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our next talk is the scene now and then
it's a talk where we promise there will
not be a single
slide and it's an audio visual tour so
art um throughout the demo scene and
General speaker is Lord spread Point
Amigo y hi
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guys quick introduction uh next speaker
Lord is member of the 80s demos group
spread point was igga they have been
dormant for roughly 30 years but got
active again lately and have released a
couple of intros and demos on the Amiga
so let's accompany Lord
on his Audi visual trip through the demo
scene and welcome him with a huge round
of
applause
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okay okay I was uh promised that uh I
could program a key here and when I
pressed this uh light would go um off or
on now it's off let's see if it
works okay I put that on the key this uh
is a old intro from the 80s on the
commodora
Amiga and
um yeah it um is somehow related to the
beginning of the demo scene the demo
scene evolved from the cracker scene
from the home computers first evolved
like the commodora
64 the guys from the commodora 64 scene
gave me that jacket I should wear that
for the commodor c64 scene can you see
that I can't Weir it it's too hot in
here but uh Hail to the commodora
64 and um for me um it was also the
beginning on a Christmas Day I got a
present under the Christmas tree uh
which was a commodor
c64 and this was my uh second uh
computer before that I had a Atari FY
s2600 it was a a gaming console yeah
great and it had one kilobyte of uh
memory and you you could stick it to
your um children cassette recorder and
then do programming with a external
keyboard I have that yes and that was my
St but then the commodor 64 went under
my Christmas tree with a data set next
year I got the floppy disc drive
1541 and uh then yeah everything
changed
and what is what is the demo scene well
I I had this computer and there were
games and they were expensive and you
had to go to the shop and spend all your
pocket money or even more um and you
have uh had had all that games c64 100
games wow I can afford a half with my
pocket money and then um yeah curiosity
set in there were others uh at the
computer shop and uh we thought yeah
maybe we could copy these things and on
the kodor c64 it would was easily um
possible to do that you had to dump the
memory that was quite easily they um the
programmers later changed that with the
games because yeah they wanted
not uh pirated copies of uh the games
but that was a start we uh earned some
knowledge in programming and um also I
earned some knowledge in um English
which you here now it is danglish it is
a I I I speak uh English of a 11year old
boy learning uh English with Lang andite
dictionary to program that that damn
basic in commodor c64 it was in English
and yeah that's uh how my English comes
out
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here all
right thank you very much you're very
kind I can't see you but I think you are
still there that's a good sign um let's
get fancy now um I told you um where the
beginnings of the demo scene uh lie it
is in the in the cracker scene in the
home computer scene um and it evolved
slowly and and I take you now on a trip
um uh how all that happened and uh I
want a great sound experience for you so
now yeah I I press that key again you
will know what happens this is cool
huh
okay not so cool but we go on with
something very fresh and cool from the
demo scene enjoy
this
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woo
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oh
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he
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oh
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yeah thank you guys thank you guys um
this was a
demonstration um I think 200 kilobytes
big everything included code uh music
and graphics and um I chose this because
um yeah the guys from uh far R are still
active and also big fans of the chaos
Computer Club are you here far
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they tried
okay all right uh far not present but
okay um this this is a demo um which
runs on um
PC and um yeah that's uh literally what
the demo scene does it does demos yeah
and um these include um
code program with audio and Graphics so
to say that's the short version um I
have the long version also with me
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enjoy
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oh
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o k o
o o l
o okay you get the idea that's a
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demo and this demo was done with a
computer from the early 80s the
commodora Amiga Classic this thing runs
on a 68k processor it has uh around
let's say 7 mahz and um for channel
audio um it's a bit crunchy as you heard
but well I made the music I really enjoy
that kind of crunchy music a lot and um
yeah that was um a demo released on a
demo party what is
that I will tell you later I will show
you uh more stuff I'm I'm getting
excited I want to see what's up here in
the next
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thing so are we ready to
start Beam Team are you ready to
start
let let the coding
commence there we go the countdown has
started the programmers can
start so basically France versus Germany
ooh that never happened
before I'm never coment my fell group
member Kudo is here and um I'm really
second will Dr this hope for us it will
be really good he will own
