22/08/2002
There's brand-new stuff for all you demo-junkies on the Demo Dungeon! HCL coded a little onefiler called Interruptus Retriggerus as a response to Crossbows Demus Interruptus . Have fun watching it!


18/08/2002
HVSC V5.0 has just been released. It is more meant to bring a new quality standard to SID music than to add new tunes to the collection, so be sure to get it on the HVSC homepage .
And as every HVSC update means a little bit of work for me as well, I updated the SID links to comply to the new HVSC structure. And while updating the 45 broken links I found quite a few minor bugs and glitches which I of course fixed as well.
Have a nice day, and don't get lost in the Demo Dungeon. ;-)


16/08/2002
The tune from the demo Feedback / Triad has just been ripped, enjoy!
By that occasion I'd like to thank all the fellow HVSC contributors for keeping up the effort of ripping all those lovely sidtunes and submitting them to the HVSC team which does a great work compiling, sorting and fixing them. Without you all SID fans all over the world woudn't have the possibility to listen to this vast amount and still wellsorted pack of sidtunes wherever and whenever they want, be it on your PC, Amiga or converted to mp3 in the subway through your mp3 player. :-)
Keep it up!


13/08/2002
Here's some food for all you oldschoolers! 4 new demos on the Demodungeon by the group LIGHT ! You've got to love this shit!


12/08/2002
Oh well, 11 new demos from TRIAD have been added today. I just couldn't leave my hands off it. ;-)


11/08/2002
Welcome on the Demo Dungeon!

As you probably noticed the general look and feel of the site have changed quite a bit. The changes are too numerous to mention, only so much: The redesign took me about 8 weeks hard work to finish, so keep your C64 torch burning! :-)
Here's a short summary of the changes:
  • Added about 100 demos!
  • Added comments for every single f$%&ing demo on this site!
  • New rating system, I dropped "effects" in favour of "design"
  • The buttons on the left are 100 pixels wide now instead of 200 before. This leaves more room for the important stuff.
  • Every group has their own button now, even if they only have one demo. This eliminates these stupid and confusing "Various" demos.
  • The navigation bar on top of the page has been redesigned. You can now select the group by letter of the alphabet.
  • Added external links for every demo to c64.ch , noname.c64.org/csdb and pouet.net . If the demo is on one of these sites you can jump directly to the demo and vote for it or read/write comments.
Well, that's about all I have to say today. As always, comments are more than appreciated, it's always funny getting feedback, both good and bad. So don't hesitate to leave a few lines in the guestbook or write an e-mail to the webmaster@demodungeon.com (that's me).
So enjoy browsing the new site and thanks for your ongoing support!


08/07/2002
Woohoo, here we go again! I know there's not much going on here on the Demo Dungeon lately. But believe me there's a huge update in the works you wouldn't even dare to think of. Stay tuned, it will be released in 4-8 weeks.
For now I just added some new SID tunes for you to enjoy, they're from the demo ILLMATIC by ELYSIUM.

Keep the C64 torch burning!


14/06/2002

Fundamental Changes!

There's been going on a lot of stuff on The Demo Dungeon. I'll take my time and explain all the major and minor changes to you:

  1. I was getting more and more annoyed by Tripod/Lycos, their advertisements on my site and their awfully bad support. My anger reached its climax when they deleted one of my other accounts because I uploaded my own mp3s of which I own the copyright. I wrote them a more than angry letter and still have got no reply two weeks later. I decided to move on to another webspace provider which costs me a few bucks a month, but which has various advantages over nearly all those free-webspace providers:
    Better support, better reliability and reachability, much faster and less crowded servers. If you expect to see lots of advertisement banners here soon to compensate my additional expense you have thought wrong: The Demo Dungeon will always be ad-free , of course apart from the Padua Banner exchange.
    So please bookmark the new URL now:

    www.demodungeon.com

    will be the adress of your choice in the future.
    The old redirector demodungeon.c64.org will hopefully soon be updated to send you here directly.
  2. Due to limited webspace I decided to finally remove the GIF section of my site. Those who still use such old browsers that can't display PNG graphics are strongly encouraged to upgrade to state-of-the-art software. Netscape 4 users can still browse the site, but those who still use this browser might miss out on the transparency in PNGs, hence the black background that "just doesn't look right". ;-)
    PNG offers much better compression than GIF, besides, it's a free format unlike GIF. And I'm sure that it will be the future standard for web-graphics with lossless compression.
  3. For the same reason I converted all the zip archives of my downloadable demos to ace archives. Winace also offers better compression than Winzip, and that saved me another 2 MB of webspace.
  4. I decided to remove the forum from my site. It didn't show the success I expected (well, I didn't expect much anyway), and there are better forums on the net to discuss C64-related stuff. And apart from that I was really annoyed by the popups and banners and advertisements of ezboard.com, sometimes you had a hard time finding the real forum... ;-)
  5. An update on the DEMO DUNGEON wouldn't be a real update without some new demos, right? So here they are:
    I finished the EXTEND section and added the demos, Orivesi, Tapola, Kuppa 2, Hunger Part One and Café Lamer. I also replaced the old and ugly screenshots of the demos Total Epygt (no: it's EPYGT and not EGYPT!) and Orangi with new and much nicer ones.
  6. And now for something very special:
    As I haven't seen them on the whole internet, I decided to take my digital camera, visit a friend with a C128 and take pictures of RISEN FROM OBLIVION / CREST running on the real machine. The quality is not too good, but time was limited and the camera was brandnew, so I didn't know how to use it properly. :-)
    Enjoy!


