eegad Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 Calling for suggestions for the best graphics&sound demos... I'm looking to put together an 8M flashcart with a bunch of Atari demos. All recommendations for this should load as files (.xex, etc) or single-load disk images (no multi-loading, because I want to put a bunch of them, selectable from a standard main flashcart menu). Also would prefer demos that run on 64k machines (stock 800xl), rather than requiring expanded memory. And finally, works on NTSC; doesn't require PAL. Much thanks for any input! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w1k Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 (edited) hmm agregat, alien demo, alpha, ander, Animkomials Meets Boris Valleyo, annael, Ars Mori, asciiart, atari world, Atari Magic '87, Atari Graphics Demonstrations, azz kick, bash, basix, cogito, control, drunk chesboard, digi synth, dont read, ergo bibamus, extract, flove, fucke vocabulary, hellix, Chistoria pewnego pecetofca, Chuck Norris Know 6502, igor, isolatio, liquid, mr6502final, np, numen, plo, pure, recall, recycle, running cow, shit, silly things, taku-ardo, the asskisiel, the asskickers, reflect, shrine, snowman, the top 1-3, timekeeper, too hard 1-666, total daze, trial, tricks, tune, twirlee, ultra, Unexpected, unfused, vaxeen, vengeance, vent, vidlove, x-demo, x-files, z, zero.. and many and many invitations.. and.. dont forgot the best demo ever - prototype Edited October 16, 2011 by w1k 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiassofT Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 Also don't forget the Self Demo. It's also quite suitable for diagnostic/test/utility carts - "Green won, Memory is OK!" :-) so long, Hias Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grig Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 Best demo IMHO is the walking robot/spaceship. I don't know what it's called. Great graphics and sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vandal968 Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 Best demo IMHO is the walking robot/spaceship. I don't know what it's called. Great graphics and sound. It's called CESDEMO. I remember some very short, but cool digitized music. There was "You really got me" by Van Halen and something by the Kinks, I also remember a music thing that played "Urgent" by Foreigner, it was awesome back in 1984 or so. I wonder what it sounds like now, anyone remember these? Still got them? There was also a music player that played "Lindy" and some others. I'd love to hear these again if anyone can post them. cheers, c Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 The Van Halen thing was nothing special, somewhat short, not very good quality and it turned the screen off during playback. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 I remember both digi-"demos" but the quality was not good imho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 Is there a file version of Neumen? I can only find .atr versions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox-1 / mnx Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 I remember some very short, but cool digitized music. There was "You really got me" by Van Halen VanHalen (digi).xex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 My "have to watch" list: 48h Asskicker Atari Home Computers Boing Demo Balls forever Ballsong Bitter Reality CES Demo Control Cool Emotion Das Omen Drunk Chessboard Fucked Vocabulary Halle Project Demo(s) Hobby Tronic 89 Hobby Tronic 90 Impossible but real Joyride Lemmings Maze More! Numen Overmind Pure QLKEE Rabbacan Recall Reditus Sheol The Shrine The Top Demo(s) Top Cars Total Daze Twistever Unplugged Veronika Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 I attach two zip files with my preferred demos so you can test them. Demos 1.zip Demos 2.zip PS Sorry, I didn't read your message, so in my folders you'll find demos for expanded machines too. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
potatohead Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 and.. dont forgot the best demo ever - prototype I had not seen this one. Huge lols! Thanks for mentioning it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 I remember those digitized song demos, they were awsome back then, considering no one thought it possible on the lowly A8, there were also a couple Beatles digi-demos, one was 'Let it Be.' But the reality of the sound quality was probably on a par with AM radio on a home made transistor radio like one would make with the old electronic experiment kits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 Best demo IMHO is the walking robot/spaceship. I don't know what it's called. Great graphics and sound. The reason I like this demo is that it is so OLD and still good. But you really have to watch other demo's to see that your Atari is capable of much much more things. The other golden oldie (The flying swan) is also cool in this category. It's old... very old... so these demo's give me the feeling: "Ah... I should have showed these demo's to my non-atari friends years ago" ... but again: there are so many much better demo's. A very recent demo is written by Peter.Dell (JAC) and it is called Silly Things (google that!) Another very cool demo is the megademo SHAKE! ... I also like the demo's made by Our 5oft. There is this fabulous Arnhem 1993 meeting demo... A nice little piece is the Little Color Demo written by HTT! ... it's small... it's little (doh)... but it's GREAT! Check it out! Marius Demo's are my favorite part of the Atari hobby. