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A news not directly related to Amstrad CPC. It's about Quinine, a PC demo of 4Kb by Optimus6128, well known on the Amstrad CPC scene, for his demos and SymbOS.

Trick or treat ! Well today it's not about an Amstrad CPC demo, but about a ZX Spectrum demo called Outerloop by thesuper, release at the DiHalt 2013 meeting at the start of July. It seems a nice demo to me (sound included).

You will find an interview of NoRecess on OrdiRetro about his latest Phortem Amstrad CPC demo (french only, google translation of the interview here).

A nice birthday gift, a new Amstrad CPC(+) demo : Phortem by Condense (NoRecess).

You can see this demo in plain Amstrad CPC version (see below) or in CPC+ version on Youtube.

Still Rising by Vanity got the second place at the oldschool demo competition of the Revision 2013 demo party.

Revision 2013 will take place in Saarbrücken (from 29/03 to 01/04).

A little group of CPC users will be there (Offset, Toms, Eliot, maybe Grim, Rouquemoute, Hicks and others).

The next Vanity demo will be presented saturday night, in the oldskool category : Batman ending.

Mind in Motion, an Amstrad CPC 15 Ko dentro written in 3 days and released at Forever 14 by Software Failure in 2013. Code, graphics and music by Ham/SFL, Arkos Tracker Music player by Targhan and Grim/Arkos. It needs a 64 Ko CPC.

Yet another plasma is a new Amstrad CPC demo in 2012 by ... Logon System.

Inspired by the Batman forever demo, here is an intro/demo by CRTC and 3LN : Sugarlumps, with a music by Mr_Lou.

Glory Holes, an Amstrad CPC demo got the 1st place at the ReSeT#8 meeting (Coutances).

Main code by Krusty/Benediction, player byGrim/Semilanceata, music by Tom&Jerry/GPA. Graphics by Grim/Semilanceata, Beb/Vanity, Ced/Condense and Voxfreax/Benediction.

Asm sources are included inside the archive.

And the winners are :

• graphic : Rexbeng
• demo : Krusty, graphics by Grim, Beb, Ced and Voxfreak, music by Tom et Jerry, for Glory holes
• music : Pulkomandy

All entries will be available later.

NoRecess is still working on a secret project since last december, about at 40% completion, which should be available for next xmas.

In the mean time, you can go on his web site to read an interview of Prodatron - SymbiosiS, the author of demoes and the Amstrad CPC multi-task GUI SymbOS.

Last week-end at Revision demoparty, demosceners have pushed further the limits of what can be done in a single 64kb executable file. Using extensive procedural techniques and compression : see Gaia Machina on Youtube.

Waiting for the same thing to happen on Amstrad CPC !

Wake up is the latest Amstrad CPC demo by Benediction and Sector One.

It was written by :

• DMA-SC/Sector One (sfx)
• Eliot/Benediction (code)
• Exin/Benediction (gfx)
• Krusty/Benediction (code)
• McKlain (sfx)
• Supersly/Les sucres en morceaux (cat art)
• Voxfreax/Benediction (gfx)

A new Amstrad CPC demo by the Dirty Minds group : Wolfenstrad, written by Optimus, graphics by Voxfreax and music by Sice.

You can download the Wolfenstrad demo here or on Pouet. You can watch it on Youtube.

This demo was shown at the FOReVER XIII demo competition. It uses a wolfenstein 3D like motor, already shown more than one year ago on Youtube.

It was prgrammed in C with SDCC but also in Z80 assembly.

The shortest Amstrad CPC demo by Arteffect is only 0 byte :

border 17
call &12
call &14

I let you see the result of this demo on Youtube.

Nyan cat is an internet meme, referring to an animated gif of a cat with the body of a cherry Pop-Tart flying through space, leaving a rainbow trail behind the cat; or to a video of the animated ?.GIF?, set to a remix of the song "Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!",[1] or to any of several Nyan Cat based games.

It's now on Amstrad CPC, with the music adpated by John McKlain and the code by Demoniak (just for fun !).

Beware the Amstrad CPC Nyan Cat video on Youtube isnt the last version available (current version is 3).

If you cant read the french forum, here is the same thread on CPCWiki's forum.