France well we see next 95
yesterday we're both we
noted what the heck was that I I can
tell you this is a typical demo party I
I think I it was very dark but I
remember that place uh it's the Evac in
the brooken it's uh the revision yeah
it's one of the nicest uh demo parties
around and and it's always on the Easter
weekend yes and um you saw yeah the
atmosphere people sitting with computers
there doing their stuff preparing demos
maybe and um on the big screen before
the Big Screen there were two
programmers sitting left and right like
a battle and this uh is uh a discipline
of the demos scene it's called uh life
coding they code on the Fly
against each other and after a time
limit um they should uh yeah achieve a
demo scene effects and um yeah the um
people vote who have the best effects
that's it but yeah uh let's go even
deeper I show you something really old
from my shat yeah treasure
chest
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the
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he
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okay okay I will come to the point some
day but not yet um this was a classic
commodora 64 you remember the guys and
so on ah yes and um commodora c64 is
still very active they um tickle the
last things out of the commodora c64
which is very very old computer and um
um this was an intro by eagle soft and
uh yeah these were crackers from the USA
and I wanted to show you where the demo
scene comes from they come from these
guys and also
from this
guy
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oh God what is this um I can tell you
with a few words this is uh a trainer
you know we we young guys um getting the
latest games um able to crack them and
then yeah the games were maybe horrible
and they were very difficult so um we
used our
programming skills to alter this program
and uh Ro trainer you had then not just
three lives you had uh unlimited lives
which was really great yeah so and um
these these intros um evolved even
further into Bigger Productions the
cracker wanted to have the best crack
intro and um there there was kind of
competition there then and um also the
demos um or the intros in that time were
used as um
communication uh
things let's see it yeah the scroll text
very important Let's uh check that
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out
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la
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could you all read
that all right so the message is clear
behind that unit a production um the
sound uh yeah legendary wrote written by
my friend this and uh there were only
three members in Unit A but they were
very able um these guys um wrote uh a
lot of copy programs themselves and um
therefore they say um this
on Blade Runner here because he stall
the routines of uh one of the copy
programs um these guys uh maybe I I tell
a secret now but I don't know I don't
care after all this years um these guys
wrote uh x copy on
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Amiga
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yeah you see the quality evolves from
that thing that looks quite nice already
it's getting better I promise well you
saw the far thing you know where the
thing is heading okay and um
um a lot of effort was put in that
intros which became better
demonstrations and um um the the art got
better in them you know all the the um
young people doing code um music
Graphics they trained and um yeah um
they got better and um I I show you now
a intro I picked for a certain hacker
here in the room because when uh he
hears the tune of the next uh intro he
starts to cry and this guy is a really
mean guy he he he hacks the CIA or
whatever and but he cries with the next
one
enjoy
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do I hear sniveling
somewhere no okay he kept everything
together maybe he doesn't want to get
known all
right well um you get the idea this this
uh music was very hard shaking it it's
something and you see the scroll text
it's rotating it's weird huh and uh this
this guy from paranoimia wow they are
the leader at least they claim it well
uh they never were but okay uh sorry to
uh uh Rudy and Subzero I love you really
no problem and um ah let's let's go on
um with uh something more demos scene
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yes
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a
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n
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oh yeah I really love this one that's by
our C
Mike hello Mike I love
you it's amazing it's a mega production
a lot of scrollers as you can see it's
uh wow it's uh even today it's wow I I
really love it um until
now now I love it even more
okay this thank you thank you guys
you're so kind thank you thank you very
much ladies and gentlemen so kind um I I
showed you this also because uh this is
uh a point where the first demos emerged
this is a demo well we could use that
for crack intro yes but it stand for
itself and it was just a demonstration
of uh scroller many scrollers um uh
rotating 3D Bops can we say that yes and
the 3D spread Point logo which is also
on my t-shirt I have to show it for my
demo group here it is uh hi spread Point
can you say that hi spread
point oh my my day is made thank you
very
much we we go
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on well
yeah yeah uh we go on and uh we um go
into the depth how the demos um were
made this is a
interesting uh story coding with zika
68k sampler music with soundtracker
