The demo that started the craze, probably the first release Mega Demo on the Atari ST! Released on 1/1/1989 from The Carebears, Sync, and Omega!
And, thankfully, this led to many more to be released following it! Unfortunately, I was not exposed to this demo until much later. It never made the rounds of the US Atari ST BBS scene. The first Mega Demo to appear was the Cuddly Demos! So, my viewing of this demo when capturing was fresh! I honestly do not know why it never made it to US shores, unless spreading of this demo did not happen too quickly.
Besides the main menu, this demo has 3 screens, one from each participating group. A nice collection of screens, each doing something different with the Atari ST hardware.
Now, for more info, here are a ton of links for each piece -
Swedish New Year Demo 88-89 (The collection!)
DemoZoo Entry - https://demozoo.org/productions/71912/
Pouët Entry - https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=11785
Fujiology Download - ftp://fujiology.untergrund.net/users/ltk_tscc/fujiology/ST/T/TCB/SNYD_89.ZIP
Sync Screen
DemoZoo Entry - https://demozoo.org/productions/158948/
A-Couple-Of-Borders-Screen (Carebears)
DemoZoo Entry - https://demozoo.org/productions/158949/
Omega Screen
DemoZoo Entry - https://demozoo.org/productions/158950/
Capture info -
This video was captured on February 1, 2019.
The demo (the 3 screens, not the menu) was recorded 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.
The main menu scroller was recorded in SainT. For whatever reason, there were serious color problems with this screen on my 1040 ST.
Video was edited with Shotcut.
Main Menu - Transcription of the Scroll Text:
HELLO AND WELCOME TO THE SWEDISH NEW YEAR DEMO, RELEASED THE 01-01-1989 (A.C.) PRESS F1-SYNC F2-THE CAREBEARS (VERY VERY GOOD DEMO) (GUESS WHO WROTE THAT) F3-OMEGA F4-F10 DON'T WORK THE CREDITS: OMEGA FOR GRAPHIXX, THE CAREBEARS FOR RECODING (WITHOUT ANY BUGS) AND PUTTING EVERYTHING TOGETHER (AND JAS FOR CHOOSING THE PALETTE FOR THE SCROLLTEXT) AND MAD MAX FOR THE MUZAK. IF YOU READ THIS TEN TIMES WE WILL TELL YOU HOW TO REMOVE ALL OF THE BORDERS.
Sync Screen - Transcription of the Scroll Text:
HI THERE FOLKS!! THIS IS PYLON X OF SYNC TYPING IN OUR NEW SCROLLINE RUNNING IN OUR PART OF THE NEW YEAR DEMO. DESPITE A LOT OF TROUBLE THE DEMO MUST BE WORKING BY NOW OR ELSE YOU WOULDNT READ THIS TEXT. ON MY LEFT SIDE SITS REDHEAD AND TRIES REAL HARD TO MAKE THE SCROLLER WORK WITH THE OTHER CODE AND ON MY RIGHT SIDE SITS MR. MAC AND HELPING ME WITH THE WRITING. THE ROOM IS FILLED WITH THE HACKER ELITE OF SWEDEN LEAD BY THE CAREBEARS AND OMEGA. WE ARE NOW ON THE THIRD DAY OF OUR FOUR DAY CONVENT HERE IN \NGELHOLM AND THIS SCROLLER ISN'T VERY IMPRESSING IS IT???? TODAY IS THE LAST DAY OF 1988 AND OUR DEMO WILL BE THE FIRST (BUT NOT THE LAST) DEMO OF 1989 THE ROOM VIBRATES WITH AN COOLS HIP HOP MUSIC AND FAST KEYCLICKS AND EVERYBODY IS WRITING THEIR SCROLLTEXTS. I NOW LEAVE THE KEYBOARD TO BOOZTER FOR A WHILE..... HI!!! IF I DONT WRITE SOMETHING NOW