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Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Christmas Card by Digi Tallis - Atari ST Demo - The 25ish Days of Christmas - Day [11/25]


Here is another entry from 1991: a simple screen with a scroller and a Christmas greeting!



DemoZoo Entry - https://demozoo.org/productions/67916/
Fujiology Download - ftp://fujiology.untergrund.net/users/ltk_tscc/fujiology/ST/D/DIGITALL/CHRISTMS.ZIP

And according to Digi Tallis's scroll text, this demo was specifically for Allders.  I wonder which store it would have been in back then.  Or course, now Allders is defunct. 

For those not in the know, Allder's was a UK department store that was founded in 1862.  Tough times hit the chain in 2005, and it nearly closed.  I believe one store survived, which then closed in 2013.

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 -

BUY ME NOW!    PLEASE!          DON'T YOU THINK ALLDERS IS SUCH A GREAT SHOP,  DON'T YOU JUST WANT TO GET HOLD OF THE NEAREST SEXY ASSISTANT (OF THE OPPOSITE SEX!) AND DRAG THEM, KICKING AND SCREAMING UNDER THE MISTLETOE.....     O.K.   ON WITH THE SHOW.    THE MACHINE RIGGED UP TO THIS MONITOR IS AN ATARI ST MICROCOMPUTER (YEAH) AND IS RUNNING A COPY OF THE DIGI TALLIS 'CHRISTMAS CARD'.        THE ST IS A 16 BIT WORD COMPUTER RUNNING AN 8MHZ MOTORALA M68000 PROCESSOR, INTERNAL 32 BIT ARCHITECTURE  WITH 16 BIT BUFFERS.   A GOOD, FAST AND RELIABLE CHIP!       ON WITH USUAL SCROLL TEXT BANTER.         FIRSTLY WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE LOVELY STAFF AT ALLDERS FOR LETTING US BOOT UP THIS SCREEN AND YOU FOR READING THE TEXT.        ALL CODE, TOP LOGO  DONE BY MAGUAY OF DIGI TALLIS,  FONT, MERRY CHRISTMAS LOGO, TOP LOGO AND SET UP PROGRAMS DONE BY ORMOLU OF DIGI TALLIS.     THIS SCREEN IS DONE WITH A LOT OF HBL TIMING, SOME 'ARD GRAFT AND A GOOD BIT OF ELBOW GREASE.          THE STARFIELD IS REAL TIME AND NOT PRECALCULATED.             MERRY CHRISTMAS TO THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE IN HULL        AMANDA (I'M TOO YOUNG FOR RO'S AND JO'S BY THE WAY!),       MARK WHITEHAND (THANKS FOR THE GREAT LOGO DESIGN),         SMURF (HOW YOU DOING?),         PETE FERRIBY (GOT YOUR SWORD ON YOU?),           MIKE COATES (50 SWEAR WORDS A MINUTE!),         MIKE BOOTH (WHENS THE MUSIC READY?),            J.GOULD (YEAH, ITS ME, SEE YOU MONDAY),            ANDY.C. (YOU LOOK LIKE SHIT THESE DAYS,  FROM ZOMBIE!),            REVOLUTION SOFTWARE (OUR GRAPHICS NOT GOOD ENOUGH HUH! GOOD LUCK WITH THE GAME),          TONY, ROGER AND SHAUN  FROM COMPUTER EXCHANGE (WE WILL VISIT SOMETIME!),               SARAH FAIRBANK (GOOD LUCK WITH THE DOLPHIN????????),         DARLENE (WHATS THIS ABOUT YOU IN BASQUE?),             SAM (HYPER ACTIVE?!),            HOWARD (HOWS FULL CRY DOING? RING ME),           FAT ANDY IN TOMORROWS WORLD (SORRY, CAN'T REMEMBER YOUR REAL NAME!)                 MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY.              DON'T YOU THINK CHRISTMAS IS A BIT OVER COMERCIALISED THESE DAYS?     ITS COSTING ME A BLOODY FORTUNE!          HI TO MY EVER FRIENDLY(??) BANK MANAGER WHO ALWAYS GREETS ME WITH A SMILE (HA!).           IF YOUR INTO ST DEMOS THEN LOOK OUT FOR   MEGA FORCE FOUR'S NEXT DEMO 'TEKNOFEAR' OUT SOMETIME NEXT YEAR (WE SHOULD BE GUESTING).        IF YOU WANT TO CONTACT US THEN WRITE TO             37 STORNAWAY SQUARE,    SPRING COTTAGE ESTATE,     HULL,     HU8 9LJ.      AGAIN                37 STONAWAY SQUARE,      SPRING COTTAGE ESTATE,          HULL,       HU8 9LJ.            ALTERNATIVELY FIND ME AT THE CHRISTMAS HEADBANGERS BALL AT STUDIO, ON MONDAY NIGHT.                    THATS ENOUGH,                 C-YA.

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