For Sorting by Civitas
- LOOKS PRETTY BORING, DOESN'T IT? IF YOU WANT SOME MORE ACTION, WHY DON'T YOU TAP _ OR CTRL TO INCREMENT OR DECREMENT THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE PLOTS. IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, JUST TRY IT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS. ANYWAY, WHEN YOU GET TIRED OF JUST WATCHING A CIRCLE ON THE SCREEN, YOU CAN PRESS THE C= KEY TO CHANGE THE X (OR WAS IT Y?) SINE, AND SPACE TO CHANGE THE Y (OR WAS IT X?) SINE. THAT'S ABOUT AS INTERACTIVE AS THIS DEMO GETS. "DEMO?", YOU SAY, "IS THIS A DEMO? IT LOOKS MORE LIKE A SMALL AND LAME INTRO!" WELL, WHATEVER... IF IT HAD BEEN RELEASED IN THE EIGHTIES, IT WOULD DEFINITELY HAVE BEEN CALLED A DEMO, BUT THESE DAYS NOT EVEN MULTIPART ONEFILERS ARE CALLED DEMOS ANYMORE, BUT DENTROS, SO CALL IT WHAT YOU WANT. OKAY, NOW THAT WE'VE SORTED THAT OUT, IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT QUESTION: WHY DO WE RELEASE SUCH A SMALL DEMO? BECAUSE I SOMETIMES TO STUPID THINGS. AND I'M NOT SAYING IT'S STUPID TO RELEASE SMALL DEMOS, BUT TO SCRATCH THE OLD SOURCE CODE AND THEN FORGET TO SAVE THE NEW SOURCE CODE, I'D CALL THAT PRETTY STUPID. AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I DID. SO I CAN'T EDIT THE CODE ANYMORE, AT LEAST NOT IN THE PREFERRED FORMAT. OKAY, I CAN HEAR SOME OF YOU SHOUTING "LAMER" NOW, AND MAYBE I AM. WHAT THE FUCK, I'M JUST NOT VERY GOOD AT CODING IN A MONITOR. SO NOW WE HAVE THAT SORTED OUT AS WELL. ... OKAY, MAYBE IT'S TIME FOR THE CREDITS, WHICH WILL EXPLAIN WHY THE LOGO AND THE CHARACTER SET ARE SO UGLY. EVERYTHING, AND I MEAN EVERYTHING, IN THIS DEMO WAS MADE BY PUTERMAN OF CIVITAS. SO DON'T BLAME ANY OF THE OTHER CIVITAS MEMBERS, EVERYTHING IN THIS DEMO IS MY FAULT. OR WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT. SO NOW WE HAVE THAT SORTED OUT TOO. IF YOU WANT SOME TECHNICAL STUFF, I CAN TELL YOU THAT THE PLOTTER GIVES YOU $60 PLOTS PER FRAME, AND THAT'S THE MAXIMUM FOR THIS ROUTINE. I COULD PROBABLY MAKE IT FASTER, BUT AS I SAID, I LOST THE CODE, AND IF I WANT TO MAKE A BETTER PLOTTER ROUTINE, IT'D PROBABLY BE A LOT BETTER TO START OVER FROM SCRATCH ANYWAY. BY THE WAY, EVERYTHING IN THIS DEMO WAS DONE IN ONE DAY, EXCEPT FOR THE MUSIC, WHICH IS A COUPLE OF MONTHS OLD. I'VE NEVER WRITTEN A PLOTTER BEFORE. AND NEVER PAINTED A LOGO BEFORE. NEVER SEEN A COMPUTER BEFORE. NEVER WRITTEN A SCROLL