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Released At :
Fjälldata 2026
Achievements :
C64 Demo Competition at Fjälldata 2026 : #2
Credits :
| Code | .... | Quiss of Art Project Studios, Reflex |
| | | Raistlin of C64GFX Staff, Genesis Project, Propaganda Magazine Staff |
| | | Scrap of Genesis Project, Propaganda Magazine Staff |
| | | Sparta of Genesis Project, OMG, Propaganda Magazine Staff |
| Music | .... | psych858o of Censor Design, Genesis Project, MultiStyle Labs |
| | | Steel of Genesis Project, Success, Success + The Ruling Company |
| Graphics | .... | JonEgg of Genesis Project |
| | | Mermaid of Genesis Project, Vision |
| | | Quiss of Art Project Studios, Reflex |
| | | redcrab of Genesis Project, Goin' Sideways, Performers |
| | | Scrap of Genesis Project, Propaganda Magazine Staff |
| Design | .... | Mermaid of Genesis Project, Vision |
| | | Quiss of Art Project Studios, Reflex |
| | | Sparta of Genesis Project, OMG, Propaganda Magazine Staff |
| Idea | .... | Quiss of Art Project Studios, Reflex |
| | | Sparta of Genesis Project, OMG, Propaganda Magazine Staff |
| Charset | .... | Quiss of Art Project Studios, Reflex |
| | | Scrap of Genesis Project, Propaganda Magazine Staff |
| | | Sparta of Genesis Project, OMG, Propaganda Magazine Staff |
| Linking | .... | Quiss of Art Project Studios, Reflex |
| | | Sparta of Genesis Project, OMG, Propaganda Magazine Staff |
| Loader | .... | Sparta of Genesis Project, OMG, Propaganda Magazine Staff |
| Test | .... | hedning of Genesis Project, Propaganda Magazine Staff, Radio 6581 |
| | | Steel of Genesis Project, Success, Success + The Ruling Company |
| Directory Art | .... | redcrab of Genesis Project, Goin' Sideways, Performers |
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Submitted by Angel of Death on 9 March 2026
Somehow missed this one. >D
But The Beast watched every second of it and noticed we are mentioned.
Thanks for the greetz and see you at X-2026! |
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Submitted by Dymo on 8 March 2026
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Submitted by WVL on 3 March 2026
I completely missed that Flescos screen at the beginning, until I read the other comments. That is awesome with all those colors! How did I miss that?
Would have been great if the inplane entertainment would be 1702's inside the seats :-) |
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Submitted by anonym on 21 February 2026
| Love this demo, so smooth, so enjoyable with great design, music, graphics and code. Thanks to Mermaid for posting the workstages. |
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Submitted by Viscid on 14 February 2026
| Ex-quiss-it Demo! Of course congrats to the whole team, we know who you are. But I liked the wordplay. The diagonal 3D scroller and the Kefrenbars, wonderfull. Damn you Matthias ;) |
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Submitted by HCL on 9 February 2026
| Those bitmap-kefrens-bars are pretty darn impressing, updating every 2:nd line! ..and the graphics!! |
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Submitted by Yogibear on 9 February 2026
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Submitted by Gordian on 8 February 2026
| Great graphics and musics. Subtle and short but beautiful ice particles(?) swirl effect. |
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Submitted by Strepto on 8 February 2026
Great demo, lots and lots of nice effects.
Amaseing load of kefrens bars, probably everything is covered what's possible with them :)
I haven't invented many effects myself, but Im particularly proud of the sideborder bars I have coded for Sprite Spirit 4 years ago. |
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Submitted by WVL on 5 February 2026
| Those rotating rasterbars on side 2 are totally what I had in mind for Halloweed 4, but completely failed at making it. These are really great to see!!! |
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Submitted by Bob on 5 February 2026
WoW proper X-Demo quality demo, isn't it a bit early for that ? ;)
awesome work, need to scratch my head, what's going on here?. BTW a funny note I just recently came home from a US trip. This totally hit me! the infotainment system, was just in my face with the airplane stuff :) |
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Submitted by Bodo on 4 February 2026
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Submitted by trident on 4 February 2026
As someone who likes flying, this is a demo for me! I've never flown SFO-TPA though, but after seeing this demo, I absolutely will have to do that. Even though there apparently is a risk of being abducted by aliens, I think the in-flight demo effects make that a risk worth taking.
