ZX Spectrum: Power Up (Demo, Megacode/Extreme, 1997, reenc)

(re-encoded to fix audio issues)
Getting this demo working proved incredibly difficult: for some reason, none of the tape images work. I did manage to dig out a disk image from demotopia however, and the results are mindblowing: Amiga style swirlies, dot patterns, plasma, FMV, lighting effects: this has pretty much got it all. Well worth a look!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• zx
• spectrum
• demo
• computer
• cgi
• scene
• pentagon
• scorpion
• amiga

[mylastninja]

it was a nice move on spectrum but c64 is much better then spectrum plase see desert dream demo on c64

[j00ceuk]

The Desert Dream demake on the C64 is impressive (I watched the original on the Amiga back in 1993 or so), but the thing to remember is that the Spectrum demo scene started a lot later than the one on the C64, there were less people and no clever hardware to take advantage of - it's all down to making best use of the CPU (the Z80 is approx 1.5 times faster than the 6501 for most tasks). So the Spectrum demos are highly impressive in their own way :)

[drahytrap]

I'm really having a hard time trying to get this demo work... what emulator did you use to record this video?

[j00ceuk]

It's been a while, but I used ZX Spin, probably in either +2 or Pentagon mode. Good luck!

[kmp008]

Awesome! Just awesome! You broke my f'n eyes :D

- nevef thought I'd see the Speccy do anything like this when I got mine in 83. This is a slap ine face to ginormous hard drives, terabytes of ram, and ridiculous amounts of gigahertz. Good job, guys! Cheers!

[2Trololo]

Да, это круто, даже для достаточно позднего 1997 года.

[F2bnp]

"Change your pampers" Damn right I will after seeing this!

[beetwaste]

Is this really a ZX Spectrum? Seriously? I'm utterly speechless.

[jormangundi]

Oh, and great demo ;)

[jormangundi]

The credits part at 5:47 is sped up, assumingly this is ran with an emulator and I thought it's probably because playing the video is interleaved with loading something from the disk, and the emulator has quick access to the disk image. When I run this with fuse and an .scl image though, with "fast loading" and "accelerate loaders" enabled (not sure if they affect this), the scene plays at a slightly reduced speed and sounds proper to me, so I'm not sure why it looks like that in this video.

[gombabacsi]

I love these demos :)

I love z80 processor :)

[jormangundi]

Hey! Thanks for going through the trouble of making the video, it was worth it!

[MastroMissas]

WTF????Simply amazing!Good old Specy!

[Tamanozke]

lol. Cyborg from Rifts at 6:30ish.

Really impressive demo though! Very fun to watch!

The FMV part made me go "Whoa..."

[phelios0209]

joder con el spectrum