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• demotool Linux Windows Propulse Tracker 0.9.6.1
• "Propulse Tracker is an open source crossplatform Impulse/Schism Tracker clone designed for creating Amiga ProTracker compatible music modules in a familiar environment."
  
  A damn fine tool. I've used it a lot.
• rulezadded on the 2024-07-05 14:05:49
• 40k Amiga OCS/ECS A Murder Of Scrolls by Andromeda [web]
• Solid!
• rulezadded on the 2024-01-27 22:46:30
• 40k Amiga OCS/ECS Soil by Alcatraz [web]
• what others said and more.
• rulezadded on the 2024-01-22 15:57:42
• game Gameboy Advance GBA Microjam '23
• sim & the rest: if you liked this one, you should also check out Varooom 3D.
• isokadded on the 2023-11-02 11:35:53
• game Gameboy Advance GBA Microjam '23
• You better believe it! And not just some "GBA stuff", but a collective effort consisting of almost 30 microgames in the style of WarioWare.
• isokadded on the 2023-11-01 22:21:30
• demo Amiga OCS/ECS RULE 30 by Andromeda [web]
• To put it in a sober and less of a dick way, the music lacks energy and the lead sounds are very basic, even toyish, which reminds me of the cheap synthesizer demotunes back in the day - and the music in some of the old Andromeda Amiga demos, which lacked punch.
  
  This tune sounds like there's not much going on in the patterns apart from notes. It's mechanical even when it gets very melodic, and to be honest, catchy. I kind of get what Interphace is trying to do here, maybe having a bit more detail and character in handling those lead and bass instruments wouldn't work at all with the synthwave arrangement. It still comes off as lifeless. For example after the buildup and even changing the drum beat to double-time nothing really intensifies in the last part. There's no subtle changes in the pulse of the bass. Sounds like there's the same volume handling throughout and very little shaping of sounds to accentuate the rhythm. But again, it might be totally what Interphace is trying to do here and it just isn't my thing at all. To my ears it still sounds a bit undertracked, even "Karstenish" in terms of handling the samples, which the art of making .MOD music is mostly about. Not a bad tune though.
  
  Like I mentioned before, the kaleidoscopes look fantastic. This is the kind of effect that will always look appealing. You don't have to tell to the uninitiated what they're looking at or why it should be considered impressive, which is pretty rare in demos for older computers when you think about it. The same cannot be said on the isometric split screen which drags on for almost half a minute. Another similarly unfortunate pairing is the monochrome chaos zoomer or whatever and the colorful balls at the end of the demo.
  
  Archmage, who has made tons of really impressive graphics on the C64 during the last few years doesn't quite reach the same level when returning to the Amiga. The different dithering methods (horizontal lines, "chess board" of 2 different color schemes to blend them together) on the biomechanical third eye character with a hole on his forehead, already familiar from Archmage's C64 graphics, aren't that successful.
  
  The image itself of this rough and dirty looking fella seems visually out of place in a demo that has a mixture of simple and clean visual imagery, line vectors, isometric shapes, retrowave and all that. Looks more like a filler than a carefully placed image, even though it is some sort of a continuation to the title screen where the third eye is still intact, hinting at a narrative. Not very appealing image, this latter one, but it's ok... but hey, it's by Archmage so the standards are very high.
  
  The same can be said about the demo itself, because it's an Andromeda demo. Some unexpected goodness was missing apart from the fact that it was a comeback demo.
  
  That's why a piggy.
• isokadded on the 2021-07-11 16:57:11
• demo Commodore 64 Bromance by Bonzai
• Thumbs up for Laxity's programmed solos alone. What an amazing musician. Not that Drax is a slouch either. HVSC search for Drax: Number of SIDs found: 1016. Not a bad tune in the bunch. This man is our treasure.
• rulezadded on the 2021-07-11 03:17:59
• demo Amiga OCS/ECS Cortez by Melon [web]
• Shadow of the Gump.
• isokadded on the 2021-07-11 03:10:56
• demo Amiga OCS/ECS RULE 30 by Andromeda [web]
• Truly beautiful kaleidoscope effects. How about updating that Casio you've tormented us with since the 90's, Lord Interphace? And Archmage, that's your Amiga comeback after all those amazing C64 pictures, that poor man's Giger chap/crap with a hole on his head and an eye bubbling from his hand?
• isokadded on the 2021-07-11 03:00:34
• demo Amiga OCS/ECS Acid Trip by Melon [web]
• "WE (MACK & WALT) MADE THIS PICTURE TO SHOW WHAT
  RA/SANITY IS UNABLE TO DO...
  ANTI-DIGIT MODE NOT NEEDED..."
  
  among other things :)
• isokadded on the 2011-02-16 16:55:21