A few of my personal highlights of this demo:
* Basic fader is really smooth (not sure why the text color changes from whatever it was to begin with into light blue - it shouldn't be needed for the effect, so maybe this was just an oversight)
* I love how the flight that we're on starts at 08:01 in San Francisco and lands in 15:41 in Tampa. While those times are obviously chosen because of their significance for the C64 ($0801 being the starting point of basic programs, and 1541 the disk drive), these times are very close to what such a flight would take: the flight is about 5-6 hours, and the time zone difference is 3 hours. So the 08:01 to 15:41 flight time is not unreasonable. (SFO does not have a runway 17 though - the closest it has are its two runways 19, labelled 19R and 19L, right and left. But maybe this two degree difference is why the flight eventually ends up space?)
* The mega bootup message, which is done with multicolor FLESCOS and with moving rasters colors in two of the multicolor registers, looks awesome! The picture is drawn to hide the staircase effect very well.
* The mini kefrens bars on the inflight entertainment screen looks great, and the full-screen kefrens bars that follow are very colorful and fast. Overall, plenty of very cool kefrens bars throughout the demo.
* The three-layer moving pattern thingy that follows is incredible - I have no idea how it works, even after Quiss explained it at Fjälldata. Will have to dig into that one.
* I usually love Raistlin's full-screen DYPPs, but this one looked a little too repeated for my taste.
* The inverted kefrens bars with a moveable inversion point look great - I don't know how this is done, but I think this is the first time I've seen the inversion point being this flexible.
* The massive diagonal scroll is very cool, even though the dithering is a little raw and flickers somewhat as the scroll is moving.
* Those two 3D copper bar effects are awesome! Quiss mentioned that they were dropped in almost as an afterthought, but - man - they look great!
* One of my absolute favorites of the demo are the three black-and-rastercolored revolving perspective bars. The way they move and the colors on them look phenomenal. And when they move very close to each other it looks almost like they fuse together. Wonderful!
* Raistlin's limited bobs on top of a background picture, which we first saw in No Bounds, is now in full screen mode! No more awkward linecrunch area at the top of the screen. Yay, very nice! But we see *way* too little of it - the first time I saw the demo, I didn't realize what it was before it suddenly was gone. I would have loved to see this one much longer. (The C3PO picture feels somewhat randomly thrown in here, in terms of the storyline - but we do see C3PO flying around in Return of the Jedi, so it wouldn't be impossible to think that he just happened to fly past our plane and we happen to see him through the airplane window.)
* I really like the hidden line vectors, both in full screen mode and in inflight entertainment mode.
* I like how the aliens have a C128 screen (where they've pressed RUN STOP/RESTORE). Even as an avid C128D user back in the day, that green C128 screen always looked alien to me too.
* The 3D alien icon scroller is great! A real treat. Very smooth, very cool.
* I like the bob-kefrens effect, which I think I first saw in the Amiga demo 3D Demo 3: The Last Drop by Lemon from Revision 2025, where they call them Lemon bars.
* The all-border ball rotator is the kind of Quiss magic that is so insane to even think about doing. Just pondering all the special cases would give me mild nightmares (which I suppose is the exact same feeling that that alien guy gets from seeing it on the inflight entertainment screen!). And here it is executed in a perfectly smooth fashion. The sprites get capped very nicely at the top and bottom.
* Redcrab's ghostfont in the final upscroller is a great one! Also the scroller itself - it covers a lot of the screen, and both the top and bottom edges are very sharp.
Also, looking at the credits, it is evident that Quiss did a lot of the hard work of just making everything fit together. That part of demo development where you're "playing in the orchestra" as opposed to being the virtuoso. That takes a lot of work, and it is one the pieces of modern demomaking that gets very little appreciation, because it is so difficult to see the amount of work that goes into it. Anyone who has tried, knows, of course, but I think it deserves to be acknowledged. |
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Submitted by TheRyk on 4 February 2026
Finally some decent demo with planes!
Mayday! approves!
About the "should have won" comments, I wouldn't have been surprised, either, but it was a tough competition, the only thing that was clear, was G*P won :) only with which entry... Sometimes - even for experienced voters (glad i didn't have to vote) - it's hard to decide, both #1 and #2 featured decent codepr0n AND top-charming content... |
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Submitted by Mermaid on 3 February 2026
Thank you for the kind comments all <3
I've added some workstages and stuff to the production notes section for anyone who's interested in that sort of thing.
Edit: Pal, thank you <3 I posted the workstages and other images because some people enjoy seeing the process :) (I hope I don't have to prove anything to anyone) |
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Submitted by PAL on 3 February 2026
| So cool to see, but in a way I find it very sad that one must show proof of what one has done these days... you did super all the way... postedin the thread where the progress images are at but land here. |
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Submitted by PAL on 3 February 2026
| way cool demo, and them pixels... wow |
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Submitted by Clarence on 2 February 2026
Excellent demo, music, artwork support for the theme. Impeccable flow, some fxs even felt for too short being shown.
