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Frantic
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 1633 |
Demo records and world firsts
Hello!
From time to time discussions appear here about demo effect records or when some VIC-trick were first invented and by whom, and so on. Even if this is not the only thing that demos "are about", it is clearly an important aspect (historically) of the art of demomaking. Still, I find it a bit curious that it hasn't been documented in a more systematic way (until now?).
Therefore I made a (close to empty) "shell" for an article about this, and now I encourage you all to fill in the blanks and correct the mistakes:
http://codebase64.org/doku.php?id=base:demo_world_records_and_w..
Check it! Fix it!
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tlr
Registered: Sep 2003
Posts: 1728 |
I just corrected Line-crunch. When we find an earlier example, maybe we should keep the previously thought earliest sighting?
This will avoid the question if another often mentioned demo was first.
I'd also prefer iso dates to avoid confusion. |
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Frantic
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 1633 |
@tlr: perfection. I agree with everything you said. |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5031 |
Desert Dream has 1200 dots, the category should be named most dots at 50fps to make things straight.
edit: havent edited the entry, coz at this place I dont have my pass to login. |
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Laxity
Registered: Aug 2005
Posts: 459 |
Would be cool if the short terms were explained. FLD, VSP, LineCrunch etc.. What are those tricks doing? Some I know, some I don't, and I bet I'm not the only one. |
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QuasaR
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 145 |
Even cooler would be to add a link to CSDb to the release page, so everybody can check the records out... |
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Trurl
Registered: Mar 2002
Posts: 59 |
Quote: I just corrected Line-crunch. When we find an earlier example, maybe we should keep the previously thought earliest sighting?
This will avoid the question if another often mentioned demo was first.
I'd also prefer iso dates to avoid confusion.
Yes, keep at least a couple of 'contestants' for discussion. 20 years later it may be impossible to point which was released when, especially when the groups may have lied about the dates while competing about the records.
Is there any way to find out when a particular release was uploaded to cnet, for example?
Here's a couple of cnet releases that (somewhat vaguely) claim to have opened top&bottom borders first (look at basic-listing):
Impossible Border 1
Impossible Border 2
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Ben
Account closed
Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 163 |
Would adding stuff like first DYCP, BOB, self-timing DYSP, (or even stuff like first line-routine, eor-filler) et cetera be interesting? Or would it inevitably lead people to add all kinds of mixes and slight variations thereby flooding the page? |
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CenTraX
Account closed
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 117 |
First dentro on c64 : Obornik contains three world firsts.
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Graham
Account closed
Registered: Dec 2002
Posts: 990 |
Mega Jive wasn't released in 1986. If you read the scroller more closely, then that 1986 date refers to a date when the coder claims to have done a certain routine, but didn't release it until this demo. It was released around march 1987. |
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Wile Coyote
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Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 646 |
Krestology features the first vertical scrolling IFLI picture. I guess it is called scrolling, as I have a feeling someone might correct me and explain that it uses some other method.
I don't think there as been a demo that features horizontal IFLI scrolling, although I think BML's Dutch Breeze was the first demo to feature an FLI scroller.
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