05/05/2002
Imagine there's a company that registered their brand-name AFTER you registered your internet domain adress of the same name. Do you think they should be allowed to snatch the domain from the original owner and take it over? Of course you don't, I know. But this is happening right now with AIRPORT1.DE !!!
Marc Bufe aka NyLoN has really built up one of those rare gems on the net where you can spend hours (really) reading his articles without getting bored. He deals with lots of topics in a very critical way, such as death penalty, use and abuse of drugs, AIDS and of course with our beloved Commodore 64 and Computers in general.
Check out his site (if you understand german) and support him by signing the e-mail petition or link the "Save Airport1!" banner on your website. Thank you!
HVSC 4.6 is out! Get it on www.hvsc.c64.org .
Of course I already updated The Demo Dungeon with the changed relative paths. Seeya!


25/04/2002
3 new Albion demos on The Demo Dungeon:
  1. Guards of Apocalypse
  2. Fatality
  3. Excalibur
  4. The demo Hallucinations was moved from Various to the Albion section.


18/04/2002
Finally I managed to work over the COSINE section. Enjoy the new screenshots as well as the three new demos:
  • Rollover
  • INC D021
  • INC D020
Technically not too amazing (as far as I can judge that), but they really have neat design with some fresh ideas and of course great music. Later!


14/04/2002
Minor update due to lack of time:
In my ongoing effort of replacing the old screenshots I can announce the complete renewal of the COMA section. More screenshots overall and, the main reason why I'm doing this, with much nicer colours thanks to Pepto's palette .
Hope you still have fun in the Demo Dungeon!

Coming soon: New screenshots of all the COSINE stuff and two new Cosine demos.


01/04/2002
Mekka/Symposium 2002 is over, and apart from some nice graphics and SIDs it has brought us another really outstanding and funny demo:
La Linea 85% by Breeze.
It doesn't contain any supercool code and jawdropping effects, it's just a cute little animation cartoon. And if you see a demo mentioned on this page you know that it's worth checking out, don't you! ;-)
So go ahead, download it and enjoy!

Another production that has been released on Mekka/Symposium 2002 is Evolution by Warriors of the Wastelands. I'll add it to the Demo Dungeon at a later time, but you can already get it from the Padua FTP site Goin' For Gold!

There's been some changes left to mention:
  • I updated the links page, removed the C= Wire and added some friendly sites that also link me.
  • I registered a forum at ezboard.com. I'm not sure if this is going to be useful to you, but feel free to post whatever comes to your mind. You'll find the link in the navigation bar on top of the page, or get directly to the forum by clicking here.
    As always, feedback and suggestions are more than welcome, so don't hesitate to mail me: webmaster@demodungeon.com is the adress.


05/03/2002
Allright guys, just a quick one for all you newschoolers:
I shouldn't write stuff here and be in university to meet my Prof instead, but this one HAS to be revealed to the public:

SMASH DESIGNS have finally released their winning demo from THE PARTY 2001!
It's called DECADE and it's now considered to be 100%. I doubt that the last part is realtime, but judge for yourself. Check it out, it's really cool stuff nevertheless!


29/02/2002
What's new today? Not much, except for that it's raining outside and so I took myself some time to completely rework the CREST section. Now there are more/better/nicer/blablabla screenshots, you probably already know the deal... ;-)

And by the way: To suit the needs of you oldschool-freaks I also added another demo, Ice Cream Castle by Crest. It's long, it's colourful and you have full interactivity by using the spacebar, the joystick in port 2, the Commodore key and also the Restore key.

Short commercial break: Did you know I have a guestbook? No? Well, look up to the top of the screen, this cute little button is desperately waiting to get hit by your beloved mousepointer. So don't hesitate, signing it is free today! :-)


25/02/2002
And again a new demo at The Demo Dungeon !
It's called Defloration by Fraction, released in 1998 at the North Party in Poland. It scored 1st place there and is a very nice designed piece of code!



While being at it I replaced all the screenshots of Fraction demos with new ones (you know, the better palette...) and added more animated gifs.



The official release of Soiled Legacy 85% is now replacing the old party-version. It now contains a note-file as well as the demo tunes in separate files. (We're still waiting for the final 100% version to come out, though.)
Thanks Warren, for pointing me to it!
I also ripped the tunes from this fabulous demo, so you can now download and enjoy this great music by Glenn Rune Gallefoss, or listen to it online if you have the SIDPLUG installed.


18/02/2002
Back in business again. Well, seems Tripod finally managed to overcome their problems by completely reworking the complete service... Small disadvantage was that your beloved Demo Dungeon was offline again for another 2 weeks. Well, let's hope this was the last downtime this year.

So what has changed in the last 2 weeks?
  • Added a Booze Design demo: Happy Birthday! Cute little onefiler with nice'n'slim design and music.
  • Reworked all the screenshots of Breeze demos, also found out about the hidden part in Lone Star. Now guess what...it's of course already on the site, but as usual you have to find the hidden link (come on, it's really easy, I know you can find it). A look at the source code might be useful! ;-)
  • Finally I completed the most neglected group in the Demo Dungeon:
    Byterapers demos now all have screenshots, I guess I was just too lazy to add them in the beginning... But better late than never.

Advice of the week for all you out there: Take everything with a grain of salt, including yourself! ;-)


30/01/2002
The Demo Dungeon is back online! I'm really sorry for the long downtime, it's been about 10 days now. Somehow all my files have vanished from the server while at the same time I couldn't log in to reupload them. But the problems should be fixed now. Expect some downloads not to work until tomorrow night, but if you really want to get a demo urgently I suggest you use one of the big ftps like Banana Repulic or visit C64.CH instead.
I've created quite a huge backlog during the last 10 days, mostly new screenshots and some more hidden parts, so you can expect some forthcoming updates.