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Cafe Odd was our first demo. It was released at The Party 1993 in Herning.

What you see here is one of the intropictures.




We had not much luck with this demo. Ofcourse we wanted to take part in the democompetition, and our demo was finnished in time, but then: The party was lousy organized and there were lots of 64-demos, so they said, that there won't be time enough to show all entrys.

This is the 1st part with some fireworks, also in the lower border.




Here you see the 2nd part with a dot-landscape.

So there was build up a jury with a member of each group, who should decide, which 10 out of the 20 demos should be in the competition.




And guess what? Everybody voted just for the lame demos, that their own would have better chances. And so Cafe Odd did not qualify for the competition.

Btw., in the 4th part we had some rasterlines, a logo-tech-tech and one dxyp-sprite over it ;-).




Here you see the plasma-part. There is a little story about this: Somehow in the hectic of the last ours before the deadline there came an old version of this part in the demo. There should be an $d016-interlace over the plasma, but in this version it's static.
Well, I hope, I'm forgiven for telling this story now ;-).




It was a really sad thing for us, that our demo wasn't shown at the big screen. I would give it a objective place amongst the top 5 at The Party. We had routines and design, which became common years later (I only say "trackmos") and is high class until today.




This is the loader screen with some "odd" texts. And all the time we have playing a lengthy, 7 minutes or so, double-speed-music (in a trackmo!). In the border is an equalizer.




Another never-seen-before part, the XOR-part. 2 vertical and 2 horizontal lines and the text are scrolling unregulary over the screen and inverting the colors.




The scroller says: Do you remember binary arithmetic?




This is an unlimited bobs-part. All the balls are moving.




The fast screenfiller. Popular in this time. Btw., I noticed an bug running it with CCS64. So go and get a real C 64.




Well, this is a small plotter...




...and this a dotscroller. The text says: Do you like discburgers?




This is one of the many low-res pictures we had together with an 2 voices, 4 bits with different speed sample-music. And guess what, this has been the base for the Reflex-Tracker.




Cafe Odd is for sure one of the 3 demos I would take with me on a lonely island. It just creates a special feeling with it's music, graphic, code and design.

*it's magic*

;-)




What you see here is the frontside of the official disccover and the limited original disc with sticker we spread for free at the party.




And this is the backside. The cover was drawn by Felidae/Reflex, who is a real artist today.