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Tuesday, December 10, 2019

The Pixel Twins Xmas Demo 1991 by The Pixel Twins - Atari ST Demo - The 25ish Days of Christmas - Day [10/25]


Now on to 1991 with what is closer to a Mega Demo rather than a run of the mill intro, here is a Christmas greeting from the Pixel Twins.



DemoZoo Entry - https://demozoo.org/productions/94166/
Fujiology Download - ftp://fujiology.untergrund.net/users/ltk_tscc/fujiology/ST/T/TPT/TPT_XMAS.ZIP

Why Mega Demo?  Well, it has a menu, with some interaction, and has 4 screens!  Makes a nice little package!

Along with the main menu, which as some interactivity seen in the youtube capture, there is an vertical scrolling screen with an extremely long, and slow, scroller.  This screen in the reason the capture is so long!  Along with that, there is a dancing snowman screen, a slideshow of Xmas images, and a Santa puzzle game.  The Santa game is one of those puzzle games I am horrible at, so I did not even attempt it!  Looks like a really nice addition though.

Capture info -

This video was captured on October 21, 2019.

The demo was played on an Atari 1040 STf, TOS 1.4, 1MB, equipped with a CosmosEX from Jookie.
A Best Electronics ST Monitor to VGA cable was used, connected to an OSSC 1.6 (processing the video in Line4x mode), with the output being captured by a Startech USB3HDCAP.

Video was edited with Shotcut.

Scroll text Transcription (From 3 different Screens) -

hello and welcome to the pixel twins christmas demo.  we hope you will like it, we think it's the only christmas demo with anything to do with 
christmas.  this demo is all done in stos and will give you an idea of what the pixel twins large stos demo, (or whatever we decide to call it) 
will be like.  sorry this demo is a bit small but nod & ld only came up with the idea of a real christmas demo at the end of october.  that's the 
idea for the demo not the idea for what would be in it.  now for some credits,  groan...  this demo is by nod, ld & pcm of the pixel twins.  the 
mad max music was fixed for this demo by dml also of the pixel twins.  now then that wasn't bad was it?  now for the greetings,  huge groan.  wait 
for it.  merry christmas one and all.  yes that's it.  that way nobody gets missed out.  also you don't have to read loads of greetings to people 
you don't even know.  if you are still sitting there waiting for something to happen, you will have a long wait.  this demo is worked by joystick.  
what do you mean you don't have a joystick?  well use the arrow keys for now and ask for one in your christmas box.  as i said before the tunes are 
by mad max, some of the screens have more than one tune.  use the number keys to change tune (where possible).  this is pcm and a cam't think of 
anything else to put into this scroll at this time.  i do have here however a mesage from nod, i may have thought of something else to say while 
you read this.                HERE'S NOD ONCE AGAIN!!!    THE CROWD GO WILD, GIRLIES FAINT,  GROWN MEN CRY.   IT'S NOW THE THIRD OF DECEMBER AND 
THE XMAS DEMO IS JUST ABOUT FINISHED APART FROM A COUPLE OF PICCIES TO PUT INTO IT. I'VE JUST BEEN GIVEN THE COR BLIMEY MEGA DEMO BY STORM AND 
IT'S VERY INTERESTING. WAIT 'TIL YOU SEE OUR GIGANTIS DEMO (FOR WANT OF A BETTER TITLE). WE DON'T CHEAT, IT'S ALL 100 PER CENT STOS. YOU THOUGHT 
STUPENDOUS WAS FAB, WAIT 'TIL YOU SEE WHAT WE CAN DO WITH THE HUMBLE STOS........   I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO PUT SO I'LL LOVE YOU AND LEAVE YOU.. 
LOOK OUT FOR OUR INTERVIEW IN THE NEXT EDITION OF THE LEDGERS BY THE UNTOUCHABLES.          AND LOOK OUT FOR PROF. FLY AND MYSELF AT THE WISHAW 
BOWL EVERY SUNDAY AS WE TAKE ON THE MIGHTIEST 10-PIN BOWLERS IN THE LOCAL LEAGUE.     WE CAME THIRD THIS TIME 'ROUND, BUT THE NEXT TIME WE'LL 
WIN.   WE PLAY AS THE X-MEN BY THE WAY. TO SPOT US, JUST LOAD THE 'MEET US' SCREEN IN THE STUPENDOUS DEMO. THAT'S IT. BYEEEEEEEEE!!!!!        
this is pcm back again, and i have an idea!  you could always turn the sound down and get all the old christmas records out and play them, you 
know, put you in the mood, that sort of thing.  i know you have them, admit it, get the bing from under your bed and have a white christmas.  
as i hate bing i shall go away now and just let this text loop.                 ENDENDENDENDEND       

