| Date: | 15th April 1991 |
| Size: | 323913 bytes (zipped MSA) |
| Location: | download |
The Cosmic Demo was originally going to be called "The Happy Demos," in honour of The Carebears' "Cuddly Demos." The demo was actually released unfinished, due to the pressure of schoolwork on Chris, Ian, and Zogg.
The demo was a multi-screen "mega-demo" which consisted of a fullscreen distorting intro, and six separate demoscreens. If the demo had been finished, individual demo screens would have been launched from a main menu which had a little guy out of the Konami game "Gryzor" running around and selecting demos from doors. As it is, the demos are launched from the desktop.
For some unknown reason, we released 2 versions of the Cosmic Demo. The 2nd one was called the "limited edition" one, and had this splash screen before the intro.
The intro screen had a fullscreen distorting background with byte bending scroller, and a distorting logo.
The code and scrolltext were written by Chris, the logo and background were by Ian, the music was by Mad Max of The Exceptions, and the disting font was by ES of TEX (I think).
The loading screen was a simple blinking anime face and would have shown credits for each demo and provided stats on loading and depacking. Since we never got around to completing the disk formatting and stuff, this screen wasn't finished.
The main menu that never was...
This screen features a little bloke running and jumping around under joystick or keyboard control. The idea was to start each demo when you walked over a door and pressed space or fire. A bit clichéd when you consider what else was around before it (TCB's Cuddly Demos, TLB's MindBomb, etc.).
One of the nicest bits of the screen was a set of distorting "Watchmen" logos in the bottom border, each using a different font.
Once again, the code was written by Chris, with graphics by Ian. Some fonts were drawn by Spaz of The Lost Boys, and one was by the KnightHawks.
This demo has a big smiley flying around over some red stars. There's a sickeningly fast scrolltext as well.
The sprite and scrolling routines were by Chris. The graphics were all by Ian. The starfield was by Manikin of TLB. Music by Mad Max of TEX.
This was Zogg's only 68000 demoscreen. It features a bouncing scroller, disting logo, scrolling floor and some rasterbars linked to the music. It also had a barrel scroller that was done in a "half-height" font, where we interlaced each line of the font on separate frames to give an 8 pixel font in 4 lines.
Code was by Zogg, with some help from Chris. The graphics were Ian with the floor being taken from TCB's Cuddly demos. Music was by Mad Max.
This demo features a whole load of different graphical effects synced to music. There are faces whose mouths open to different levels, depending on the volume of each sound channel; Red, Green and Blue rasterbars that pulse depending on the volume, a spectrum analyser, and a Watchmen logo whose RGB mix is linked to the levels of the rasterbars. There's also a sickeningly fast big scroller.
10 different Mad Max tunes can be selected from the keyboard.
Once again, the coding was by Chris, the graphics were by Ian, and the music was by Mad Max of TEX.
The 3d Doc demo features a checkerboard floor which scrolls under user control, and 6 3d balls which move in and out of the screen following 10 different preset patterns.
The code was by Chris, the ball sprites were by Ian. The floor was nicked from TCB's Cuddly Demos, and the music was by Mad Max of TEX.