Demo Scene

rounddodger · 24 Aug 2008 at 21:33

I did a bit of searching and didn't come across much so thought it was fair game for a thread!

For anyone who doesn't know the demo 'scene' has been around for donkeys years from C64, Amiga to the consoles and PC's of today and there are some cracking demos been made over the years- personally I love the Amiga scene with the likes of 9 Fingers and State of the Art etc as well as the newer stuff for accelerated Amigas, Starstuck etc. Even Sony has got on board by commissioning the Linger in Shadows demo for the PS3 by Plastic.

The PC demos obviously have the best visuals and some are just stunning and here are a few of my faves if anyone wants to give them a whirl.

PS. These can all be found at http://pouet.net

Comments/discussion welcome!!

Life Force (2007) Andromeda Software Development (ASD)

Stunning soundtrack and visual design, my favourite of all time.

Assembly 2007 Combined Demo Winner

195/95 (2005) Plastic

Plastic are the kings of shiny loveliness and this strange but cool demo doesn't dissapoint. Ramp up the AA on this baby!

Breakpoint 2005 PC Demo Winner

Debris (2007) Farbrausch

Stunning 177KB demo from farbrausch, amazing how they cram it all it.

Breakpoint 2007 PC Demo Winner

The Popular Demo (2003) Farbrausch

Such a cool demo.

Breakpoint 2003 PC Demo Winner

marc2003 · 24 Aug 2008 at 21:44

these things are pretty damned amazing. i saw this one called panic room posted on another forum the other day.....

http://www.scene.org/file.php?file=...y08/in64/panic_room_by_fairlight.zip&fileinfo

ExRayTed · 24 Aug 2008 at 21:52

marc2003 said:
these things are pretty damned amazing. i saw this one called panic room posted on another forum the other day.....

http://www.scene.org/file.php?file=...y08/in64/panic_room_by_fairlight.zip&fileinfo

Detected as a virus by Avast.

Memphis · 24 Aug 2008 at 21:53

Downloaded "Panic Room" from that site, tried to run it, and was instantly given a Trojan warning by Avast.

That'll be that then.

marc2003 · 24 Aug 2008 at 22:08

that would be a false positive then. but i fully understand if you don't want to run it.

edit: there's a link to it/comments on the site posted by the OP.....

http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=51125

seems avg doesn't like it either.

rounddodger · 24 Aug 2008 at 22:41

marc2003 said:
that would be a false positive then. but i fully understand if you don't want to run it.

edit: there's a link to it/comments on the site posted by the OP.....

http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=51125

seems avg doesn't like it either.

Can't get it to run, even with AVG turned off?

Duke · 24 Aug 2008 at 22:49

The tiny 64k demos on the PC are great. I remember the Amiga ones.. Jesus on E was good.

Amnesia · 24 Aug 2008 at 22:50

they take forever to launch

helmutcheese · 24 Aug 2008 at 22:51

I cant extract it, PC went mad and now feels slow need to reboot.

EDIT : ESET ESS did not like Winrar extracting that file.

benjo · 24 Aug 2008 at 22:51

Duke said:
The tiny 64k demos on the PC are great. I remember the Amiga ones.. Jesus on E was good.

Indeed it was :cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7PX3JAF_5Q

Final8y · 24 Aug 2008 at 23:05

memory said:
they take forever to launch

NP launching here on my 3Ghz phemon.

Amnesia · 24 Aug 2008 at 23:06

Final8y said:
NP launching here on my 3Ghz phemon.

that may depend on the demo too...some are pretty quick compared to others

helmutcheese · 24 Aug 2008 at 23:10

Plastic extracts without ESS going mad but it don't run, I tried XP-SP Compat Mode also.

Final8y · 24 Aug 2008 at 23:14

memory said:
that may depend on the demo too...some are pretty quick compared to others

Well i ran all the ones posted above & all launched quick.
except for life force that seemed not to like vista 64.

Amnesia · 24 Aug 2008 at 23:43

that didnt like vista32 or xp32 either

rounddodger · 24 Aug 2008 at 23:46

Hmmm, strange. I'm using XP 32bit and Life Force works perfectly. What graphics settings?

Amnesia · 25 Aug 2008 at 00:03

tried 1680 but no luck so lowered to 800 and it loaded a touch more.
or maybe it isnt loading its drawing but at an extremely slow pace.
its so slow i cant tell the difference

Dave85 · 25 Aug 2008 at 00:10

Lol none of these run for me in vista x64 tried compat but all fail

5punk3monk3y · 25 Aug 2008 at 03:02

for all the old amiga + atari guys out there

http://uk.youtube.com/results?search_query=dark+side+of+the+spoon&search_type=

anyone remember this one

http://www.cpu.lu/ulm/DSOTS.html

i have the orig on an old DD ST disk sitting behind me

just watched LifeForce and love it!

ran perfectly on vista64bit

Dave85 · 25 Aug 2008 at 05:33

Yeh doesnt sound like a demo problem supposedly if you have an ati card with a driver about 7.5 onwards then it wont work. Just download the vid and watch it.