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MWR
Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 8 |
Wanted: Demos with looooong scrolltexts
I love oldskool demos with long (and entertaining) scrolltexts. But these are very rare (especially nowadays :( ).
Which demos do you know, that have a loooong scrolltext and what is *the* longest scrolltext on C64 ?
I know of the following ones:
"World Record" by Super Swap Sweden 1988(about 70 kb texts)
"165 Blocks Scroller" by Gloom / Oxyron 1991
and if I remember right, there was also one of those Crest multipart demos around 1991 which had a part with a long scroller.
Do you know some more ? and who has the longest (scrolltext ;) ? |
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Szab
Registered: Jun 2006
Posts: 2 |
I guess the gold medal goes to the long scroller part in the Pride megademo called Deep. It contains $1A000 (104k) bytes of scrolltext. It was quite a long work to type in our group history, many different stories and a bunch of U2 lyrics too..
Deep |
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Petey21
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Registered: Nov 2003
Posts: 49 |
Here's another demo that claims to have about 93 blocks of scrolltexts, not sure how much that is in kb though.
Guest-Chatting |
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ptoing
Registered: Sep 2005
Posts: 271 |
4 blocks = 1 kbyte, so 93 would be less than 25 kb |
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Mace
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799 |
Damn... I *KNOW* there is a demo with an extremely long scroller. The makers used some sort of compression to get more text in. I think they used only 7 bits per letter or something. And it completely filled the memory.
But sorry... can't remember anymore :( |
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Inge
Registered: Nov 2003
Posts: 144 |
Well, this hasn't the longest scroller in terms of text, but it certainly is one of the longer scrollers in terms of visible chars, as it spirals inwards.
Still Got the Booze |
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Freddie
Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 71 |
I remember an old X-Factor demo, cliaming tio have the longest scroll text, partly in Danish. I think it was one of the Armageddon demos. |
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the_JinX
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Registered: May 2006
Posts: 31 |
Just have to point out "Let's Scroll It!" in this context..
Let's Scroll It!
Over 2.5 hours of scrolltext. |
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Steve
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Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 7 |
The one in Armageddon was $18000 bytes long, which is 96kb. Looks like it only takes silver medal, if that Pride demo is $1A000.
Dammit, i must get back to the drawing board ;).
Was fun doing though, i remember we wrote most of it at one of Dexters meetings. Not that hard when 20 people take turn on the keyboard :)
/Steve |
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Burglar
Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 1101 |
Quote: also check intestinal ulcer from baboons... got about 4 or 5 hours so far i remember.
Dunno which version is sreaded here... This demo got 2 sides.
At some servers the 2nd side is called "World record" hence to the scroller lenght ;)
Ok
Honesty
yea, Intestinal Ulcer features a 550 block scrolltext, its on side 2 of the demo |
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Conrad
Registered: Nov 2006
Posts: 849 |
One of the parts in "Alvesta Sirap '88" by Triumph has a scrolltext by Monopoly which lasted 10 minutes, scrolling by 3 pixels per frame. |
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