TEXT BEFORE. NEVER BEEN TO PLANET EARTH BEFORE. NEVER REALLY SEEN SANTA CLAUS IN REAL LIFE. AND IF YOU'VE READ THE SCROLL TEXT IN THE PARTY SCROLLER THAT ME AND UL-TOMTEN PRODUCED AT LCP2000 IN VAXJO, SWEDEN, I CAN TELL YOU THAT WHAT HE WROTE ABOUT ME SNORING WAS A LIE! HE'S THE REAL SNOREMASTER. OKAY, NOW WE HAVE THAT SORTED OUT TOO... SO, SPEAKING OF SCROLL TEXTS, I THOUGHT I'D GIVE YOU A REAL SCROLL TEXT IN THIS DEMO, JUST LIKE IT USED TO BE, IN THE GOOD OLD DEMOS. AND I DON'T MEAN "GOOD, OLD" AS IN "OH, AREN'T WE NOSTALGIC RIGHT NOW", BUT AS IN "THEY REALLY WERE GOOD". (OH, BY THE WAY, I'M IN LOVE WITH BOB-ULLA!) ANYWAY, OLD DEMOS, I WAS GOING TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT OLD DEMOS. YEAH, EXCEPT THAT THEY HAD LONG SCROLL TEXTS, THEY ALSO HAD GREAT EFFECTS. I'VE HEARD PEOPLE SAY THAT THE *DESIGN* WAS BAD IN OLD DEMOS. WELL, THE TRACKMO WAS A NICE INVENTION, AND I'M NOT GOING TO ARGUE AGAINST YOU IF YOU SAY THAT "THE LAST REACTOR" BY REACT IS A WONDERFULLY DESIGNED DEMO, BUT THE OLD DEMOS ALSO HAD NICE DESIGN (AT LEAST SOME OF THEM), BUT IN ANOTHER WAY. AND I'M NOT ONLY TALKING ABOUT DUTCH BREEZE, WHICH IS LIKE THE PARADIGM OF A GREAT OLD DEMO. BUT CHECK OUT SOME DEMOS BY COSMOS DESIGN, FLASH INCORPORATED, XAKK ETC., AND CHECK OUT THE NICE RASTER EFFECTS, THE TECH-TECHS, THE DYCPS (A DYCP IS *NEVER* UGLY), AND WHY NOT SOME OF CREST'S OLD DEMOS? GET A LOAD OF SOME OF THE CLASSIC DEMOS AND TELL ME IF THEY ARE BADLY DESIGNED. THIS DEMO IS, BUT IT'S NOT OLD, RIGHT? PLEASE DON'T COMPARE THIS PIECE OF CRAP (RELATIVELY SPEAKING, I WON'T EVEN MENTION BASIC DEMOS) WITH DEMOS BY THE GROUPS MENTIONED ABOVE. THAT WAS ANOTHER TOPIC... LET'S GET TO THE NEXT ONE, WHICH IS... ER... THE FUTURE OF CIVITAS DEMOS CODED BY ME. THIS ONE WILL BE RELEASED SOON (AUGUST 2000, THE 15TH RIGHT NOW), AND CONTRARY TO 99% OF THE DEMOS AND OTHER RELEASES THESE DAYS, IT WILL NOT BE RELEASED AT A PARTY. I LIKE THAT. DON'T SAVE YOUR DEMOS FOR THE PARTIES, ESPECIALLY NOT IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO WIN THE COMPO ANYWAY. BUT MY ONKEL JOHN FROM PAJALA SURE NEEDS A MAKE OVER, PLEASE SEND ALL YOUR MONEY TO ME.