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• cdc #1: paimen by Coma
• cdc #2: Unshaped by Masters Of Electric City
• cdc #3: Number One/Another One by Carillon & Cyberiad [web] & Fairlight [web]
• cdc #4: sjasmplus

• demo ZX Spectrum manifesto by Thesuper
• @Oswald, I know some of your very impressive work for C64. However, I cannot help but think that your remark about "many of these effects could have been done realtime" is unfair. There is a price to pay for any real time effects: precalc times, higher memory requirements, lower frame rates, reduced effective resolutions, lesser sophistication of the resulting imagery etc etc. So, when you are saying things like "many effects could have been done realtime" and at the same time "pretty awesome design", I end up thinking that you treat "design" as some kind of separate entity from what is shown on the screen 75% of the time (OK, 50% of the time in this particular demo).
  
  Maybe this is not the right time and place to discuss these things here and I am sure they have been discussed to death before. However, in my personal opinion, if "classic" demo platforms like ZX Spectrum are to compete with the modern demo platforms in terms of the resulting imagery, one must become a lot more pragmatic about ideals like "fully realtime effect", whatever the hell it means anyway.
• isokadded on the 2014-07-21 14:56:53
• demo ZX Spectrum manifesto by Thesuper
• @mad, no, ZX Spectrum does not have any hires modes. Only various kinds of "enhanced" clones have such modes. When assessing the technical side of things, please also take into account that "Manifesto" packs all of the presented content into less than 200Kb and you do not have to deal with "pre-calc" and "decrunching" of any kind.
• isokadded on the 2014-07-21 12:37:17
• demo Windows XAOC by Bon^2 [web]
• Very nice demo! I watched it in a terrible rush in early June and thought I did not quite "get" it. However, upon reflection, some of the scenes and some of the attitude definitely sipped into my own work. The only thing I disliked was the dancing bunny :)
• rulezadded on the 2014-07-20 08:56:39
• 256b ZX Spectrum Squares by g0blinish
• Very good-looking effect, although the sound is slightly annoying.
• rulezadded on the 2014-07-14 01:55:44
• demo ZX Enhanced Rubicon by Hacker VBI
• The power of FPGA config by TS-Labs has been understood for a while now, but this is perhaps the first demo to properly illustrate the demomaking potential of the platform. Good pacing, good flow, subtle digital sound effects, great tune and nice relaxed feeling overall. The Rubicon has been crossed.
• rulezadded on the 2014-07-13 23:52:03
• demo ZX Spectrum Aquatic by Gemba Boys
• I like the smooth nature of this demo, how the ocean waves at the background almost never stop and how the oldschool effects are given new meanings by re-thinking them in the context of the chosen concept. Low key, but high on design, pacing, transitions and overall sense of style.
• rulezadded on the 2014-07-13 23:42:22
• demo ZX Spectrum manifesto by Thesuper
• There is a walking man in every thesuper demo. This man goes where no man stepped before. This is a comic-styled demo with funny jokes, but thesuper are dead serious. Why make demos? is it to show proficiency of coders? the talent of artists and musicians? or is it something a bit bigger? and if it is, why do we care about the stuff under the bonnet quite so much? Thanks guys, this demo rules big time.
  
  My end is opened.
• rulezadded on the 2014-07-13 19:15:31
• demo Windows Beta by Still [web]
• One of my all-time favourite demos.
• rulezadded on the 2014-07-08 22:11:20
• 32k Windows 25 by Censor Design [web]
• This intro promises a lot without breaking a sweat. Sometimes less IS more.
• rulezadded on the 2014-07-04 00:22:27
• demo Amiga AGA Smoke Bomb by Ozone
• @at0m, wow, thanks, I knew my youth was wasted watching wrong stuff! :)
• isokadded on the 2014-07-02 21:41:30