THE OTHERS WILL WRITE IT FOR ME AND THAT WOULDNT BE A PRETTY SIGHT AND I'VE BEEN READY WITH THE GRAPHICS FOR A WHILE AND REDHEAD IS NEARLY FINISHED WITH THE CODING OF THE SCROLL!! I HOPE YOU'LL ENJOY THIS DEMO THANK YOU AND GOODBYE FROM BOOZTER.... HELLO THIS IS MR MAC WRITING... NOW ARE WE LISTENING TO ONE OF AN COOLS SEVERAL TAPES FILLED WITH PUTTE PUNCH LYCKOSHOW SOME PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM SITS DOWN AND SLEEPS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY. BOOZTER AND PYLON ARE NOW PLAYING SOME GAMES AND LETTING ME AND READHEAD DO THE TYPING AND PROGRAMMING. NOW THE TIME IS ALMOST THREE O'CLOCK AND WE HAVE LOTS OF THINGS TO DO BEFORE THE DEMO IS READY. OH I FORGOTTEN A VERY IMPORTANT THING TO WRITEE HERE IT ISS HAPPY NEW YEARRR AND I HOPE YOU HAVE REMEMBERED AND ENJOYED 1988 AS A VERY GOOD HACKING YEAR BUT WE WILL MAKE 1989 TO A BETTER YEAR WITH MORE DEMOS AND CRACKINGS. THIS IS ALL FROM ME NOW. HERE COMES PYLON X WITH THE GREETINGS HI AGAIN!! HEEEEERES THE GREEEEETINGS FIRST OF ALL I WANT TO GREET OUR CODEMOWRITERS (GET IT?) THE CAREBEARS (WITH AN COOL) AND OMEGA THEN WE GREET ALL MEMBERS OF THE HACK'N'CRACK CONGLOMERATES THE UNION (GREAT DEMO!) AND THE BLADERUNNERS FLEXIBLE FRONT (VARF]R KOM NI INTE OCH HJ\LPTE OSS MED DEMOT???) ACA HELLOS GOES TO HEAVYTECH ATTLE DEIMERT ZEEBEQ FLASH STONEHEAD THE OLSSON GANG (HAR FLER RINGT DEJ KENNY???) AND ALL THAT WERE HERE IN [NGELHOLM ON OUR CONVENT. THANX TO PIZZERIA NATALIE FOR DELIVERING 65 PIZZAS AT ONE TIME AND TO HALLBERGS RADIO FOR LENDING US SOME TV SETS (WITHOUT SCART GRRR..). HUMHUM! I THINK IT'S TIME TO FINISH THIS SILLY LITTLE TEXT SO LETS WRAP..... A FOOLED!! AND NOW A MESSAGE FROM OUR SPONSOR AFTER 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS THE ARK RUNS AGROUND AND THE FLOOD SUBSIDES. NOAH KICKS OPEN THE ARK'S DOOR AND SAYS "BEHOLD, THE FLOOD HAS ENDED! ALL YOU ANIMALS GO FORTH AND MULTIPLY!" SO THE ANIMALS WANDER DOWN THE RAMP TWO BY TWO UNTIL IT'S THE SNAKES' TURN. THEY LOOK UP AT NOAH WITH TEARFUL EYES AND SAY "BUT NOAH, WE CANNOT MULTIPLY, FOR WE ARE ADDERS." NOAH IS VISIBLY MIFFED. OFF HE GOES INTO THE NEAREST FOREST AND CUTS DOWN SOME TREES. HE SAWS AND HAMMERS UNTIL HE HAS MADE A TABLE OUT OF THE WOOD. HE DRAGS THIS BACK TO THE ARK AND PUTS IT IN FRONT OF THE SNAKES WITH A HUFF. "BEHOLD, SNAKES! I HAVE BUILT A TABLE OF LOGS. NOW YOU ADDERS CAN MULTIPLY!" WOW! THIS IS REDHEAD! WELL, I'VE NOW BEEN WORKING, DAY AND NIGHT, FOR ABOUT HALF A FORTNIGHT(GOT THAT ONE?) WITH THIS DAMNDED DEMO. I HOPE YOU DON'T HATE IT. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CAREBEARS FOR DOING THE BEST PART-DEMO IN THIS MEGADEMO. GREETINGS TO EVERYONE AT THE SYNC CONVENT NUMBER 2, ESPECIALLY OMEGA, CAREBEARS AND AN COOL. ALSO GREETINGS TO FLEXIBLE FRONT(SUPERB MUSIC IN YOUR SKINNY PUPPY DEMO!) I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO A ST-CONVENT IN THE NORTH OF SWEDEN IN THE FUTURE(STOCKHOLM OR GOTHENBURG, PURHAPS?). WELL LET'S WRAP. (IT'S REAL THIS TIME!!!)
