==The complete history of CPC Demos==
===Foreword by NoRecess===
===GERMANY, A PRECURSOR===
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Everything started in Germany with MCS and his [http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=8078 MCS Demos], that raised up big interest for many people. After some spheres that went up and down through the screen while modifying background's content (a judicious color-cycling effect), we then had a huge bouncing MCS logo in a later part. As you may realize it, it was already not that bad for the time, and he did much better in the following productions. We had, for the really first time on CPC, effects made of rasters. Of course, nowadays nothing is extraordinary about this, but at the time - it was completely amazing to get more that 16 colors in a logo !
MCS did many more demos that, to be honest, did not give anything new to show. At the same time of MCS's glory, an other German a Danish demo-maker, [[JLCS]], showed us other CPC abilities, with an impressive usage of CRTC's register 2 that allows to a logo, if well designed, to give the feeling to be floating through the air.
===THE FRENCH'S WAKE-UP===
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True fact : the first ones involved with demos were the Germans.
It's kind of sad that Dr TKC left off the CPC after that, because his work presaged a new era inside the French demoscene.
===LONGSHOT'S INVOLVEMENT=== [[File:Revolog.png]]
Another fanatic of hardware scrollers was Longshot. In his Longshot Demo, we had a wonderful horizontal hardware scroller, with a font transferred from PC. This demo was only a warming-up, but his [http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7799 Revolog] demo was, in its time, a true revolution since it consisted of, get ready, a horizontal hardware scroller, a vertical one, a PC font, horizontal rasters (including split-rasters), with also a music transferred from Atari ST !
===DRINKING WITH THE MALIBUS===
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At the same time of Longshot's early work (we can not yet consider Logon System as a team, since it was made of a unique member then - like everyone else !), the Malibus Crackers demos were released. Even if their work was not that impressive regarding the other demo-groups of the time, they acquired a privileged status thanks to their [http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=8209 Malibu Demo 4] demo (Naminu, main programmer of the group, joined Logon System few times after). In this demo, we had the opportunity to discover an overscan-formatted screen with a scroller moving through all the screen, that made also use of another parallax scroller, the whole thing enhanced with multiple video modes on same unique screen, and so on..
===FEFESSE (RIP)===
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Yaoooo Demo by Fefesse
===MISC STUFF===
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Krad'os Crackers - Trash Demo
Also, the Krad'os Crackers proposed, with the Trash Demo, a gem with fantastic graphics. M. Zebigboss (the visual artist of the group) realized splendid mad-balls. The programming-side was also very good, since Mister Plus implemented the demo in overscan, with a scrolling in mode 0, a writer in mode 2 using plenty of rasters inside.
===FINLAND DENMARK JOINED THE COMMUNITY=== [[File:Remix1ByNWC.png]]
[http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=7589 Remix demo] by N.W.C
At this time, the 2 main challengers in the course of the best demo were France and Germany. But Finland Denmark entered the challenge too and actually represented a terrific player. [[NWC ]] (New Way Cracking) did, before everyone else, a demo that was (in my opinion) THE demo on CPC. It proposed a [[Remix I|remix ]] of the best CPC musics.
On top of that, he filled the whole screen with tons of fantastic rasters, and impressed people with an hardware horizontal scroller (once again, before anyone else - but I can't prove it, since announced dates looks a little bit unrealistic).
===SWEET FRANCE===
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The Amazing Demo by Logon System
===A TERRIFIC FOLLOW-UP===
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Then [http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=8746 The Demo] got released. No need to describe it anymore, since it has been largely exposed at the time by all writers of this magazine (it's true fact they received a tiny gift from Logon System for good reviews...).
===POUM'S PREFERRED DEMO===
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[[Paradise_Demo|Paradise Demo]]
===ECSTASY HAS A NAME===
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[[S%26KOH|S&KOH]] by Logon System
===BEST OF THE BEASTS===
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[[Ultimate_Megademo|Face Hugger Ultimate Megademo]]
Written in French by Slash/Logon System
Translated to English by [http://www.norecess.net NoRecess/Condense]
Submitted by Arnoldemu
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