Looking for Xenon-1 demo
Looking for Xenon-1 demo
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".
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".
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What is funny, is that making "demo" tape like this should cost nearly the same price as the complete version
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Whoa, I had no idea anything like this existed. I assume this was for use in shops, to show the games working?
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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.
There were a few other DEMO tapes, if I remember correctly, based on my recollection of the Warehouse in Australia (Melbourne) at the time.
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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.robcook wrote:Whoa, I had no idea anything like this existed. I assume this was for use in shops, to show the games working?
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I found the tape and transferred it a few months ago - here it is!
EDIT: Oric-1 only!
EDIT: Oric-1 only!
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Doesn't load for me .. I just get a black screen, looks like its in HIRES mode after failing to run something ..
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Use a ROM 1.0ibisum wrote:Doesn't load for me .. I just get a black screen, looks like its in HIRES mode after failing to run something ..
Works on Euphoric here (ROM 1.1 has the symptoms you describe)
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Ah, makes sense. Will try it and let you know ..