fly-by", but I think the demo as a whole has a very high quality.

Graphics looks a bit simple but is still nice, although I would have liked to see the girl model looking a bit less stiff.

The soundtrack by Cairbre is a masterpiece alone and can be downloaded separatly from Unreal Voodoo's website. It really fits like a glove and I love the way it evolves with the demo.

For me, this is a rare gem.
Well made Unreal Voodoo.

really awesome. no other word can describe that.

Really love it. Not technically astonishing but I love the idea and the music.

yupp.. nice!

Entertaining idea.

That music would make any demo rock. I like Obsoleet cause I'm just a gamer kiddie.

Well maybe this should have attended the wild/short film compo.

I agree with Nosfe. Without the thumb down though.

winnerdemo > obsoleet

YEAH! with code samples (TM)

Uh, I thought I already dissed this to hell... well, here you go.

ha ha, fucking rocks!!! Brilliant!

Great!

a worthy winner, fuckings to disagreeing emo wankers :)

rox

nice idea

nice idea, cool tune!!

very nice!

not a nice idea..

worthy winner in your ass waffle, you probably voted for this piece of turd ;) sorry hitek but this is.. piece of turd

this demo shows how to kiss audience ass
- a girl
- tits
- amiga
- c64
- classic demo effects
- cheesy music

It might not be technically very challenging, but it is one of the key demos that originally inspired me to the scene.

Aaaah! I give a thumbs up 9/10. Well, this touches a lot of hearts from the early eighties onwards. I really enjoying looking at this. This left me with a nice warm reflection on those days and how some things still don't change.

Not exceptional.
For the atmosphere.

Crap. Just a flyby. What uns3en_ said :D

good stuff

nice but yep, this is the Winnerdemo all over again.

This is a cool demo folks, the boy that looks like a girl in front of the screens has got style.

uns3en: Well I think most of the demos were load of crap. ASD was better but they got the 2nd place iirc so I don't have to whine about it. :)

original idea

hmm... what radiantx said I think.

doesnt work here
windows.

lobstercrap

meh, it was ok but didn't do much for me at the time (and still doesn't). i dig the "cheesy" music though.

nice!

Haha, nice prod!

Flashback city...

Very gr8 demo.

:D

Thumb for evoking nostalgia even though I am totally new to this scene...!

La merdeuse a une sale trogne but great démo !! RULEZ !

this is the compo winner, argh. oh crap.

Technically and artistically this is quite poor, but it makes up for it with atmosphere.

Of course, most votes are for the nostalgia trip and for someone who enjoyed the "oldskool years" this has such a cosy feeling and is really uplifting to watch.

Definitely shouldn't have won. But since I'm not voting about the results and this demo is kinda cute and somewhat entertaining, I'll give it a thumb.

cheesy cheesy cheesy... ok then, thumb up for the atmosphere :)
(nice science fiction theme btw... chicks coding demos on my beloved commodore??) :P

Nostalgia

nice prod :-) i like storys in demos... much better than a lot of other demos here on pouet :)

Opss "obsoleet.sh: line 2: 6128 Segmentation fault LD_LIBRARY_PATH=bin bin/player obsoleet.d3m0"
anyway I remember this great demo =)

great

very nice!

The characters seem "a little bit" paralyzed, but it's a adorable prod anyway.

one of the demos i wont forget

it crashes while loading and looks a bit static, but it's nevertheless soooo nice :)

Obsoleet is one for the crowds, no doubt about that. I disagree with some saying it's for gamers though, I don't think your average CS-playing gamerpartygoer appreciates retro one lousy bit. Most likely it was voted by sceners. While it was not the best demo of the party I find the win acceptable.

There have been other demoscene history demos but this is the best one and does it in an original way also extending to more than just demoscene history. Anyone who has grown up with computers can appreciate the effort, showing a person growing up and crude machines changing towards the more advanced is simply a brilliant idea. Had they not made her a female, much of the critique would be moot and close to none of the charm lost.

The old effects are made to look good and the historical inaccuracies forgivable. Transitioning thru multiple time periods to the very end where it is suggested that this whole demo has been a work of the same girl is nice.

Sometimes it's OK to be popular and still manage to create art. I'm sure the charm in this will last for a while, because it never rested on technical merit.

crash here
XP SP2 + Athlon 64 + GTO 7900

windows+linux

nice

simply great

Im in love with this girl.

funny, entertaining and enjoyable demo with good music score.

very cheesy, but at the same time very entertaining. one of the few scene "story" based prods I actually enjoy. nice

I like this demo!

>Also the girl is unnecessarily large in the chest region when she's come of age, which I feel is just childishly sexist and otherwise typical in a bad way for the scene.

lol @sexist. i never understood what that's supposed to mean and why it's supposedly a bad thing

regarding the demo: i like the code on screen and yeah, the girl-growing-up concept is quite neat. i wouldn't exactly call it a "story" though.

great ending!!!

I just never had any fun watching it but credz for the effort.

I can't watch it anymore here because it crashes :P

The concept rules; unfortunately, the implementation does not. I can't watch it without becoming irritated.

sorry, i don't like this demo.

Just like Optimus, I can't get this to run on modern hardware/drivers/OS or whatever it is that it doesn't like... :/

I never liked this

Chick coders rule

watched it so often, now finally the thumb ;-) very great demo

fart fart fart

great

a tiiiiiiny bit slow in places, but still ownage

Visuals, models, music, are ok-ish.
But the plot makes it.

Hells yeah!

You can set the resolution in obsoleet.d3m0 from 640x480 to 1280x960, but it breaks the lighting and some effects... :(

titties & nostalgia FTW.

I think that this was the first demo I ever saw and I was lucky because this is still my favourite one :)

I just discovered that demo today, I liked it a lot, mostly because of the great soundtrack :D

I've seen and liked this demo when it was released. Somehow I've forgotten to thumb.

Fantastic concept!

piggy. titties?

very nice. love the nostalgia!

:)

Demo from the past still owning demos from the future. I mean it, where are such demos now?

Perfect, even today :D

overdue thumb is overdue

Awesome music, sequencing, direction, and modelling but... did no-one use a mouse in 2004? =P

mouse use is so 2013

Aww, damn, I love this so much <3

nice

Too cheesy.

Too blatant of a crowdpleaser. Well-executed, but the content is so meh.

Good demo and easy watching

One of THAT demos we deserve! Thank you!

pretty awesome :)

lovely lovely

Nice one.

Can confirm :)

very good

nah

woaw there used to be so much response here :) this is cdc material to me tho im gonna need lotsa gloops to doo all of it