(BOB-ULLA: HE SURE AINT CLEVER BUT HE'S QUITE GOOD LOOKING!) OKAY, WE'RE BACK AFTER THE BREAK, SOME TOMATO SOUP AND SOME COMMENTS ABOUT HOW I LOOK. OH, AND BEFORE I FORGET IT AGAIN, ABOUT OLD DEMOS: THE MUSIC WAS *MUCH* BETTER AROUND 1990 THAN IN THE DEMOS RELEASED TODAY. YEAH. ANYWAY, BACK TO RELEASING STUFF BETWEEN THE PARTIES: DO IT, DO IT, DO IT, WE WANT A STEADY FLOW OF WARES, NOT JUST A BUNCH OF RELEASES THREE TIMES A YEAR. COME ON, IT'S NOT THAT DIFFICULT. OF COURSE IT'S ALSO FUN IF THERE ARE 15 C-64 DEMOS RELEASED AT A PARTY, BUT IF ONLY 3 OF THEM ARE GOOD, AND 5 OF THEM ARE BASIC DEMOS, IT'S NOT AS MUCH FUN ANYMORE. AND SO ON. BLA-BLA-BLA, I THOUGHT I'D WRITE A LONG SCROLL TEXT HERE, BUT I'M NOT REALLY SURE WHAT TO WRITE ABOUT ANYMORE. I'LL PROBABLY THINK OF SOMETHING. LOTS OF MORE TEXT COMING UP SOON, AS SOON AS I GET A CUP OF COFFEE... (YES, I KNOW, HE NEEDS A LIFE.) THAT WAS BOB-ULLA AGAIN, SHE'S SO MEAN... YEAH, I MENTIONED "THE LAST REACTOR" BY REACT BEFORE, WHAT A GREAT DEMO THAT IS! AND "RED STORM" BY TRIAD. AND OF COURSE "REFUGEE" TOO. AND THOSE NEW TRIAD DEMOS BY HOLLOWMAN, WITH MUSIC BY GOTO80. AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO COMES TO THINK OF TDM WHEN I HEAR THOSE GOTO80 TUNES IN TRIAD DEMOS? OKAY, SO NOW THAT I'VE MENTIONED TRIAD AND HOLLOWMAN, I SUPPOSE I'LL HAVE TO WRITE SOME COMMENTS ON LCP2000. MAYBE EVEN A PARTY REPORT. SO HERE WE GO: I HAD A LONG AND BORING TRAIN RIDE, BLA-BLA-BLA, ARRIVED AT VAXJO SOMETIME IN THE AFTERNOON, AND HAD TO WAIT FOR UL-TOMTEN, WHO WAS GOING TO ARRIVE HALF AN HOUR LATER. SO I HAD ANOTHER BEER (HAD ALREADY HAD A FEW IN THE TRAIN), AND THEN HE ARRIVED. WE WALKED TO THE PARTY PLACE, WHICH WAS PRETTY EASY TO FIND, AND IF IT HADN'T BEEN FOR MY VERY HEAVY BAG (CONTAINING A C128D AND SOME OTHER STUFF), IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A PRETTY NICE WALK. WHEN WE GOT TO THE PARTY PLACE, WHICH WAS A GYMNASTICS HALL, THERE WEREN'T TOO MANY PEOPLE THERE, SO WE UNPACKED OUR STUFF AND STARTED WATCHING SOME DEMOS THAT I HAD BROUGHT. AND SOME AMIGA GUYS THOUGHT THAT MY C128D WAS A PC, HA-HA. YEAH, YEAH. LATER IN THE EVENING PEOPLE STARTED ARRIVING AND WE HAD QUITE A LOT OF BEER, AND I EVEN THINK WE HAD SOME FUN. WE TALKED TO SOME NICE PEOPLE AND GOT DRUNK AND FELL ASLEEP AT ABOUT MIDNIGHT. WE HAD TALKED ABOUT MAKING A DEMO AT THE PARTY, BUT WE DIDN'T. ANYWAY, WE WOKE UP AND STARTED DRINKING. SOME PEOPLE THOUGHT IT WAS A BIT WEIRD THAT I HAD BEER FOR BREAKFAST, BUT A PARTY'S A PARTY, RIGHT? :-) NOTHING REALLY SPECIAL HAPPENED ON THE SECOND DAY, EXCEPT THAT UL-TOMTEN AND ME CAME AROUND TO ACTUALLY PRODUCING A DEMO. HE DID THE