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06 August 2012, 19:08
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ZX Spectrum 128k demos?
Okay, I´m enough of a demoscene and retro junkie that I´ve now ordered yet another machine to fill a need for a new niche in my computing room. Emulators are not enough and youtube certainly isn´t. There´s nothing like the warm feeling of running a cool production on real hardware. So I will soon have a ZX Spectrum 128k with divide!
I´d like to get some beeps beeping and colors clashing and stuff running on my screen soon after I get the machine up and running. What should I look forward to and where to get and what? I don´t even know any spectrum demoscene group by name or anything. Name 3 essential demos that I just have to see that have been released over the years, please. 
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06 August 2012, 19:28
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You can find many demos on http://www.worldofspectrum.org/demos.html and http://pouet.net
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06 August 2012, 19:35
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Okay, I guess I could go by the order of prods most thumb upped on pouet.
Seems like almost all of them are made in the 2000s...  http://pouet.net/prodlist.php?platform[]=ZX%20Spectrum&type[]=demo&order=thumbup But I was hoping maybe there were some demos that were significant enough for someone to tell a little bit about them to someone like me who is totally out of the loop having only followed pc, amiga and c64 demos.  Oh I might go and register myself in some non amiga related forums as well, maybe try spectrum forums 
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06 August 2012, 20:08
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Try these demos:
Critical Error http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=56765 Paralactica http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=57610 (you'll need a patch for divIDE to run it) Kkolor http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=18689 I don't know if they are 3 best ZX demos but they are worth watching. |
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06 August 2012, 20:18
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mescaline synesthesia was impressive and Stellar Contour
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06 August 2012, 22:00
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AFAIK "Stellar Contour" needs a TR-DOS machine (Pentagon), so it can't be run on Spectrum 128.
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06 August 2012, 22:24
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erm... &e7 (Andy Severn) did some cool stuff on the Spectrum (not talking games), but I don't think he did any demo's as such.
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06 August 2012, 22:24
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Gets there in the end...
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ah yes good point
Last edited by Coagulus; 06 August 2012 at 22:24. Reason: typo |
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11 August 2012, 22:58
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Just white screen after trying to start any of those, I´m afraid.
What is this patch for divide and how do I apply it? |
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11 August 2012, 23:08
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11 August 2012, 23:39
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ATF1508_original_5.7C.jed is compatible with this?:
 http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/4759/img0245qi.jpg http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/3575/img0244j.jpg And then I would just disconnect jumper 2 and run this fatware-0-12a.tap? |
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12 August 2012, 21:37
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No firmware update needed.
edit: for other demos than that parallactica. That one doesn´t run so it probably would need some update... but don´t know how. I just had to type in command to load demo it was LOAD "" I got mescaline synestesia working right now. Last edited by Mendel; 12 August 2012 at 23:28. |
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05 September 2012, 20:37
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Checkout "SHOCK MEGADEMO" by ESI
It's an oldie but a goodie, and was quite impressive at the time (even tho the English text is a little flakey) 
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28 September 2012, 18:03
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[ Show youtube player ]
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11 October 2012, 23:02
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That's a cool demo and the music is excellent. Thanks for the link, Hewitson
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