Commodore 64
X – Marks the Spot
“Oh the irony, a demo from G*P themed around pirates” This demo was created and released at X’18 (where it finished 4th), it is a clever play on the theme of pirates and also the name of the demo party. The demo starts with a picture of Black Beard and one on his quotes and […]
Intros
Intros are a necessary step in everyone’s coding journey. Usually you’ll start with ripping music or character sets and designing a screen to say who ripped it and then next logical step is to design and code your own intro. This is where you take your first steps into scrollers, screen splits, raster bars (sometimes) […]
Memento Mori
As we are all aware the year 2020 has been possible the worst year in our time and i cannot remeber a previous year that even comes close, I think you would have to go back to the 2nd world war to find one With all the social restrictions that have been put in place […]
Delirious 11
The legendary Delirious demo series marks a welcome return of the legendary c64 coder ‘Raistlin’. The demo starts off with what I can only assume is actually Raistlin in bed back in 1992. It looks like he is enjoying his nap time a little too much as the year counter starts to click forward as […]
New Kid with A Breadbox (Case, October 1998) revised 2018
When I first wrote the following article some 20 years ago, the c64 should have been in its swan-song era, the Amiga was the machine to have and people were migrating in droves, myself included. However, as I read the article recently I realised that what I had written still rings true today, in fact […]