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• general:
• level: user
• personal:
• first name: Gergely
• last name: Zoltai
• portals:
• csdb: profile
• cdcs:
• cdc #1: Desert Dream by Kefrens
• cdc #2: Royal Arte 100% by Booze Design
• cdc #3: Stargazer by Orb [web] & Andromeda [web]

• demo Commodore 64 Desert Dream by Resource [web] & Chorus
• Thanks for the positive feedback. Really cool to see so much positive feedback. :) It also justifies somehow it worth the serious effort we put into this project. As for the motivation from my part behind the reamke, JAC! already told it perfectly. We didn't make this to cheaply win at Bp or something like that... I wouldn't care if Oxy wins with their demo they would deserve it.
  
  As for the trivial 'originality' critique, you all are right. We prepared for that since the beginning of this project and it glances off us easily. :)
  
  Anybody with a little knowledge about c64 coding can see that there were serious issues realising this demo. It wasn't like a trivial thing to do all these effects in a c64 trackmo with decent looking. Hollowman you're wrong, we were seriously concerned all the way during the process that we will fail with it, it wasn't trivial. 14 years or not it was an Amiga 500 demo, and 80% of the effects gave us serious problems. One of the biggest concern was to be able keeping the quick pace of displaying all effects without losing the timing to the music (30-40 different screens), since nearly all parts were quite demanding with memory usage. Doing effects like the blown up filled vector or realising the intro vector scene or the falling bricks transition effect were very hard to get over with. We will make a final more polished version with a readme file to the people who liked the present version and are interested about the obstacles we had to solve.
  
  @Dane, since you attacked 3 effects of mine, I have to respond in short:
  
  - X rotator+Jelly picture: going to the borders wasn't a probelm, but one have to consider the aspect ratio of the original picture and the visibility area of the effect. However the interlace mode I think is an improvement to hide the blocky resolution there and works well.
  
  - Zoomscroll: +H2K has better resolution yes, but one have to consider the Z movement. Look at the calm sinus of my version when the scroll approaches the minimal size, and compare with +H2K. This is due to my totally different approach realising the effect.
  
  - Chessboard bender: complaining about 8 pixels height difference is out of the point, since one have to consider the rastertime I left for depacking the next part (remember it's a trackmo). Notice the better looking and longer waves (I faked an 512 long sinus movement instead of standard 256) despite the resolution difference due to more accuracy. The every line d021 was intentionally avoided to have solid colors in every chessrow.
  
  All in all, It was very hard to ponder all possibilities and choose the seemingly best compromise for most effects...
  
  @Optimus: the Reflex balls were smaller (12*12) and have a fixed Y movement thus not having real 3d movements, so we decided to skip that approach. Our version has lower resolution and speed but has 24*24 big balls, transparency, clipping, and using a 80 pixels wide 4x4 fli mode (covering the fli bug as well). As I said it was a question of choosing the best compromise here too.
  
• isokadded on the 2007-04-14 16:42:57
• demo Windows fr-041: debris. by Farbrausch [web]
• Fascinating stuff.
• rulezadded on the 2007-04-13 21:41:14
• demo Windows 1995 by Kewlers [web] & mfx [web]
• A demo with soul.
• rulezadded on the 2006-08-09 01:49:17
• 4k Commodore 64 Stars and Stabbers by k2 [web]
• rulezadded on the 2006-07-07 17:05:54
• 64k Windows Memento by Conspiracy [web]
• Wonderful !
• rulezadded on the 2006-04-24 21:28:00
• demo MS-Dos/gus Dope by Complex [web]
• rulezadded on the 2006-02-22 12:54:10
• musicdisk Commodore 64 Star Flake by Maniacs Of Noise [web]
• Thanks all, for the feedback. :)
  
  ALiEN-AnTiTraX, yes, thanks for assigning to Maniacs of Noise, it was my fault missing that when creating the release.
  
• isokadded on the 2006-01-23 11:21:54
• diskmag Commodore 64 Attitude #09 by Oxyron [web]
• rulezadded on the 2005-12-13 14:17:51
• demo Commodore 64 Revolution by Chorus
• @entity
  
  Use latest WinVice version 1.17 and it will work fine. With the 1.16 version it indeed failed at that point for some unknown reason (with 1.15 and prior it worked fine as well).
  
  Find WinVice at:
  http://www.viceteam.org/
• isokadded on the 2005-11-05 00:10:18
• demo Amiga AGA Lethal Dose 2 by Faculty
• Great music!
  But where is Lethal Dose 1?
• rulezadded on the 2005-09-28 14:42:21