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Looking for Xenon-1 demo
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 8:47 am
by Symoon
Hi all,
Has anyone got the Xenon-1 demo version? It was sold on Ebay long ago, and I was told by the buyer that it was a demo of the game simply playing in loop, but he re-sold it by then.
I'd be really curious to see it, it was packaged in the usual Xenon-1 case but IIRC the tape was stamped "DEMO".
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 7:43 pm
by Dbug
Interesting, never heard of that one!
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 9:16 pm
by Symoon
Found back the picture:
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 1:01 pm
by coco.oric
waow
one of the first demos in the computing industry ?
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 4:20 pm
by Symoon
coco.oric wrote:waow
one of the first demos in the computing industry ?
1st one? I'd rather bet for the Oric-1 demo !
Re: Looking for Xenon-1 demo
Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 7:54 pm
by Godzil
What is funny, is that making "demo" tape like this should cost nearly the same price as the complete version
Re: Looking for Xenon-1 demo
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 3:58 am
by robcook
Whoa, I had no idea anything like this existed. I assume this was for use in shops, to show the games working?
Re: Looking for Xenon-1 demo
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 8:00 am
by ibisum
I knew the distributor of Oric in Australia back in the day, and these DEMO tapes were distributed for shops to have something running on the Oric hardware - as far as I can remember, they had a mode where they just 'scrolled' through a bunch of screenshots or something, some sort of gimmick that the regular playing game didn't need.
There were a few other DEMO tapes, if I remember correctly, based on my recollection of the Warehouse in Australia (Melbourne) at the time.
Re: Looking for Xenon-1 demo
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 4:27 pm
by dave3622
robcook wrote:Whoa, I had no idea anything like this existed. I assume this was for use in shops, to show the games working?
That's right. It's thanks to this demo that I got an Oric-1 when I was only 11. I would probably have ended up with a ZX Spectrum if this demo hadn't been running on a TV next to the Computer displays in our local COMET store in Halifax.
Re: Looking for Xenon-1 demo
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 6:03 pm
by Symoon
I found the tape and transferred it a few months ago - here it is!
EDIT: Oric-1 only!
Re: Looking for Xenon-1 demo
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 9:39 pm
by ibisum
Doesn't load for me .. I just get a black screen, looks like its in HIRES mode after failing to run something ..
Re: Looking for Xenon-1 demo
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 12:03 pm
by Symoon
ibisum wrote:Doesn't load for me .. I just get a black screen, looks like its in HIRES mode after failing to run something ..
Use a ROM 1.0
Works on Euphoric here (ROM 1.1 has the symptoms you describe)
Re: Looking for Xenon-1 demo
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 1:51 pm
by ibisum
Ah, makes sense. Will try it and let you know ..