Extacy-3
This piece of writing is yet more detail on the Spectrum PD coders of
the world. This one in particular is about 'Extacy-3', a British team
(for once). The reason this file is here and some others didn't get a
mention is partly cos I know them so well (despite them living miles
and miles away in Bristol), and partly cos they are a very good team
of coders. And I CAN spell it right, it's meant to be like that up
above!
They are quite an active bunch between them, with two coders, one
of which is a good Speccy musician, a very good graphics artist -
when I've got time I'll upload a few of their slideshows. Another
couple of allround bods and that's XTC-3 (as another shortening quite
often used) rounded up.
Members of Extacy-3 and addresses:
- Bogie
- Alec Logie
- 23 Petersway Gardens
- St.George
- Bristol
- BS5 8TA
- Legless Addict/LA
- Neil Laws
- 14 De Verose Court
- Hanham,
- Bristol
- BS15 3SQ
- Gwi
- Brainer
- K-os
- Zack
Here then is a list of the demos and other programs produced by this
team so far, although the ftp links are not working as I write (the files
are still in incoming, and they're as .TAP files mainly due to being
multiloaders):
- Subsonic - a few tunes made with Soundtracker
- Linez - copied basic idea of Song In Lines 5, but different. (?)
- One
Tooo Many - written in 24hrs over a weekend in a secret
location, lots of drinking, slagging off and completely mad.
Pretty good really. This ftp link won't work until the file has
been moved to the place I expect it to be (it's been/is in
'incoming').
- Subsonic 2 - more tunes than the first, and a snazzy scroller
- Mindwarp
- with a fake reset, and poor first 3 parts but the last bit
is good. One of my favourite of their demos. This link also
will not work for same reason as OTM above.
- Kraft
- another of my favourites (espec part 2), megademo with
all-sorts of effects and texts to read in scrollers.
- Mindless - err. guess from the name, quite silly.
- Stolen Data - graphics, and songs, and other stuff - quite big
- Insanity - I never seem to remember a lot about this but no doubt
its good. Insanity 2: Pippilea is following sometime.
- Ren & Stimpy slideshow - as it says.
- Subliminal
Extacy diskmag #0, a trial one. ftp link not working yet
(see above).
- One Tooo Many 2! - crazy demo made in a day in the style of the
first one, (still quite big though for the time spent on it).
- Sam Coupe-A Total Piss Take - made with the United Minds
after a Spectrum/ SAM show (I was there too! Had to go home
before that though).
- Inner Universe - biggest demo I've yet seen, 299K compressed
one of the best yet although to me some of it seems a little samey.
Maybe thats just cos I've seen it so many times!
From the raytraced part (don't boggle,
it's not really real-time raytracing on the Spectrum!).
- Subliminal
Extacy #1 - number one of their tape/diskzine (although its
large so disk is recommended - whether Spectrum/MS-DOS!). Another
non-working ftp link (sorry)
- ESP - Written with the help of Icabod,
a graphics and effects demos with a few parts (I'll see it soon).