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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Dr_Who on March 12, 2008, 11:59:32 AM
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Hello all!
For some unknown reason, I have been thinking about a demo I saw years ago. It's been in my head for weeks now. In fact I'm not sure if it can be called a full blown demo. It was mainly music with a scrolltext with some cool effects (at least in my bad memory).
I have of course tried to google this (the only name I remember - Schweinstein), and also tried to look throuhg some archives, but not remembering what disk it was on, or what it was called, or even when it was made...
This is what I remember:
This was a one-man project. Basically the only name I remember, is "Schweinstein". Pretty sure that's how he spelt it. I also think it was among several other demos on a disk. I don't know what kind of disk (except 880 KB:p). And I don't remember what it was called, I just called it Schweinstein demo here.
I will begin with the end:
At the end of the demo, the screen went white, and the name "Schweinstein" appeared gradually as if handwritten. Pretty cool effect at the time and a nice touch.
One other thing I remember, is that the scroll-text reacted to the music. In particular a brass-ish instrument (I think), that made the font have a ripple-effect. They also of course waved up and down, the usual X-scroller, as well as turned up-side down at times, and sort of danced to the music. For the mathematically inclined, the "ripple"-effect I mentioned, is like the letters themself got an additional Y-scroll (wavy effect) with a much shorter wavelength than the height of the letter. I hope I got that right.. its hard to explain.
Schweinstein wrote something like this about himself: "I compose, I code, I fix hardware".. among lots of other stuff I certainly don't remember.
I'm also unsure about when I saw it.. Maybe 1990? But it could be before, or after.. by some years. Probably not before 1988 or after 1994... I'm really unsure.
So.. I was wondering if anyone else remember this, and just maaaybe have a link or an .adf-file to share, unlikely as it would be..
Edit: Corrected Title mostly.
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There was a "Sweinstein" in the group Cult, maybe it's from one of their megademos? (http://kestra.exotica.org.uk/demos.php?query=Sweinstein&strict=yes)
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Thanks!! Maybe I remembered the name wrong? I will check this out!
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I'm sure you are right, it must have been SwEinstein.
I found a -somewhat- similar effect in another demo by them, (CULT-MegademoHolyEternity. With some rather.. graphic graphics:p). Seems like something done earlier, not as advanced.
Unfortunately I havent been able to find a download for their megademo (the first). Of course the demo I'm after could be in one of the other available downloads.
At any rate you considerably shortened my search :)
Edit: small addition..
Edit2: more minor additions..
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I'll have a look in my archives when I get home.
Trivia time - if I remember correctly Sweinstein was also the guy who coded Twintris. His real name was Svein and he was Norwegian like yourself ;-)
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Yes, I just found out that he is a norwegian myself! (in one of the demos!) But in another part of it (probably). Still - small world! :)
That would be much appreciated! Thank you!
Edit: minor stuff
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I've uploaded some Cult stuff (http://rapidshare.com/files/99010246/Cult.zip.html). I haven't checked it at all, I simply did a search for Cult and put the likely candidates in an archive. I hope it's in there somewhere :-)
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Thanks!! You've been a great help! I'm dead tired so I'll have to come back to you about that.
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re Schweinstein demo
Is there a demo related to beer? :-?
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Now I have checked most of them I believe, but unfortunately no luck so far.
Basically switched between A500 and A600 setups and different RAM configs to get most of them work. (I don't have kickdtart 1.2 though, just 1.3, 2.04/2.05 and 3.0).
If it helps, I think the demo was started from CLI, via a simple text menu. But I could be wrong.
However cool to watch some of this old stuff and hear the tunes! Some are well known and some are new to me.
One other thing, I tried to make a floppy bootdisk image, but didn't quite make it.. although I had another one I made years ago, so I just made a copy of the image file, then mounted it in winUAE and deleted everything. Then copied the archive contents onto it. That worked, so I guess I'm good.
I needed to do that in order to get the contents of a lharc-archieve onto a disk and boot. I found it strange that the adf image I created didn't work, but there are some years since I made these (on a real amiga). I though all one needed was the startup-sequence in the s-folder and a c-folder?
The archieve I found was this bwt, but "my" demo wasn't in it. ftp://ftp.amigascne.org/pub/amiga/Groups/C/Cult/CULT-SO1.LHA.
I havent checked everything here yet of course..
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The "beer" part would be me spelling it "Schweinstein" :p
No, I don't know anything about that, but who knows what they consumed while making all those demos:)