MUSIC, THE SPRITES AND THE CHARSET, AND I WROTE THE CODE. AND THEN WE WROTE THE SCROLL TEXT TOGETHER, WITH SOME HELP FROM ZYRON/F4CG AND SOME BRITTISH PLAYSTATION CODERS. IT'S A PRETTY WACKY DEMO, SO CHECK IT OUT IF YOU CAN FIND IT. OR GET IT DIRECTLY FROM ME. MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS PUTERMAN - CIVITAS64.DE. I WON'T WRITE MY SNAIL MAIL ADDRESS HERE, BECAUSE I'M ABOUT TO MOVE, BUT CHECK THE CIVITAS HOME PAGE (WWW.CIVITAS64.DE) OR SOMETHING... YEAH, THE MUSIC RULES. AND I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THIS DEMO, BUT ABOUT THE ONE AT THE PARTY. OKAY, ON WITH THE PARTY. THE COMPOS AND THE DEADLINE WERE DELAYED, SO WE HAD SOME EXTRA TIME TO FINISH THE DEMO, WHICH WE DIDN'T NEED, BUT ANYWAY. SO WE HANDED IN THE RELEASES (OUR DEMO, "BALLOON OR DIE!" BY CIVITAS AND MY TUNE) A COUPLE OF HOURS BEFORE THE DEADLINE. THEN WE JUST WAITED FOR THE COMPOS. AND DRANK BEER, WHICH IS WHAT YOU DO AT PARTIES. AND THEN THE COMPOS STARTED. THERE WERE SOME PRETTY NICE C-64 TUNES, ESPECIALLY THE ONES BY GOTO80/HACK'N'TRADE AND ZYRON/F4CG. THERE WERE ALSO SOME AMIGA MODULES, BUT I DON'T LIKE MODULES. THEN I MISSED THE GRAPHICS COMPO, BUT I THINK SOMEONE FROM WRATH DESIGN MADE NICE C-64 *AND* AMIGA PICTURES. THEN IT WAS TIME FOR THE DEMOS. THE ONLY AMIGA DEMO WAS BY HACK'N'TRADE, AND IT WAS A PORNO DEMO. THERE WERE SOME GAMEBOY DEMOS, BUT THEY WEREN'T MUCH FUN. THEN THERE WERE THE C-64 DEMOS. THERE WERE SOME PRETTY NICE SMALL DEMOS, LIKE THE ONE FROM TANGO (FPD AND DYCP). THE BEST DEMO WAS THE ONE FROM TRIAD, AND THE ONES FROM TBHH+AFRIKA AND HUJOWA WERE... FUN. OR SOMETHING. ANYWAY, I THINK IT WAS A DECENT AMOUNT OF RELEASED C-64 WARES, AS IT WAS A PRETTY SMALL PARTY. WE HAD TO WAIT A FEW MORE HOURS UNTIL THE RESULTS CAME, SO I HAD A FEW MORE BEERS, WHILE MOST PEOPLE SEEMED TO THINK THAT IT WAS MORE INTERESTING TO GO TO BED. WHILE WE WAITED FOR THE RESULTS, WE COPIED THE DISKS WITH THE COMPO WARES, OR RATHER TAPER/TRIAD DID IT FOR ME, WHILE I WAS A BIT TO TIRED TO BE ABLE TO DO MUCH THINKING, SO HE COPIED ALL THE DISKS WITH JUST ONE DRIVE, AND IT TOOK WHAT SEEMED LIKE AN ETERNITY. THEN FRANTIC/HACK'N'TRADE ANNOUNCED THAT THE JURY HAD FINISHED, AND DECLARED THE RESULTS. GOTO80 WON THE MUSIC COMPETITION, ZYRON CAME SECOND, AND I THINK MOST PEOPLE WERE HAPPY WITH THOSE RESULTS. CAN'T REMEMBER WHO WON THE GRAPHICS COMPO, BUT I DO REMEMBER THAT WE WON