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• demo ZX Spectrum Add Mortem by Arise & Joker [web]
• We are breaking some new grounds here, so we were not even concerned about the size - hence no compression :) The size is just the amount of data we needed for the specific parts.
• isokadded on the 2025-04-16 18:07:39
• demo ZX Spectrum Add Mortem by Arise & Joker [web]
• I understand the point about divMMC - it's the similar dilemma as on the 8bit Atari, which is solved by boldly saying "1MB extra memory is now standard because otherwise loads break demo flow". That is something the ZX scene has to decide by themselves. In the C64 scene we stick to stock config with the floppy, but we already have there IRQ loading so we are spoiled ;)
  
  Quote:

  those pesky loading times between scenes are no longer an issue.

  
  Unfortunately that is not the case, as in the real world loading even from the divMMC is far from instantaneous. And they are carefully taken into account in this demo.
  
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  Or is this the "Does the Spectrum scene need to be divided" discussion all over again?

  
  You can just have separate categories in the demo compo - that's a bit easier than dividing the scene ;)
• isokadded on the 2025-04-16 15:34:12
• demo ZX Spectrum Add Mortem by Arise & Joker [web]
• Quote:

  The demo is almost half a mega, and uses divMMC. Would I be wrong to guess it's mostly animation then?

  
  Using simple mathematics: the TAP file is 477kB and the data inside is mostly uncompressed (use any binary viewer to see loooong strings of same byte etc, or notice it packs to 50% of it's size under simple ZIP). ZX has no text mode, so 1 frame is 6,75kB. So the raw data is ~71 frames. That's 1+ second of playback :)
• isokadded on the 2025-04-16 10:46:01
• demo Commodore 64 3SIRA by Arise
• Quote:

  its animations.

  
  Oswald, there are also realtime (even by your limited definition of that term) effects in this demo, so please stop lying to people. Thanks.
• rulezadded on the 2024-09-13 09:34:34
• demo Commodore 64 Cepelia by Elysium [web]
• Quote:

  I actually probably would've left out the animated parts (they look ugly to be honest due to too many compression artifacts) but I understand these were probably meant as a dig at Arise.

  
  No Edhellon, they were unironically done by Luke/Elysium.
• isokadded on the 2024-09-01 23:29:39
• 8k Commodore 64 A Long Foretold, Inevitable and Final Demise of Community Driven, Competitively Motivated Subculture of Non-Analogue Art Creation Aficionados by Arise
• This is kinda hermetic if you don't follow the csdb discussion that is connected to it, I would not upload it here, it's an internal joke really... but what can you do.
• isokadded on the 2023-04-07 23:29:02
• 8k ZX Spectrum Reko7 by Joker [web]
• Me and Luke were watching this live at Xenium. You guys totally made our day. This was such an awesome moment! Thank you for that! :)
  ZX rulez! :)
• rulezadded on the 2022-08-28 19:12:00
• demo Commodore 64 E2iRA by Arise
• Quote:

  More than just simply that, it's like a bilateral reflection. Like a mirror of the word. Hence the 2 for the S.

  
  
  Close, but not quite. ESIRA is ARISE backwards, correct. But also, this is a series of demos. There was an ES1RA (with one instead of "i") in 2017. And this one is second in the series, so... E2IRA :)
• isokadded on the 2022-06-16 16:53:22
• demo Commodore 64 E2iRA by Arise
• @Black Dragon, I think that Legend being a CNCD member was rather joking there ;)
• isokadded on the 2022-06-14 13:34:26
• demo Commodore 64 E2iRA by Arise
• Uploaded the 1.01 version which fixes the UltimateII+ issue. Enjoy! :)
• isokadded on the 2022-05-30 23:00:12