A-Couple-Of-Borders-Screen (Carebears) - Transcription of the Scroll Text:
MAIN Scroller -
HI! THIS DEMO SCREEN WAS CODED AND DESIGNED BY NICK, JAS, AND AN COOL (!) OF THE CAREBEARS. SO WAS THE 'A-COUPLE-OF-BORDERS-SCREEN' YOU SAW ABOUT TWENTY SECONDS AGO. WE'VE SAVED THIS PIECE OF NEWS FOR THIS DEMO... -AN COOL- IS NOW A MEMBER OF THE CAREBEARS!!!!!!!!! I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY SWEDE THAT HAS HEARD OF -TCB- WHO HASN'T HEARD OF -AN COOL- , BUT SOME GUYS OUTSIDE SWEDEN PROBABLY HAVEN'T HEARD OF HIM. ] WE (NICK AND JAS) HAVE BEEN COOPERATING WITH -AN COOL- FOR SOME TIME NOW AND WE FIGURED THAT IT WOULD BE NICE IF WE JOINED OUR FORCES. IT WOULD LOOK A BIT STRANGE IF WE BECAME MEMBERS OF -AN COOL- (A.N. ARE HIS INITIALS), SO HE JOINED THE CAREBEARS!!!!!!!! WE RECENTLY RETURNED FROM GERMANY, WHERE WE FINISHED OUR DEMO SCREENS FOR THE -UNION- DEMO AT TEX' HEADQUARTER! IT'S ALMOST READY! BUT THIS DEMO WAS, STRANGELY ENOUGH, RELEASED BEFORE THE UNION DEMO. THIS DEMO IS A MIX OF LEFT-OVER- ROUTES, BUT IT TOOK US ABOUT TWO WEEKS TO SPEED IT UP AND PUT IT TOGETHER. WE ARE RIGHT NOW ON SYNC'S ST-CONVENTION IN THE SOUTH OF SWEDEN (WHERE THEY TALK FUNNY). IT WAS SYNC'S IDEA TO PUT A DEMO TOGETHER ON THIS PARTY WITH THE BEST ST-CREWS FROM SWEDEN (GREAT IDEA, SYNC!). LET'S JUST HOPE THAT IT'S THE FIRST DEMO THIS YEAR, COZ IT WAS RELEASED EARLY IN THE MORNING THE 1-1-89! WE HAVE CHANGED OUR WAY OF LIVING THIS WEEK (WE HAVE DRUNK 37 LITRES OF COKE AND EATEN 17 PIZZAS AND WE HAVE ONLY SLEPT ABOUT 4 HOURS SO FAR(. NOW A SHORT MESSAGE TO -FLEXIBLE FRONT- : WHY DIDN'T YOU COME? WEREN'T YOU SUPPOSED TO MAKE A DEMO WITH -SYNC- ? HAVEN'T YOU FINISHED IT OR DIDN'T YOUR MOTHERS LET YOU GO??? NOW WE ARE UTTERLY BORED WRITING THIS SCROLLTEXT, SO HERE COMES THE GREETINGS. THEY GOT TO: ALL THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE UNION (WE HAD A GREAT TIME IN GERMANY), THE BLADERUNNERS (BYE, BYE S. T. C. S. ) , SYNC (YOUR XY-DISTORTER REMINDS ME OF SOMETHING IN THIS SCREEN), OMEGA, FLEXIBLE FRONT, PYROTMCHNICS, SWEDISH HACKER TEAM INC. , BEAR OF BLOCKBUSTERS, GROWTWIG, THE COCA COLA COMPANY (WE ARE ALMOST DROWN BY THE FABOLOUS COKE), HANSSON, CRIBBA, ROCCO, LORD MADNESS (HE'S SITTING RIGHT BEHIND MY BACK WITH A BASEBALL BAT IN HIS HAND, READY TO HIT ME IN MY HEAD ANY SECOND) AND EVERYBODY ELSE!! (AND THE GIRL -AN COOL- SAW IN THE PARK!) WE DESPARATELY