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The Def Con 1 Demo

Date:31st May 1990
Size:644583 bytes (zipped MSA)
Location:download
The loading screen

This demo was renowned at the time for its horrible loader. Featuring a "byte-bender" scrolltext, this loader frequently crashed while loading the main demo.

The depacking screen

Once the compressed demo code was loaded, control switched to the depacking screen, which featured a revolving "Coke" can, and some text in Ian's "Liquidiser" font, as copied from Jesus Jones' album of the same name. The idea for the screen came from an Amiga demo.

Screenshot of the demo

The demo itself is another sample demo, this time with more on-screen action than "The New Order Demo." The samples were taken from a bad tape recording of "Def Con One" by Pop Will Eat Itself. The poor quality of the tape meant that the sample rate was higher than that used for The New Order Demo, and so the demo had to be one meg only.

The demo itself is much more interesting to look at than the previous demo, with some nice graphics by Ian and some little wavy scrollers. The code was by Chris and the large font and music sampling & sequencing were by Zogg.