LYNX DEMOSCENE
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Well all know how powerful the Lynx is : palette of 4096 colors, 16 colours,
resolution of 160*102, hardware effects such as zoom, rotation, etc. Such
features equal or are ahead of some 8 bit computers such as Atari 800XL , C64
or Amstrad CPC , where many demos were and are still released. So the question
each Atari scener has probably asked himself at least once is "Are there demos
on Lynx?"
This little article will try to answer that. To get more information on that
topic, I started looking on the Internet for some Lynx demos, either by
surfing on the links given on Lynx developpers sites, either by searching on
Altavista, Google, Yahoo, etc.
At first I felt a bit disappointed because, even if I knew there wouldn't be
dozens of Lynx demos, I expected to find a pair of interesting productions
quickly, but after a while it was clear that it would be more difficult than
expected and that I will need more time.
Finally, the only real demo I found containing several effects and some texts
is called "Jumtro" and was created by a guy called Jum Hig in December 1998.
I used the emulator "Handy" on PC to watch the demo and I had one or two
seconds of music at the begining, then nothing. So I guess it is the emulator
that works badly and the demo probably has some music. The first part is a
starfield with a scrolltext in the bottom explaining that it is the first demo
on that guy and that he used the compiler CC65 by 42Bastian Schick. Then the
demo goes on to t he second part, which features 8 vector balls in front of a
moving checker (from bottom to top). And then the demo crashes on the emulator
so maybe there are some more effects, I don't know... In a nutshell, this demo
offers nothing spectacular but it would be nice to see it running on a real
Lynx!
I guess there are some more demos available that I have not found yet, so if
you know them, please let me know!
Thanks to Moondog for his help!
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