Archives of Genesis8 Amstrad Page from 1999 to 2012 about demos

Logon's run - 3D meets the aging bits by Overflow, making-of

As it was previously stated, the Logon's run - 3D meets the aging bits demo making-of by Overflow is available on NoRecess.

Source : CPCRulez's forum

An Amstrad CPC 4k intro by Krusty (Benediction) showed at Revision 2017 : Wunderbar

Krusty (Benediction) showed his Wunderbar 4k intro at the Revision 2017 meeting.

Source : Octoate

Logon's run - 3D meets the aging bits, an Amstrad CPC demo by Logon System

Logon's run - 3D meets the aging bits par Logon System is their last demo released this week-end lors during the Revision 2017 meeting.

And for the live video live at the Revision 2017 meeting, it's here with the reactions of the public (posted by Octoate).

Source : Twitter

BDCIron is testing Great Gurianos, Addams Family et Big'O'Full demo, and more in another video

BDCIron is testing Amstrad CPC games : Great Gurianos and Addams Family, and also a demo : Big'O'Full demo.

See the previous news for more details about Great Gurianos.

In his latest video (24th February) BDCIron is testing the following games :

• Buggy Boy
• Carlos Sainz
• Chevy Chase
• Continental Circus
• Miami Cobra GT
• Power Drift
• Super Monaco GP
• Turbo Cup
• Twin Turbo V8
• Wacky Races
• Potsworth & Co
• lets Go !
• the demo Points Barres

Source : Youtube

A new interview on NoRecess : Epsilon (Power System, Arkos)

A new interview is available on NoRecess : Epsilon (Power System, Arkos).

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Some news by No Recess (Condense)

Condense is working on its new demo since 2 years already, which will be available only for the revision 2018 !

Also, a making-of for the next demo by Overflow (Logon System) will be published on Condense web site. The demo will be available for Revision 2017.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Fading colors on Amstrad CPC by Sylvestre (Sucres en morceaux)

After the article about calibrating the Amstrad CPC monitor by Sylvestre (Sucres en morceaux), here is a new article about fading colors.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Barbar, a new Amstrad CPC+ intro by Benediction

After the 30 Years Amstrad Megademo, Benediction has released for Sundown 2016 : Barbar, a new intro for Amstrad CPC+.

No emulator, no real CPC+ ? Then check Barbar on Youtube.

30 Years Amstrad Megademo is available

The 30 Years Amstrad Megademo is available right there and on Pouet.

I was able to see it yesterday at the Reset Meeting. It is nice.

Parts are written by Benediction, Dirty Minds, Futurs, GPA, Pulpo, Shinra and Vanity.

Source : CPCWIKI's forum

After Batman Forever, Battro by Batman Group

After Batman Forever, Battro is a cracktro by Batman Group, with music by McKlain.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

NoRecess : HxC Manager v3.1 for 464/664 and an interview of Thriller (Cadjo Clan)

Available on NoRecess : a new version of HxC Manager forr 464/664 and an interview of Thriller (Cadjo Clan) a demomaker.

Source : NoRecess

Superhop, a 4th Amstrad CPC intro by gOblinish (Dmitry Krapivin) in 512 bytes

Superhop is the 4th Amstrad CPC intro written by gOblinish in 512 bytes, which gives you real time fractals.

Source : CPCRulez's forum

A new Amstrad CPC music disk by SuTeKH (Epyteor) : Boulder Dash

Boulder Dash by SuTeKH (Epyteor) is a new Amstrad CPC music disk. Other music disks by SuTeKH :

• Now That's What I Call Chip Tunes 1 (2011)
• Now That's What I Call Chip Tunes 2 - Preview (2011)
• Some More CHIPTUNES (2012)
• This Musicdisk Is About 20% Cooler (2012)

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Three Amstrad CPC intros by gOblinish (Dmitry Krapivin)

Optimus introduced Amstrad CPC to gOblinish (Dmitry Krapivin).

So gOblinish released 3 intros in 1 month :

• CPCRaster in 256 bytes (on youtube)
• Dots in 256 bytes (on youtube)
• infinite CPC (on youtube)

Source : CPCRulez's forum

Welcome to Amsoft : the Amstrad CPC 464 Welcome Demonstration Cassette

If you are the proud owner of an Amstrad CPC 464, you have already seend the Amstrad CPC 464 Welcome Demonstration Cassette. Otherwise, it's time to see the extraordinary features of a computer which is only 30 years old.

The programs of this tape have been programmed by Roland Perry, concepteur de l'Amstrad CPC et du GX4000.

Sundance, an Amstrad CPC demo by Slipstream released at the Sundown Party 2014

Slipstream is first an Amiga demo group , but for the Sundown demo party 2014, they released an Amstrad CPC demo : Sundance.

Code and animations are written by Devilmarkus (author of JavaCPC), graphics by TCM and music by BEX.

Source : CPCRulez's forum

Breaking Baud, an Amstrad CPC demo on tape, 30 years after the CPC 464

Breaking Baud is an Amstad CPC demo made by the groups CRTC and 3LN, which was showed at the Revision demo party 2014.