THE DEMO COMPO, TOGETHER WITH TRIAD AND A RUSSIAN GAMEBOY DEMO... THEN WE COULD GO TO BED. I SLEPT ON THE FLOOR, UNDER A TABLE, FOR ABOUT THREE HOURS, AND THEN I GOT UP AND STARTED PACKING MY STUFF. AND THEN IT WAS OVER. BUT IT WAS FUN. OKAY, SO NOW YOU KNOW THAT. IF YOU WANT A MORE SERIOUS PARTY REPORT, CHECK OUT THE ONE IN PUBLICATION #40 (I THINK). THE MAG IS IN GERMAN, BUT THE PARTY REPORT IS IN ENGLISH. YEAH, YEAH, WOW, WOW. THE PARTY GREETINGS GO OUT TO ALL THE NICE TRIAD PEOPLE AND MORPHROG AND ALL THE ONES I KEEP FORGETTING. BORIS OF COURSE, FOR GIVING ME A RIDE HOME. AND UL-TOMTEN, ALTHOUGH HE DOESN'T DESERVE A GREETING, AS HE CALLED ME A SNORE MASTER IN THE SCROLL TEXT. WELL, WELL, WHATEVER. NOW I'LL HAVE TO TAKE A BREAK, SINCE THIS EDITOR ONLY GIVES YOU $FF LINES. OKAY, I'M BACK AGAIN, WITH A FRESH BUFFER AND STILL TOTALLY EMPTY IN THE HEAD. OR SOMETHING. I JUST MIGHT GIVE YOU SOME IMPROVISED POETRY: THE SUN SHINES IN THE SKY, I SAY HI, HELLO TO EVERYONE, ANGST AND DEPRESSION ANYONE? THIS IS GETTING A BIT SILLY, RIGHT? BITE? ER, NO MORE RHYMES PLEASE, I'VE ENDED THE POEM. AND TODAY WE HEARD "RUN TO THE HILLS" BY IRON MAIDEN ON THE RADIO. COOL, HUH? KIND OF. 80S NOSTALGIA, DEFINITELY. HOW MANY DEMOS HAVE YOU SEEN WITH PICTURES OF EDDIE? THERE MUST BE HUNDREDS OF THEM. NOW I'M COMPETELY OUT OF IDEAS, SO I'LL JUST MENTION SOME NICE DEMOS, LIKE A TOP TEN, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, BUT WITHOUT THE LINEAR ORDERING. HERE WE GO: RED STORM/TRIAD, THE LAST REACTOR/REACT, REFUGEE/TRIAD, DEUS EX MACHINA/CREST, KRESTOLOGY/CREST, DA NAME/TRIAD, PROMETHEUS UNBOUND/FLASH INC., (KEBABPJUCK/TBHH+AFRIKA, SAYS BOB-ULLA), COMAJOB/CREST+OXYRON, 4TH DIMENSION/THE VOICE, ONEDER/OXYRON, TOWER POWER/CAMELOT, BOUND TO BE THE BEST II/XAKK, SOUL/BOOZE DESIGN. AND OF COURSE THE NEXT CIVITAS DEMO WILL BE REALLY NICE. MAYBE NOT VERY NICE, BUT I THINK IT'LL MAKE AN IMPRESSION. MUCH MORE THAN THIS ONE, ANYWAY. BY THE WAY, YOU'RE NOT STILL PLAYING AROUND WITH THOSE PLOTTERS, ARE YOU? IF YOU'VE FORGOTTEN THE KEYS, THEY'RE _, CTRL, C= AND SPACE. SO, UNLIKE ALL THE OLD MEGADEMOS, SPACE DOESN'T TAKE YOU TO THE NEXT PART. IF YOU WANT ANOTHER PART, YOU'LL HAVE TO CODE IT YOURSELF, BECAUSE THIS IS THE ONLY PART IN THIS DEMO. OOPS, I FORGOT THAT ANOTHER PARTY GREETING FROM LCP2000 MUST OF COURSE GO TO ZYRON, BOTH FOR WRITING SCROLL TEXTS AND HELPING PEOPLE GET