The first demo this sunday is for Amiga AGA, the second for unexpanded VIC-20 and the third for MSX.

Starstruck by TBL 1st place on Assembly 06



Robotic Liberation by PWP 1st place on Assembly 2003 olskool demo compo



Alankomaat by Bandwagon

Well, for this first sunday demo show we have 3 demos, the first for the C64, the second for the ZX Spectrum and the third for the Atari Falcon:

Sphaeristerium by Horizon, Instinct & Triad 1st Place C64 Demo Competition at Little Computer People 2005 (Link)



We are Spectrum by Ate bit, 3rd Place ZX Demo at Forever 2006 (Link)



Untitled by Avena and Digital chaos, 3rd place at Fried Bits 3

Last weekend I finally decided to replace the faulty SID chip on my first C-64, which developed a problem with the filter on voice 1. When the filter is activated, that voice pitch drop a full octave down.
The only available SID chip that I had was soldered on a C-64 I use to canibalize for parts, so I picked the soldering gun, the de-solder pump, and in a couple minutes the SID was free, it was easier than I thought.

Luckily, the faulty SID that I wanted to replace is socketed, so I replace it with the 'new' one. Turned the machine on and loaded the demo Dawnfall, it sounded weird, but I didn't know why. Then I loaded the Stereo Sidplayer, the music in the presentation played correctly, the same with other .mus files, until I played one that used the filter on voice 1... this time the voice was completely muted
So... the original faulty SID is back in it's place.

First of all, as the title says: Happy 2007!!! to all my thousands of readers (hey, I can dream...)

This year it's the 25th anniversary of both the Commodore 64 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, and the 30th anniversary of the Commodore PET, Apple II and Tandy TRS-80 Model I.