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greenlig
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2011 02:07
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Hi guys,

What are the oldest DarkBASIC demos you still have kicking around? I'd love to player them for purely nostalgic reasons

I think I have Lightcycles somewhere, and probably Axes of Evil.

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Greenlig

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BMacZero
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Posted: 6th Sep 2011 23:07 Edited at: 7th Sep 2011 18:38
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I could probably find Raven Assault Squadron, loved that game .

EDIT: http://www.caiman.us/scripts/fw/f1002.html

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old_School
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Posted: 7th Sep 2011 05:46
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I think guess my number would be the oldest since thats the orginal demo game I think.
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Dazzag
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Posted: 7th Sep 2011 10:55
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Oldest demo I remember was that Dr Av marble madness effort. Probably about 2000. Doubt I have a download though. I did a Trail Blazer clone in about 2001 but again dunno where the code is

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MikeS
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Posted: 8th Sep 2011 00:07
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The two Equilibrium demos were what made me purchase DarkBasic Pro at the time. Those demos and especially their presentation are still excellent in my opinion.



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Hubdule
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Posted: 8th Sep 2011 09:37 Edited at: 8th Sep 2011 10:05
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Darkland is still up

http://www.colorarts.de/darkland/darkindex.htm

And there's a hidden update for it too:
http://www.colorarts.de/darkland/dlupd.zip

Simply download the demo from the first page and then download the second one and copy the files into your darkland folder

Have fun with it

[update]
Oh and for nostaliga reasons (and because it's now 10 years later!) there's also a secret game included in the main menu. Simply click on "Credits" and then doubleclick on the upper right corner of the window.

[update_2]
Press Space in the game to jump

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greenlig
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Posted: 8th Sep 2011 10:48
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Fantastic, Hubdule! I remember drooling over Darkland all those years ago.

Does anyone have Cyber Control Alpha? Does DigAw still haunt these parts?

We should definitely create a DB Retro Games Archive. It'd be worth it!

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Greenlig

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 8th Sep 2011 11:06
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Quote: "The two Equilibrium demos were what made me purchase DarkBasic Pro at the time. Those demos and especially their presentation are still excellent in my opinion."


They were awesome. I liked the fact they released the source code too, but back then I didn't understand how it worked, I'd love to get my hands on that again...especially as I'm trying to work on a game with similar gameplay. If anybody has a link that still works, I would appreciate it.

And I wonder whatever happened to the guys who made it, I remember they were working on some other projects and then one day, their website just disappeared.

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Zotoaster
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Posted: 8th Sep 2011 12:42
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I don't have any around, which sucks because I'm getting all nostalgic just thinking about them.

Does anyone remember Pea Guy? It was amazing!

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Hubdule
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Posted: 8th Sep 2011 16:26 Edited at: 8th Sep 2011 16:36
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hm, I found some more stuff on our good old ColorArts server Enjoy ...

http://www.colorarts.de/gc/ballon.zip
http://www.colorarts.de/bigland/bigland.zip
http://www.colorarts.de/fleckbuster/
http://www.colorarts.de/fleckbuster2/
http://www.colorarts.de/syncon/casyncondemo.zip
http://www.colorarts.de/thelostegg/
http://www.colorarts.de/tube/tube.zip
http://www.colorarts.de/xmas/snowland.zip
http://www.colorarts.de/xmas/xmas.zip <- ok that one was DBPro ...
http://www.colorarts.de/synconold/syncon.zip

Can't believe it's nearly 10 years ago ...

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_Pauli_
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Posted: 8th Sep 2011 20:15
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Hey,
quite a nice stack of games!
just tried Ballon: cool idea
But I don't want to hurt my keyboard that much

And Snowland looked nice, too. You could have easily made that into a great game, like let players run around the houses and throw snowballs or something...

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Posted: 8th Sep 2011 23:45
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Oh Em Gee Darkland, that was Fricken' amazing.

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