What’s happening on the scene?
Recently released
- Inner Universe — megademo by EXTACY-3.
- Schizophrenia — 128K version (for now); a 48K version has been announced. By EXODUS.
- Delayed — megademo by KVL & LUK.
- MQM 6 — megademo, for 128K only.
- There — by EXODUS.
- Alien — with extra graphics by LUK.
- Boovie and Orion — games by KVL.
- Destructor Mortal.
- Integrator Turbo.
- Agonia — by K3L.
- Collection 1 — music pack by Scalexa.
- Scalexiada — same as above.
- No Inspiration.
- Flash — great graphics, something like an advert for several games.
- Power of Illusion — preview.
- Silence of the AY — a music disk with music converted from the Amiga; by ILLUSION.
Announced
- Dies Irae / EXODUS
- Megalomania
- YLS / THE MAD GUYS
- Power of Illusion / ILSN
- There 2 / EXODUS
- Boris GFX Collection / EXODUS
- Acheron / EXODUS
- Dragons / EXODUS
- MQM 5, which, contrary to appearances, will be made by BUSY / OMEGA / DEPECHE CODE, ART & MATLASOFT, and a few others.
As you can see, EXODUS is the most productive outfit on the Spectrum demo scene.
A few bits of news
KVL and probably LUK have left the scene. KVL has switched to the PC and plans to write some kind of demo for it. Apparently CBM, MATA and TOM have also left, so MQM has broken up (on the Speccy, of course).
The long-announced megademo by The Interceptors will unfortunately not be released. Most members of the group have moved to Amigas, and only Drozol remains on the Speccy. The Illusion group got in touch with him and welcomed him under its banner. A few parts from the announced The Int megademo will be released as part of Power of Illusion, a megademo by ILSN.
A newcomer to the scene recently appeared: MANIU, with the demo RE;EVOLUTION. He coded a preview of Power of Illusion for ILSN, earning himself membership in the group.
Current Illusion lineup
- Drozol — coder
- Kriss — musician
- Mały — coder
- Maniu — coder
- Pyza — graphics
- Scalman — coder
Scalman announced that he won’t be making demos. He’ll work on utilities for the group and code ZX LAND. Well, perhaps he’ll make something, somewhere, sometime…
EXODUS group
- Cat-Man — graphics, musician
- DC Pak — coder
- Jordan — coder, graphics
Agent-X works with the group regularly; his songs in Schizophrenia made quite a splash.
A new face has appeared in the British group EXTACY-3. That person is K0-S, who works as a graphics artist. His work can be seen in the Inner Universe megademo.
From 28.IV to 1.I, a convent—a gathering of Sam and Speccy users—was held. The meeting took place in some town in the Czech Republic. Unfortunately, we have no further information about it.
PYZA
P.S. I prepared this article based on correspondence with Cat-Man and DC Pak. Thanks!
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