Old School Demo III

Following on from 'Old School Demo 1' and 'Beast Tribute - Old School Demo 2', comes the cunningly named 'Old School Demo III', released today by Cosine.   The demo was written in response to a challenge issued by the owners of the DBF Interactive website and forum to create something for Halloween 2018.

My main inspiration for the demo was the silhouette image in the hidden part of 'Sabbat', a 2013 Halloween demo released by Arkanix Labs, for which I pixelled and composed most of the assets.

The demo has been released by Cosine and is available to download from the Cosine website here...

You can also download the demo directly here...

The whole caboodle is on GitHub here...

There are a few key presses to find to activate some of the sprites as well as a key combo press to find the hidden part...

I'll follow up shortly with another blog post with a little more detail of how the demo works, how the graphics hang together, how the music was written and so on.

Bat-Tro Recording

Back in 2017, Cosine released a small demo called MD201703 - The Bat-Tro.  Information about and a download for the release can be found here...

I wrote the music for the demo using a PC based tool called Goattracker.  It is a cover of the level 1 music 'Gotham City Street' from the 1990 SEGA Megadrive game 'Batman'.  The SID has been recorded using a 8580 SID C64c run through my Dolby amp.

Listen to the SID tune below; if the player does not appear, hear it on my SoundCloud page here...