written by cast naski and graphics with
Electronic Arts Delux paint delix paint
That's the grandfather of Photoshop shop
if
you want to know all right I I show you
first the soundtracker uh yeah this is
soundtracker all right yeah four
channels Amiga also you see I'm a MGA
guy and uh yeah um yeah this is it it's
loading from from dis you know um sample
name that's the samples and they were on
ST1
they sounded like
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that yeah you see how it works um the
notes on the row here and um there are
um um commands for uh volume and stuff
like that
yeah okay first soundtracker pile
version
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yeah now meet the grandfather of
Photoshop well almost every aspect of
the program has been enhanced uh we've
got the ability to paint and overscan
which gets rid of the black border
around the picture you use extra half
bright mode is amga mode that gives you
32 additional darker colors and there's
a new font request T which lets you load
color fonts and reassign the font font
directory M uh there's new fill and
paint modes but the most important
feature I think the one I'm going to
demonstrate today is the animation
capability this I'm going to play an
animation that was created entirely in
Deluxe paint as you can see I can create
three-dimensional Transformations move
any bit mapped object through three
dimensions um and I'm going to show you
interactively how you can actually
create animations little B
uh this is still a pain back in the days
in the ' 80s this was really
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great okay now to some point uh which
might interest most of you the coach how
was it done I show you um um um how uh
demo gets assembled in zika assem by big
a from phenomena also amiga
yeah df1 was a
floppy zika is the zika the
Asser
yeah oh yeah and that sea was improved
by someone from the Demoin um PRX of
cits and uh he later wrote uh asm1 and
other stuff good guy good coder yeah
here you see some uh do you see yeah you
see some some zika source code yeah pure
68k assembl I love it yeah oh and here
it's a command line it says a which
means assemble and this will take a time
so I can dance for you
now uh
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no
uh yeah finished uh um y means uh
loading external files like module like
graphic and stuff
here
okay I still want to dance uh I show you
a demo with dancers
later
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okay guys uh someone showed me a sign I
have five minutes left so I will speed
up now because I want to tell you also
about
the demine nowadays okay ah this is the
recent Dayo but I show it only very
short because 5
minutes okay um this was Black Lotus
demo very good one please uh look it up
uh it's really great and takes 10
minutes which I don't have anymore I'm
sorry for that black lotus you don't
throw stones at the next r
uh as a bonfire at me please okay good
um what is this oh yeah very important
um teach yourself Demos in 14 days um
there's a demos who put a lot of effort
um to um tell you about the demo scene
how you can be a demo scener may be it a
musician a coder or graphic whatever it
will everything will be told uh yeah in
this
course teach yourself demonstrated 40
days okay in the background there's a 4K
Demo it means 4 kilobytes for all of
that stuff you see it's amazing uh so I
have to speed up but you you think it's
great right 4 kilobytes yeah thank
you
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okay um demo scene releases can be
divided into certain categories we make
that very
quick I I quoted that audio reactive you
see that when I do that my Starfield
moves it's it's cool it's about
music with a fake electronic light
show
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so if you love music you joined the demo
all right you can do demo music with
tracker and whatever you like okay next
thing next that's the graphics if you do
Graphics you join the demo scam because
you love making graphics and want to see
that in the demo maybe yes and in the
background I show you H this this is one
of the most used demop funds ever from
1988 by Ming of the staff
runers um um yeah night Haws later and
it was so good because you see that once
single color in in in the inside U you
could fill that with the Amiga copper
list with
4,6 96 colors it was great okay and uh
um yeah next thing next yeah we are
talking about scrollers then I
guess
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yeah you get it it's about squex that
was a great SC back in the days and um
yeah um let's move on there other great
things like cubes Demas love cubes
filled unfilled textured yeah that's it
I show you
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some
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I really have to speed up I have one
minute left for everything I will make
it
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the
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thank
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you thank you guys thank you so much uh
ladies and gentlemen as you maybe have
uh noticed we just received in the now
time ah good that is the demos now
thank you for these very nice closing
words and that impressive final demo to
Lord spread Point Amiga unfortunately
there's no time for Q&A for this talk um
please give a huge round of applause to
L spread Point
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amigo
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