Shannon Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 If it still even exists.. I stumbled across a site the consisted of compilations of Atari 8-bit demos. Approx 15 years or so ago. They took numerous demos and placed them on an ATR image. Naming format DEMOS001.ATR, DEMOS005.ATR for example. The disk would contain MyPicoDos 4.02 and several demos on the disk. I can't seem to find the site or any old links I may have had to it. If I had images from there they are likely long gone. On the first disk are the following demos.. ABBUC Demo I, ABBUC Demo II, Atari Swan Demo, Atari Robot Demo, Compy Shop Demo I, Compy Shop Demo II, Compy Shop Demo III, Compy Shop Demo IV, Earth Views (Wait!), H.E.C. Ddemo, Happy Demo, Nemesis, Grafik Master II, We Use Your $D40B, Das Omen, Music Master II, TACF 7th, Oh My Dot!, Mandelbrot Fractals, Render Ani, Chris '92 Birthday, T.A.T. 3rd demo, Fraktalshow, Time to enjoy, Sweety, Digitsound NR.1, C-64 gag, Slotmachine II, Kaleidoscope, Ergo Bibamus, Rainbow Demo, Sphinx Demo, Lunatic, Studio Dream, C-64 Freak, Hello Boys!, Yo every lamer, The Top #1, Laser Demo, Einstein Gr. 9 Pic, Wowcopper demo, Norma, J.T.T.S.O.T.U. Digi demo, Pharao, Revenge of Magnus, Mirror demo, dictum acerbum, F*ed vocabulary, Alien, Christmas '89 and ZZZUM rotator. Any help would be appreciated in either locating the site or the disks that were available on it. Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 I believe it's Homesoft. The site used to have two additional sections: one with demo compilations, the other with BASIC files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 (edited) Yes, sure its Homesoft as well.. Here's the disks.. Demos.rar Edited September 2, 2020 by Mclaneinc 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted September 2, 2020 Author Share Posted September 2, 2020 (edited) Nope that's not it.. The homesoft disks use Boot manager.. the ones I have use My Pico Dos for a boot menu.. here is one attached as an example.. I only have disk 1 and 5 for some reason. I'm not sure what happened to the rest, if any, that I may have had. DEMOS001.rar Luckily enough I was able to find the demos on one of my drives. I had a couple hard drives fail on me the last couple years so I thought for sure it was a goner.. The directory is labeled MegaDemo. It has 24 disks in it. I also have an HTML file that looks like it is from the following site "http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/" Which appears to be no longer. Does this ring any bells for anyone? If anything this is a start. I just wanted to slowly piece together what I have and see what I can do with it. Edited September 2, 2020 by Shannon More info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible kid Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 It looks like I have the pico dos versions saved. I named the archive "www-user.tu-chemnitz.de", but that site isn't up anymore. It is 18MB zipped, we'll see if AA let's me upload... www-user.tu-chemnitz.de.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted September 2, 2020 Author Share Posted September 2, 2020 Thanks invisible kid. That looks like that is it! Seems my collection IS complete. I thought for sure I only downloaded maybe 7 or so of the disks. It was a pretty cool site from what I remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible kid Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 Yeah, I love going back every now and then and checking these out. Almost too many which is a good thing. There are 24 disks in the collection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 Yes, I've got those as well, I looked at one with the right dos on it before, must have looked at the right one but sent Homesoft because it was mentioned.. Glad its all ok... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted September 2, 2020 Author Share Posted September 2, 2020 Well thanks for the help guys. I don't spend as much time messing with demo's as I do with all of the other stuff. So I'd like to get my set a little more organized while it is on my mind. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 Hehe, Sven left the university and so his personal page at uni-chemnitz.de is gone. Originally he used a different loader (Cube-loader?), think you had to put the loader in virtual "drive 1" and the image with the demos in virtual "drive 2" to load them (or something like that). I found this a bit awkward and came up with the idea to use MyPicoDOS and also re-did all his demo ATR images (added MyPicoDOS 4.0x, also added Basic-off to some demos, packed some demos and added some more demos). He liked my new versions/images and put them online. So, if you have these 1MB ATR images with demos and MyPicoDOS on them, you already have the newer version(s)... There is a content-text for each image, the comments in (brackets) were also added by me, afair. Evil as I am, I continued these 1MB demo images for my personal collection up to nr. 30 or 32 but have not released them yet... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted September 3, 2020 Author Share Posted September 3, 2020 Nice. I'd have to say adding the comments really does help. Especially for demo's that are in other languages. Converting to MyPicoDOS is good as well. Thank you for doing that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible kid Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 2 hours ago, CharlieChaplin said: Originally he used a different loader (Cube-loader?), think you had to put the loader in virtual "drive 1" and the image with the demos in virtual "drive 2" to load them (or something like that). I definitely remember having to do it that way with the dos/loader in drive 1 and the packed demos in drive 2. So glad for the new way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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