Code is written by Doz, graphism by Rexbeng and music by McKlain.

This tape demo use a turbo loader to run while it loads (and also to speed up its loading).

Overflow / Logon System interviewed by NoRecess, author of Amstrad CPC demos

Olivier Gout aka Overflow du groupe Logon System has been interviewed by No Recess.

He is the author of Amstrad CPC demos like S&KOH (1991), Backtro (2001) and Yet Another Plasma! (2012).

Source : CPC Wiki's forum

Phactory and Phortem's source code available on NoRecess's web site

Phactory (a development environment targetting Amstrad CPC)and Phortem's (demo) code source are available on NoRecess web site.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Vote on Push'n'Pop for the best 2013 Amstrad CPC productions

Vox populi, vox dei, so don't hesitate to go vote on Push'n'Pop about what you consider the best 2013 Amstrad CPC productions.

Source : Octoate

An interview of Elmar Krieger (Elmsoft / EGS) by NoRecess

NoRecess did interview Elmar Krieger, the author of Amstrad CPC demos and programs (such as Prehistorik).

Source : NoRecess

Quinine, a PC 4kb demo by Optimus6128

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.

Outerloop, a demo by thesuper released at DiHalt 2013

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).

Source : Damon Sceen's google+

Interview of NoRecess about the Phortem Amstrad CPC demo on OrdiRetro (french)

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

Source : CPCRulez's Forum

A new Amstrad CPC demo : Phortem by Condense (NoRecess), with CPC+ support

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.

Source : CPCRulez's forum

Still Rising by Vanity, a second place for this Amstrad CPC demo at Revision 2013

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

Batman Ending by Vanity will be released at Revision 2013

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.

Source : CPCWiki's forum

Mind in Motion, an Amstrad CPC demo by Ham (Software failure)

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.

Source : CPCRulez

Yet another plasma ! an Amstrad CPC demo by Logon System in 2012

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

Source : CPCRulez's forum

Sugarlumps, an Amstrad CPC demo by CTRC and 3LN, with a music by Mr_Lou

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

Source : CPCRulez's forum

Glory Holes, an Amstrad CPC demo by Bénédiction/Semilanceata/Tom et Jerry, 1st place at ReSeT8

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.

Results of the 3 compétitions held at the ReSeT#8 meeting in Coutances

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.

Interview of Prodatron - SymbiosiS by NoRecess

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.

Source : NoRecess

Such a nice 64 Kb demo on (Amstrad C)PC, oops...

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 !

Source : Slashdot.org

Wake up, an Amstrad CPC demo by Benediction and Sector One

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)

Wolfenstrad, an Amstrad CPC demo by Dirty Minds

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.

Zero byte demo by Arteffect

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.

Source : Gryzor's Twitter

Nyan Cat on Amstrad CPC

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 adapted 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.

Source : CPCRulez's forum

Mandelbrot in one line of basic by Demoniak

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.

Source : CPCRulez's forum

Food for my plus volume 1 by Hermol

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

Source : CPCRulez's forum

Bloc us, a new Amstrad CPC demo showed at Evoke 2011

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

Source : Phenix Informatique

Contests results of the Amstrad CPC meeting ReSeT #0

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 (in 3 chapters)

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

Amstrad expo is dead, long live ReSeT #0 !

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.

Batman Forever, an Amstrad CPC demo

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

Source : CPC Wiki's forum

CPC Scene moves

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

Bloids1K, an Amstrad CPC demo by Optimus for Euskal Party 18

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

Source : Pouet

Break Point 2010 report by Hicks (Vanity)

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.

Soylent Green (just eat me !) by Supersly (Les sucres en morceaux)

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).

Amstrad CPC demos on CPC-Power

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 intro by CMP/Impact

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

Recession maxidemo by NoRecess for Sony PSP

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, an Amstrad CPC+ demo by Impact (December 2008)

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

Phat, an Amstrad CPC+ demo by Norecess (July 2008)

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, an Amstrad CPC+ demo by Norecess (September 2008)

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

Boules et Bits, an Amstrad CPC demo by Vanity (September 2006)

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, an Amstrad CPC+ demo (April 2008)

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, an Amstrad CPC+ demo (May 2008)

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, an Amstrad CPC+ demo (December 2007) by OFE

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

Synergy, an Amstrad CPC demo by AsT / Impact (May 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.

Synergy2, an Amstrad CPC demo by CMP / Impact (May 2008)

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, an Amstrad CPC+ demo by Semilanceata (May 2007)

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, an Amstrad CPC demo by Vanity

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, an Amstrad CPC+ demo by Semilanceata (January 2007)

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, an Amstrad CPC demo

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

Source : Push'N'Pop

Hate Beats, an Amstrad CPC+ demo by Ukonx (October 2007)

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, a new Amstrad CPC demo

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.

Source : Push'N'Pop

Killmax, an Amstrad CPC demo by OFE

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).

Source : Push'N'Pop

Cpctro, a Amstrad CPC demo by ZeroTeam

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

Source : Push'N'Pop

Sappy, an Amstrad CPC+ demo by Semilanceata (January 2007)

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

You can see a video of Sappy on Youtube.