Just copy this one line of basic code by Demoniak and paste it in WinApe in the File Menu (or Ctrl + F11, or with any other Amstrad CPC emulator. Just for fun, like the Nyan Cat.

10 MODE 0:e=-1.3:FOR y%=0 TO 199:d=-2.4:FOR x%=0 TO 159:z=0:i=0:a%=0:WHILE a%<15 AND (z*z+i*i)<4:s=(z*z)-(i*i)+d:r=(2*i*z)+e:z=s:i=r:a%=a%+1:WEND:PLOT x%*4,y%*2,a%:d=d+0.0215:NEXT:e=e+0.013:NEXT

P.S. : in the general settings of WinApe, click on display every 1 frame and Turbo Mode, or you may have to wait a bit...

P.P.S : the second image is another basic source (more than 1 line) by Tronic-GPA.

Download (click below on the source) Food for my plus volume 1 by Hermol with 2 nice CPC+ screenshots.

A new Amstrad CPC demo has been showed at the Evoke 2011 demo party by Benediction et Brainstorm (Krusty, Voxfreak and Ultrasyd) : Bloc us.

Here are the results of the 4 contests of the ReSeT #0 meeting (and soon they will be available for download) :

• demo : Krusty with the demo Les experts à Coutances
• 4 Ko intro : Krusty with Still the best
• graphics : Rahow with LittleDGirl (on CPC+)
• music : McKlain with Take Off

See below for the photo of Krusty the winner (on the left), and Beb (on the right) who made a graph for the demo Les experts à Coutances.

Size doesnt matter by SuperSly, oh really o.O ?

Amstrad Expo is no more, but rejoice as ReSeT #0 is the new name of the Amstrad meeting organized by the tireless Eliot.

As usual you can expect a warm welcoming, good food, not much sleep (except if you are a sissy and use a bed), 4 competitions :

• demo : runnable on CPC6128 or 6128 Plus, without any extension
• 4 Ko intro : runnable on CPC6128 or 6128 Plus, without any extension. Maximum size is 4 Ko (4096 bytes)
• graphics : all formats/modes are allowed. The entry must be submitted with its viewer program runnable on CPC or Plus
• music : any executable music on CPC or Plus. The entry must be submitted with its player. No size limit

CPC Hardware will be given for free at the party-place: monitors, keyboards, floppy-drives, floppy-discs... All the parts from CPCParts.net will be available to repair and upgrade your CPC with the help of hardware specialists.

The ReSeT Party will take place from Friday 24th (10:00) to Sunday 26th of June 2011 (18:00) at Foyer des Jeunes Travailleurs in Coutances. The price is 11 euros per day for the entrance, drinks and food. You can book a double room at the party place for 20 euros per night.

Please use the ReSeT #0 site to register if you intent to come, thanks in advance.

I advise you to download the Batman Forever demo from Pouet. Or you could could look at this Batman Forever demo on Retropower.eu.

CPC Scene moves to http://pushnpop.net/, update your bookmarks.

Bloids1k by Optimus (Dirty Minds) is a 1 Kb demo (1 effect, no sound) release for the Euskal Party 18 in July 2010.

You will be able to read the Break Point 2010 report by Hicks on CPCScene. It's a demo meeting in Germany where the Amstrad CPC was present :

• demo : From Scratch by Vanity, got 3rd spot (public choice category),
• music : Fairy by Zik (Futurs), a music played with an alpha version of a SID player, got 11th spot,
• freestyle graphism : Soleil Vert by Supersly (les sucres en morceaux), got 13th spot.

You can download Soleil vert by Supersly (les sucres en morceaux), a graphic made for the Breakpoint 2010 meeting. By the way, Soleil vert is the french name of the science-fiction film Solyent Green with Charlton Heston in 1973. A very good film, I recommend seing it if you didnt yet.

This picture uses flipping to get 31 shades of green (CT65 monitor).

CPC-Power is the Amstrad program database made by (but not only) Kukulcan and Loïc Daneels. You will find there databases of games, archives (documents like the documentation of CPC), Gamebase CPC, ads, and lately they added an Amstrad CPC demos database. One future feature for this site is to add the demos to my own database, but I will have to find the time for this.