NEED A GRAPHIX MAN, SO SEND US SOME DEMO- DISKS OR IF YOU JUST WANT TO WRITE TO US, HERE'S OUR ADDRESS: THE CAREBEARS, SJOBJWRNSVAGEN 10, 117 47 STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN. WE ARE ACTUALLY PLANNING A COPY PARTY IN STOCKHOLM (WE HATE TRAVELLING) AND IT WILL BE SOMETIME DURING THE LATE SUMMER, SO DON'T PLAN ANYTHING NOW WE FEEL LIKE SAYING
WAVE Scroller -
YEEEHHHOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!! THIS IS COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE TO READ, SO WE WON'T WRITE ANYTHING OF ANY IMPORTANCE! WE JUST FEEL LIKE SHOWING THAT THIS CAN BE MADE ON AN ATARI ST WITH NO COMPLICATIONS! TRY THE FIRST FIVE FUNCTION KEYS! (ALL MUZAK BY MAD MAX) AN COOL GOT A HEADACHE AFTER 5 MINUTES AND SO DID I AFTER TEN! WE'LL SPARE YOU FROM GETTING A HEADACHE, SO WE'LL ONLY WRITE THIS: WE HAD TO GET UP FOUR IN THE MORNING AND THEN SIT ON A TRAIN FOR SEVEN BORING HOURS WHEN WE WENT HERE, SO WE ARE PRETTY TIRED AND WE DON'T FEEL LIKE WRITING SCROLLTEXTS SO WE WE'LL WRAP HERE:
Omega Screen - Transcription of the Scroll Text:
HI ALL YOU PEOPLE OUT THERE ! MY NAME IS THE FLYING EGG , AND MAYBE YOU'VE HEARD OF ME AND MAYBE NOT. BUT WHO CARES? WELL , AS YOU HAVE SEEN , WE ( HAQ,JVA,RED,KMP,TFE ) ,THE CAREBEARS AND AN COOL , AND SYNC HAVE MADE A COPY PARTY DEMO . WHERE IN WHICH WE HAVE MADE THE SCREEN THAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW. WHEN WE GOT TO THE COPY PARTY, THE OTHER CREWS ALREADY HAD BEGUN MAKING THEIR DEMOS. SO IN APROXIMATELY 12 HOURS RED AND I ( THE FLYING EGG) WORKED REALLY HARD . STARTING WITH NOTHING , WE ENDED UP WITH A DEMO WHICH WASN'T TOO BAD . WITH THE LED VOLUME DISPLAYS IN THE LOWER BORDER , FLASHING DRIVE INDICATOR AND SOME NICE GRAPHICS ( MADE BY RED ,THE PAINTER IN OMEGA ). THE MUSIC YOU HEAR COMES FROM THE GAME " BEYOND THE ICE PALACE " , AND THE REASON WHY WE PICKED THAT SONG IS THAT IT GAVE THE BEST REACTION ON THE LED VOLUME DISPLAYS. AND WE GOT THE BEST RESULT WITH CONTROLLING THE DRIVE INDICATOR ON THAT SONG TOO. AND AT LAST WE THOUGHT IT WASN'T TO BAD AT ALL. WHEN I WRITE THIS MESSAGE I'M SITTING IN A BIG CLASSROOM IN A SWEDISH CITY CALLED " ANGELHOLM " WITH TWO DOTS OVER THE " A ". THE CAREBEARS ARE SITTING RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME AND THEY ARE WRITING THEIR SCROLLINE TOO. BUT THEY HAVE WRITTEN MORE TEXT THAN I HAVE SO I'D BETTER START