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this is the snowstorm demo and was the first 
part to be done and hence the hardest to include as it was not designed with the whole demo in mind and uses lots of arrays which all gobble 
memory.  but enough of this programmer type waffle.  let's get down to some proper waffle.  just which of you out there in st land bother to read 
all of the scrolly massages in all of the demos, and why?  no don't tell me i know why.  to annoy me that's why.  and why does it annoy me?  
because if you didn't sit there reading all the scrollers then i wouldn't have to sit here thinking of what to put in them in the first place.  
ok a little bit of a scroller is fine, it let's people show off all the clever ways they have found to make the actual words almost impossible to 
read.  as they twist by at warp 9 in rainbow colours as often as not the same flashing colours as the background they are in front of.  but tell me 
this.  is it worth it?  you sit there infront if your screen with a smart new demo that the nice P.D. man has sent to you held in your trembling 
right hand.  you put the disk in the drive and hold your breath.  the screen goes dark.  you startto squint in readyness.  the scroller starts.  
what iiterary masterpiece willit be this time?  a drama filled with tension?  a love story with a happy ending?  a new theory for the creation of 
the universe?  the book of 1000 sure fire chat up lines.  instructions for putting flavour into pot noodle?  no.  what you get is what you always 
get.  hundreds of greetings to half the st users in europe followed by a description of one weekend last june.  when one bunch of people who live 
in sweden went to visit another bunch of people who live in germany.  this account is enlivened with descriptions of how squalid each others flats 
are and the amounts of cola consumed while working on a certain part of the demo.  Have you read the amounts of cola they consume?  where do they 
do this programming?  in the toilet?  the only people who are interested in this quantity are the marketing departments of the cola companies.  and 
they are only interested as this constitutes about a quarter of the european sales of cola.  .  .  .  .  there is another kind of scroller that 
realy anoys me.  that's the one that lasts for ever, but promisses something good at the end of the message.  sure enough after you have read the 
greetings, been amazed at how squalid the flats are and gasped at the amounts of cola.  well you'd have to gasp after that much cola.  then the 
scroll finishes and the screen clears.  for about 10 seconds you are treated to something very clever.  then back to the start of the scroller 
again.  i have two theorys for this type of scroller.  1. this is a ploy to slow down rivall demo producers.  if you are working on the best demo 
ever then you will have to look at all the clever bits of everybody elses demos.  to see the clever bit you have to sit through hours of scroller, 
you don't get much programming done.  the better theory is.  2. the demo producers think that if they put the clever bit first then nobody would 
bother to read the scroller.  i think this is a for better theory as i for one wouldn't bother.  well enough of this i had better go and have a pot 
noodle, so i'll just let this scroller loop.  10...  9...  8...  if i ever find out how to get some flavour into them i will put it in a future 
scroller.  what more incentive do you need to read them than that?  7...  6...  5...  4...  3...  2...  1...  loop!    hello, it's nod here. if 
you've just read to the end of this scrolly by pcm then well done!! none of us could be bothered to as he does go on and on and on........    now 
the scroll will wrap.   you have been warned... ENDENDENDENDEND 

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just when you thought it was safe, that this demo was differant, a nice animation 
and no scroller.  along comes this scroller and spoils it.  that's just the way with demos.  oh well let's get on with it then.  why do the snowmen 
have sunglasses on?  perhaps they are just realy cool snowmen.  well they would have to be wouldn't they being made of snow, and the basic thing 
about snow is that it's cool.  hang on a mo.  what's this?  is it summer already?

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