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With Sundown 2009 coming up next month I figured it was time I actually posted some information about my entries for last years Sundown.
This is a screenshot for “Tribe“, my fairly quick-hack demo which saw something of a new style for my… stuff. I took what I call the “CPU-Approach”, which means a complete disregard for what the ZX Spectrum hardware is going to do – instead I ignored any possible colour clash and flicker and just whacked some stuff on the screen. Oddly it works quite well, especially when you have some kind of Gigascreen-enabled emulator. It came in second to a rather nice (and marginally more worthy) Vic20 demo, although I believe “Tribe” was the only oldschool entry to be run on real hardware.
The demo features a rather nice little music-loop by LaesQ, and some graphics that I stole from Slengpung… and then forgot to greet everyone whose photo I used. Oh well. The best bit of making the demo was, of course, using Riznix’ PC to finish up the demo at the party (the first time I’ve done that), and being semi-blinded by his bloody huge monitor when I loaded up a pure-white text document. Marvellous.
Here’s a download.