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 (edited) and.. dont forgot the best demo ever - prototype I had not seen this one. Huge lols! Thanks for mentioning it. If you want to show the C64 is the better computer, you have to show this one. Unbelievable crap of code, wasting 1MB memory for nothing. Look what The C64 can do with Megabytes of RAM.... It's 16MB or RAM, but look how long it's been going through. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbpsDRtwmxo The demo was also an attack towards me, and ended up an epic fail. Edited October 18, 2011 by emkay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 Luckily , we have the Demo "Impossible but real" available, using 320K. Doing 256 colour animations, and the 2nd part plays a digi track while rotating a cube. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmel_andrews Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 There is only ONE DEMO That is NUMEN (but i hav'ent seen a version that works on a stock 800xl, only memory expanded A8's) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
potatohead Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 See? LOLZ :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orpheuswaking Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 My favorite Digitized demo is one of the Hobbytronic demos that has Zoolook by Jean Michel Jarre... Love it!! When you get your cart image together, please share it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
José Pereira Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 (edited) Cool Emotion seems to work in 64Kb.: Cool Emotion (s1,v1).atr Cool Emotion (s2,v1).atr Edited October 23, 2011 by José Pereira Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 @José Pereira Yeah. Cool Emotion is still one of my favorite demo's. In fact: it was the FIRST Mega Demo I saw after an Atari break between 1990 and 1994. In 1995 Fox-1 sent me some disks, and Cool Emotion was one of them. I fired up the Atari because Fox-1 wrote that it was worth looking. OMG I was AMAZED by the quality of that demo... I never thought that Atari 8bit could do such things (and after Cool Emotion there came much other fabulous things). Yes... Cool Emotion is one of my favorites. I love the part where all kind of txt patterens are scrolling over the screen. it's on the backside I believe. And ofcourse the green plasma part, and the "Heal the World" theme... yes it's great. But ontopic: I am afraid the Topic Starter needs file versions of demo's for his cart... But I think he should watch and listen Cool Emotion anyway!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 Authors and release date are important so I attach again my preferred demos folder, now with filenames containing those infos (infos taken from excellent Fandal's website). I need infos regarding 12 demos; any help would be appreciated. Demos 1.zip Demos 2.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eegad Posted October 26, 2011 Author Share Posted October 26, 2011 First, thanks for the recommendations. I've been slowly d/l and looking through them little by little. Second, I'm trying to track down a demo from the late 80's that was my favorite at the time. I remember it being called "the awesome demo", I think maybe it was from germany.....'the acorn group' is sticking in my mind also. In any case, it was a disk featuring maybe 6 or 8 demos, one was a cool kaleidoscope that had "house of the rising sun" music playing, another featured a cartoony band playing instruments while the song "major tom" was playing. another was some sort of dripping faucet. Anybody else remember this? Maybe it's called something else? Where can I d/l it??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orpheuswaking Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 It sounds very familiar, especially the house of the rising sun part. If I had it, it would have been on one of the Page 6 magazine PD disks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox-1 / mnx Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 (edited) That's a "Compy Shop" demo, done by Peter Sabath. The original was a 130XE boot disk, which was later modified to run on 64KB systems and later again hacked to separate files. Edit: added 130XE ATR Compy Shop Graphic Demo II (Peter Sabath).zip Edited October 26, 2011 by Fox-1 / mnx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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