XMAS 2009 is an intro by CMP (code), DevilMarkus (graphism) et Hermol (music conversion).

I am sad to say that NoRecess hasnt been always faithful to the Amstrad CPC, he has also made a demo in 2007 for the Sony PSP : Recession maxidemo.

X-mas 2008 is an Amstrad CPC+ demo released in December 2008 by Impact.

Phat is a demo by Norecess released in July 2008 for Amstrad CPC+, coded in C with the Z88dk C compiler.

Though you can see a video of Phat on Youtube, it will be better to use a real Amstrad CPC or an emulator.

Phat 2 is a demo by Norecess released in September 2008 for Amstrad CPC+, coded this time in Z80 assembler.

Boules et bits is a demo by Vanity (Hicks and Beb) released in September 2006 for Amstrad CPC, sound by Tom & Jerry. It's a nice demo featuring 42 bouncing balls.

It's an answer to Maurice aime les bobs by Megachur and Super Sylvestre which featured 26 balls in June 2006

Maurice aime les bobs was itself an answer to Garcimor aime les balls by Ramlaid (Arkos - Mortel) which featured 20 balls in September 2004.

CPC Meuuuhting 2008 is an Amstrad CPC+ demo made for the meeting which took place at Coutances (France) during the 11-13th April 2008 :

• Iron's part : gfx by Iron, music by Sice
• Plissken' part : code by Plissken, gfx by Ced, music by Pulkomandy
• Grim's part : gfx by Grim, music by Napo
• Kris's part : gfx by Kris, music by Napo
• Supersly's part : code by Targhan, gfx by Supersly, music by Targhan

ASM Intro 1 is an Amstrad CPC+ demo by Roudoudou/Flower Corp. released in May 2008, the final version of a demo he made earlier of a mask with a phong effect.

Larsen is an Amstrad CPC+ demo by OFE released in December 2007.

Synergy is a french Amstrad CPC+ demo by AsT / Impact (code), AsT and Iron (graphics), Scavenger (music).

Though you can see a video of Synergy on Youtube, it will be better to use a real Amstrad CPC or an emulator.

Synergy is a french Amstrad CPC demo by CMP / Impact. Type RUN"synergy2.koh for a cheat part

The video of Synergy 2 on Youtube has audio/video synchronization problems FYI.

Allergy is a french Amstrad CPC+ demo by Semilanceata.

You can see a video of Allergy on Youtube, but it's better to use a real Amstrad CPC or an emulator.

From Scratch is a french Amstrad CPC demo by the Vanity demo group (Hicks and Beb) with sound by Tom & Jerry, a 6 mn multipart demo needing a CRTC 1 to run due to hardware tricks, also disable "Plus PPI emulation" if used with the WinAPE emulator (Go Settings then General).

Though you can see a video of From Scratch on Youtube, it will be better to use a real Amstrad CPC or an emulator.

Sappy is a french Amstrad CPC+ demo by the Semilanceata group, released in January 2007.

You can see a video of Sappy on Google Video.

Arome Tomate is a new Amstrad CPC demo by Overlanders : Candy (code), Beb (logo), Barjack (font) et Tom & Jerry (music).

Hate Beats is a demo released in October 2007 for Amstrad CPC+ by Ukonx, code by Power, code divers by Deemphasis, original graphics by Unison/Ozane, modified graphics by Grim (Semilanceata) and music by Deemphasis.

Ukonx is a french demo group, created in 1992, programming first on Amiga then on PC.

You can see a video of Hate Beats on Youtube.

Pheelone is a new Amstrad CPC demo by Norecess (code), Ced (graphisme) and Targhan (sound). This demo needs 128 Kb memory, and has been programmed with Small Device C Compiler v2.9.0.

You can see a video of Pheelone on Youtube.

Killmax by OFE is the winning demo of the Amstrad expo 2009 meeting. The sense of humor of OFE is awful, that's why you will like the demo.

You can see a video of Killmax on Youtube (beware for a better sound run the .DSK in WinApe with a 44 Khz setting or on a real Amstrad CPC).

ZeroTeam is a ZX Spectrum demo group. Though they just released an Amstrad CPC demo : cpctro.