WRITING FASTER. THE ONLY PROBLEM I GOT IS THAT I CAN NOT THINK OUT ANYTHING TO WRITE ABOUT THAT MAKES ANY SENSE. SO I JUST KEEP ON WRITING SOME BULLSHIT UNTIL SOMEONE COME AND STOPS ME FROM WRITING , BUT I WOULD BE SO SAD IF I COULDN'T FEEL THE PRESSURE OF THE BUTTONS UNDER MY FINGERS, SO I WOULD PROBABLY JUMP OUT OF A WINDOW , AND THEN I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO WRITE MORE TEXT ,AND YOU DON'T WANT ME TO STOP WRITING ? DO YOU? NO I THOUGHT SO SO HERE COMES EVEN MORE BULLSHIT..................... .........................PUUH! FINALLY I (JVA) AND HAQ COULD DRAG TFE FROM THE COMPUTER. NO MORE BULLSHIT FROM HIM! LOOK OUT FOR THE FIRST VERSION OF OUR DEMO! WHEN MAKING OUR DEMO WE HAD A GREAT LACK OF TIME BECAUSE WE WANTED IT COMPLETED FOR THE SYNC-CONVENTION. THEREFORE THERE ARE SOME BUGS AND A LACK OF GOOD DESIGN. BUT IF YOU JUST HANG ON, THERE WILL SOON (SOON IS VERY RELATIVE) COME A NEW VERSION WITHOUT ANY BUGS(HOPEFULLY). WELL, WELL... I THINK THERE WILL BE SOME BULLSHIT SOON BECAUSE I REALLY DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO WRITE. HAQ TELLS ME TO WRITE A BIT ABOUT THE TWO PROGRAMS "UNISPEC" AND "DIGI-SPEC". BUT I WILL LET IT OVER TO RED, BUT FIRST SOME GREETINGS: ACA (WE WILL SOON JOIN AND BECOME RADIAC) , TCB (AND AN COOL) , TEX (AND THE REST OF THE UNION) , SYNC (GREAT CONVENTION, WE LIKE TO SEE MORE OF THESE THINGS!) , THE BLADERUNNERS , FLEXIBLE FRONT AND TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO ARE OR WERE AT THE SYNC-CONVENTION!!! AND ALSO TO YOU FOR READING THIS SCROLLINE........ .........'ALLO 'ALLO!!! RED IS HERE TO WRITE ABOUT THE TWO PROGRAMS THAT WE (OMEGA) HAS BROUGHT TO YOU FROM USA. THE PROGRAMS ARE "DIGISPEC" AND "UNISPEC". THE TWO WONDERFUL ACCESSORYS LETS YOU TO MAKE AND MODIFY THE BEST GRAPHICS ON THE ATARI ST. UNISPEC IS AN UPGRADE TO SPECTRUM 512, AND WHEN I SAY UPGRADE I REALLY MEAN THAT! IT HAS MORE AND BETTER TOOLS THAN ANY GRAPHIC SOFTWARE FOR THE ST, SUCH AS: BLOCK FUNCTIONS THAT LET YOU MAKE SEE-THROUGH AND INVERT (WITH 512 COLORS THAT LOOKS VERY NICE INDEEEED!!) NEW ANTI-ALIAS TOOLS (ESPECIALLY DITHERING (D) THAT MIXES COLOURS CHESS-LIKE (I CAN'T SAY HOW MANY TIMES I'VE WANTED THAT)). ENTER-TIME TO ANTI-ALIASING HAS BEEN REDUCED FROM 6 TO 1 SEC. YOU CAN STOP EVERYTHING (ALIAS, PASTE AND SO ON). CONVERT 512 COLORED PAINTINGS TO MONOCHROMATIC 16 SHADES. UNISPEC HOLDS ITSELF