STONED. ER... SLAJD! JUMP IN THE FIRE! METALLICA? FROM THE FIRST ALBUM, IE. THE GOOD ONE. THE FIRST ALBUM IS ALWAYS THE BEST. BUT THAT'S NOT TRUE FOR DEMOS. A GROUP'S FIRST DEMO ISN'T ALWAYS VERY GOOD. WHAT DID YOU THINK OF BALLOON OR DIE? I THINK IT'S KIND OF WEIRD THAT CIVITAS HAS EXISTED FOR 4 YEARS AND HAVE JUST RELEASED THEIR (OUR) FIRST DEMO. TOO BAD BLACKJACK NEVER CODED ANY DEMOS, HE'S A REALLY GOOD CODER. JUST TO REMIND YOU, YOU'RE WATCHING A DEMO BY CIVITAS, CALLED... I HAVEN'T DECIDED WHAT TO CALL IT YET. WHATEVER. I THINK I'LL CALL IT "FUCK ME HARD!". ER, NO. I'LL HAVE TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING BETTER. AND THAT WAS BOB-ULLA'S SUGGESTION, BY THE WAY, NOT MINE. WE COULD CALL IT "STILL IN LOVE WITH YOU". THAT WAS ALSO HER SUGGESTION. SOUNDS LIKE A SCORPIONS TUNE... SIGH... CP! CPCPCP. AND SO ON. THAT ABBREVIATION HAS A VERY SPECIAL MEANING IN SWEDISH, BUT I WON'T TRY TO EXPLAIN IT. I'LL SAVE THAT FOR ANOTHER SCROLL TEXT. "PLOT A LOT", THAT SOUNDS SILLY, I HATE IT! I KNOW! I'LL CALL IT "RED STORM"!!! NO, THAT WAS ALREADY TAKEN. HOW ABOUT "BROWN STORM", THEN? MAYBE "BROWN SUGAR"? THAT WAS BOB-ULLA AGAIN, RIPPING TITLES FROM ROLLING STONES. I KIND OF LIKE "BROWN STORM", BUT MAYBE SOMEONE IN TRIAD WOULD FEEL OFFENDED. :-) "STUFFED TURKEY"? ARE WE TALKING ABOUT THE BIRD OR THE COUNTRY? I DON'T KNOW. THE BIRD, I THINK. "FOR SORTING". YEAH, I THINK WE'LL TAKE "FOR SORTING". SORTING IS A CAT. A BLACK CAT. THAT'S WHY HE'S CALLED SORTING. MAKES SENSE, DOESN'T IT? IN DANISH IT DOES, I THINK. OKAY, SO NOW WE HAVE A TITLE FOR THE DEMO, I LIKE THAT. THIS IS A VERY SERIOUS PROJECT! AND, JUST TO REMIND YOU, ALL THE CODE AND THE GRAPHICS WERE MADE IN JUST ONE DAY. I'M SUCH A GREAT CODER, SOMETHING LIKE THE ULTIMATE ELITE. "YOU'RE LYING", SAYS BOB-ULLA. SHE'S RIGHT. IF I'D BEEN A TRULY ELITE CODER, I WOULD HAVE ADDED SOME RASTER BARS TO THE DEMO, AND PLOTTED $145 PLOTS PER FRAME, INSTEAD OF $60. AND IF I'D BEEN AN ELITE GRAPHICIAN I WOULD HAVE MADE A NICE-LOOKING LOGO, INSTEAD OF AN UGLY ONE. AND IF I'D BEEN AN ELITE SCROLL WRITER I WOULD HAVE WRITTEN SOMETHING INTERESTING, INSTEAD OF THIS CRAP. MAYBE I AM AN ELITE SCROLL WRITER AFTER ALL. PROBABLY MORE SO THAN AN ELITE CODER. SO I THINK I'LL END THIS SCROLL TEXT HERE AND NOW. BYE, BYE, BIRDIES! PUTERMAN SIGNING OFF... ... ... ... .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... ... ... ... ....... -