C64-demo by Acid T*rroreast, Mathman and me. Released at Datastorm 2012. This was recorded with a crap device so if you can, download and watch it on a C64 with CRT-screen and new SID-chip. Also check out other text art I’ve been involved with here.
DEMOSCENE
LCP-releases
Another LCP has passed. A good one, as usual. I brought a C64 with what I thought was a broken SID-chip. I thought that I’d finally destroyed it despite the magical SID CONDOM that Mogwai built and gave to me 3 years ago. My idiot-trick was to take out the cartridge while the computer is on. But not even that killed the SID. The SID CONDOM is the shit (but Mogwai doesn’t have time to build you one – haha pilutta dig).
My official releases were:
> Matsamöt – an ambient song with a beat. It was voted as one of the worst tunes, which can be a very good thing! It will be featured in the next release at Chipflip.
> In the name of the Sword – an epic text mode demo by Linde, Acid Terrorist and me. Sort of similar to the Acid Burger demo.
And some other things I liked:
> Rambo. A chronicle of.. – Twoflower’s identical copy of the title-pic from the old Rambo-game. Although it’s visually identical, the stored data is completely different, due to the way that the C64’s stores pixels. It “is” not the same picture.
> 2011 – A press space odyssey – an unfinished demo with the strange progressive oldskool style that only Offence delivers.
> Fire – Joe’s winning picture and it’s well nice!
Blow Me! More Hits For Kids LP
Up Rough has spent years on porting our musicdisk system to modern Amiga-environments. Now it’s finally done so here’s another LP! If you have things like AmigaOS4 and MorphOS you wanna get this file. But if you’re the kind of person who has a normal Amiga, get this. There are songs by Skope, Blade, Varthall and me.
Vandalism News #55
Vandalism News is a diskmag – a unique journalistic format for the demoscene. This issue is a tribute to the C64-musician Intensity who passed away recently. It features one ambient song by me, and one more electro. Also includes music by eg Jammer, Zardax, Maktone and other things by Ed and Joe of Wrath Designs. You can read about Danish C64-cracking in the early 80s, boozing with SID-music, the rules about first releases, etc.
New releases at Datastorm
I released some stuff at the Göteborgian demo-party Datastorm. As Goto80 I made Linkan (C64-song – darkish electro(nica)dub-tronica), Dubskvaller4 (wonky reggae-funk Amiga-song), Acid Burger (C64-demo, PETSCII and acid glitch) and all episodes of Bit För Bit (video). I may or may not have contributed to “the worst C64-demo ever“, SNPFCT3, Sommarfunk, Command Center and something by Christer Ganjabladh. No hits this year – strictly anti-1337!
Also, Jucke performed a DJ-set with C64-music (w/ Seratos), which includes several songs by me. Recommended!
Storm Rave ST-01
I released a lo-fi + lo-fi (lo-fi) song at the Kindergarden dance music competition: STORM RAVE. It ended up as #4 in the compo. That seems fair.
It was made with mostly (only?) sounds from ST-01 and ST-02 (that means Amigaaaaa 1987), and encoded in 80kbps to hide the lamer sound of Renoise. Lol-yeah-ölollö!
Also performed live and was interviewed by one of the authors of MusicLine (best ‘chip’-tracker, except for LSDj and Defmon?). Find the recordings on “internet”.
Otro+Goto80: New-D (Amiga1200)
Here’s a video recording of what me and Otro competed with at Datastorm a while ago. I am shameless enough to say that this was my favourite at Datastorm! Unfortunately, it does not involve cool programming so the demoscene doesn’t like it. Download the Amiga file here (68020+).
Datastorm Victims
Datastorm is a new copy party in Göteborg, Sweden organized mostly by my partners in Amiga crime in Up Rough. It features people that drink 100 beers and lose their driver’s license, and people who make MP3-decoders for C64. I made a new C64-song at the party called TECHNO AHA which might be a joke with German minimal techno. Also released the Amiga demo New-D with Otro which I was very pleased with (not online yet). Also did two other releases under other names, but you’ll have to figure out what that was yourself. Fake-releases? No, because all my releases are fake.
Some stuff I liked especially (get them here at some point)
Everything by Otro : )
Frantic – Birdburner (C64-music)
Jucke – När jag var liten påg (C64-music)
Judas – Liseberg (PETSCII graphics)
Qwan – Miles to go (Amiga-music)
Bajtek & Manload – Durex is free (Amiga-music)
Mahoney – C64MP3 (C64-demo)
Little Computer People 2009
I was at Little Computer People 2009 – the largest 8-bit demoparty in Scandinavia for 15 years, with about 150 people.
I was happy to win first prize with Automatas in the C64-music competition. I spent the week before at the countryside, composing a song specifically to win the compo according to my algorithm. But after a while I gave up to make a good song instead. So obviously my algorithm was wrong. It is an 8x-speed song made in Defmon, meaning that it accesses the SID-chip 8 times faster than usual. This gives you a higher resolution of all the tables, faster slides and LFOs, etc.
In the Amiga music compo, I came second last with my song Konkurs Data. The sounds used are mostly textfiles, pictures, executables, etc – sweet data that Protracker eats perfectly. It is not the recipe for winning demoscene competitions.
Some of the releases I enjoyed especially was the Amiga songs by Yonx and Qwan (mp3s), Zabutom’s Space Fish, Mortimer Twang’s Seved Skweeeeeeeee, Jucke’s Where is Dino?, LFT’s Power Ninja Action Challenge (custom hardware, mp3 here), and many more! Get all the releases and photos
Fairlight: My Beauty
Another piece of tasty data poetry action (aka C64-demo) by Hollowman and me, released at X’2008 last weekend. My Beauty. It ended up at 5th place after four demos with coder porn (ie some really impressive new or improved demo effects). I tried my best to make a cute song, but it got a bit weird (at the end of the day). Gotowomb! Rumours has it this is Hollowman’s last demo, please convince him he’s wrong.