AND ANOTHER PROGRAM IN MEMORY IN THE SAME TIME SO THAT YOU CAN "JUMP" IN AND OUT OF THE TWO PRGS. AND (!) BRING GRAPHICS IN ANY FORM (NEO, CYBER PAINT, BASIC, FIRST WORD +, CAD 3D) WITH YOU IN THE "JUMP". BRINGING TO UNISPEC IS PERFECT, BRINGING FROM UNISPEC TO 16 COLORS IS NOT PERFECT ('CAUSE OF THE LOST OF COLORS) BUT THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO CONVERT THIS GOOD WITH SOME OTHER PRGS, MANY OF (ALMOST ALL) MY OWN CONVERTINGS WITH UNISPEC HAS BEEN THE LEADING PICTURES (AMONG 16 COLORED) DUE TO THEIR HIGH QUALITY AND VERY POWERFUL USE OF ONLY 16 COLORS. DIGISPEC IS ANOTHER GREAT PRG. FROM TRIO ENGINEERING IN USA. IT ALLOWS YOU TO (WITH COMPUTEREYES VIDEO DIGITIZER) DIGITIZE 512 COLORED WONDERS!! IT IS ALSO THE BEST CONVERTER FOR AMIGAS (AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!!! IT IS ALMOST KILLING TO SAY THAT!!!) IFF FORMATS (EVEN HOLD AND MODIFY (HAM)) I'M ENJOYING (SO DO THE REST) WORKING WITH THE REST OF THE MEMBERS IN OMEGA, AND THE MEMBERS OF THE CAREBEARS (AN COOL IS NOW A MEMBER OF TCB) AND THE MEMBERS OF SYNC. LET THIS DEMO (MADE BY OMEGA, TCB AND SYNC AT THE SYNC-CONVENTION) GIVE YOU A LITTLE KICK IN TO THE NEW YEAR, BYE FOR NOW...........AND OVER TO JVA...................OK, HERE I AM AGAIN! TODAY IS THE 88-12-31, THE LAST DAY OF 1988. TODAY IS ALSO MY (JVA) BIRTHDAY . THE REST OF OMEGA, EXCEPT FOR TOS HAVE BEEN VERY MYSTERIOUS THE LAST WEEK. AND TODAY I GOT THE EXPLANATION: THEY WANTED TO HIDE A BIRTHDAY-PRESENT AND ALSO UNISPEC AND DIGI-SPEC FOR ME. TFE LOOKS LIKE HE IS GOING TO TAKE OVER SOON AND WRITE SOME MORE BULLSHIT..............HERE I COME, AND NOW I'M REALLY GOING TO WRITE BULLSHIT.... LOOK NOW ....BULLSHIT,BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT,BULLSHIT, NO, NO JUST KIDDING AN COOL ,TCB ,SYNC AND I HAS JUST AGREED ABOUT HAVING A 512 COLOR SPECTRUM PICTURE IN THE MENU. AND IT IS MY 50 HZ ROUTINE WE WILL USE . I HAVE TRIED TO WORK IT OUT AS PERFECT AS IT CAN BE . BUT SOMETIMES THERE WILL BE SOME SMALL COLOR ERRORS IN IT. RED IS ALLREADY DOING SOME DRAWINGS ON THE MENU ,AND SO FAR IT LOOKS
NICE. IF I WOULD BE REAL HONEST, OMEGA WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN SO GOOD AS WE ARE WITHOUT RED ... AND WITH THAT I ENDS MY MESSAGE TO YOU. HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM ALL MEMBERS OF OMEGA!!!
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