Lovely x-rotators (hires outlines), the invaders scroller, the c3po effect, the allborder multiplexer, cool final upscroll. Nice Kefrens bars, but I think the demo had a bit of an overdose on them. Top work! |
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Submitted by Genius on 2 February 2026
| I want to fly with Sparkle Airlines! |
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Submitted by TLF on 2 February 2026
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Submitted by AMB on 2 February 2026
| Hi quality code, music and entertainment. Thank you for your hard work and congrats! |
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Submitted by JAC on 2 February 2026
| Incredible amount of effects per second, lovely graphics and music. The cooper bars falling down look just mindblowing. |
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Submitted by Noise on 1 February 2026
| Where is the plotter record? Or is it that there are a total 32768 dots drawn in the entire part? |
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Submitted by WVL on 1 February 2026
| I'm so stunned I don't know what to say, so I won't. |
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Submitted by Digger on 1 February 2026
Watched this last night at 3:00AM on my phone and got mindblown. Had to rewatch again in the morning to make sure I wasn't dreaming. I can't imagine the number of hours that went into this prod. Unbelievable attention to details including the story, all the pixels, animations, sprite masking, technicals, multiple versions of the same effects, transitions, syncs and details (like the flight progres using sprites with raster-splits etc.)
And then that end scroller. As Trap said, this is the X level production. How did you even pull this off? Absolutely stunning and beautiful. Thank you <3
PS
All these great effects disappear from the screen too quickly, please tell me Shift Lock works to keep 'em longer. |
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Submitted by KAL_123 on 1 February 2026
| Great demo with good music! |
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Submitted by Shogoon on 1 February 2026
| Wow! What a flight ;) Beautiful soundtrack! |
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Submitted by Jetboy on 1 February 2026
| Great demo! Pleasure to watch! Lots of cool effects connected with style and story. Great graphics and sound. |
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Submitted by Katon on 1 February 2026
| Amazing ! Congratulation! |
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Submitted by HBH.ZTH on 1 February 2026
| I was floored watching this at the compo. I did not know what to expect, but what I saw and heard gave me goosebumps, speech impairment, amazement ... all positive states of mind. The demo is in a league of it's own. And it just kept going :) This is what keep the demoscene alive: demos stretching the boundaries of the C64 hardware. Thanks to all that made this diamond of a demo shine: Music, Programming, Design, Graphics, Loading ... |
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Submitted by DeeKay on 1 February 2026
| OMG, this is so good, prolly the best demo since 1337!.. |
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Submitted by Smasher on 1 February 2026
| great demo, very very enjoyable to watch. abduction and food is served parts made me laugh :) |
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Submitted by Ramon B5 on 1 February 2026
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Submitted by Ghost on 1 February 2026
| Now that's what I call entertainment, wooow, in every aspect. |
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Submitted by Epyx on 1 February 2026
| very entertaining, great demo |
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Submitted by Joe on 1 February 2026
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Submitted by Ko-Ko on 1 February 2026
| Hát ez ki..szott jó! / This is f..n gold! ❤ |
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Submitted by 4gentE on 1 February 2026
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Submitted by Asthor on 1 February 2026
| Beautiful, incredible production. Best of the compo! |
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Submitted by Mibri on 1 February 2026
| I like flying and I love this! A super classy (and funny!) production that I'll return to again and again. |
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Submitted by wacek on 1 February 2026
| Very, very nice one! In my opinion should have won the compo, but that's life I guess :) |
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Submitted by Trap on 1 February 2026
Seriously guys? This is X material!!! I am stunned. I love that you made the in-flight idea "fly", Quizz. You found the right flight crew to bring it to the skies. Really awesome. I personally enjoy good flow and story and this demo delivers ... and code porn of course - wouldn't expect less when you put these people in a room.
Thank you so much for a wonderful show! |
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Submitted by gegegege gugugugu on 1 February 2026
O_O
how on earth (pun unintended) could this lose? too slick, too pretty, too smooth? |
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Submitted by t0m3000 on 1 February 2026
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Submitted by Youth on 1 February 2026
| Loved every minute of it! Apart from the cool effects, very rewatchable even if just for the color grading and the luscious laid back music. Everything is so well balanced and soothing to the eyes and ears. Love it! |
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Submitted by Slaxx on 1 February 2026
| Awesome and fun to watch! |
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Submitted by Frost on 1 February 2026
| Imaginative! The fun, engaging and playful presentation really elevated the whole demo. Very nice effects, kickass music and the graphics...! I especially love Mermaids stuff, it makes me a special kind of warm and happy inside. It's a prime example of how important the presentation is fore the whole. Enjoyed every second of it in the compo! |
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Submitted by Eclipse on 1 February 2026
| Thank you very much for this fantastic trip. :-) A new dimension has opened up. |
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