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No - not those ones! This page refers to the Swedish Atari ST demo programming group. The CareBears (TCB) wrote intros and demos and broke a few records along the way. Later they released games under the Thalion software label.
Due to a lack of webspace I do not have the ST disk images on the web site but they can be found on other web sites. As far as I know no single web site has them all. If you need a particular one then I can send it by email.
In 2001 I rewrote The Grodan and The Kvack Kvack Demo screen using DirectX on the PC. I mailed Nic, he saw the demo and I got a nice reply. This page summarises their work.
The Lost Boys (TLB) were British and they also made fantastic demos but continued for longer than TEX and TCB. Their Oh Crickey What a Scorcher demo is in my opinion better than The Cuddly Demo. They made games with TEX but also continued to make demos until 1992.
TEX, TCB, TLB, Delta Force, Overlanders and Replicants were known as The Union and The Union Demo in 1989 was a collaborative work mainly attributed to TEX. It is a land mark in ST demo programming.
The rest of this page concentrates solely on TCB. They broke ST programming records such as sprites on screen, fullscreen programming, hardware (sync) scrolling and sound tracker players using a minimum CPU time. They had a very scientific approach to programming, using clock cycle counting to perfect hardware scrolling. They were the FIRST to do these things on the ST, making them heroes.
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Famous for: Programming, Major work: Enchanted Lands, Great demo: Grodan and The Kvack Kvack (So Watt). Current status: See below. |
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Famous for: Programming, Major work: Enchanted Lands, Great demo: Flashback. Current status: See below. |
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Famous for: Programming, graphics, music, Major work: TCB Tracker, Great demo: Tech-Tron. Current status: Network Consultant with Net Insight. |
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Famous for: Graphics, Major work: Enchanted Lands, Great demo: SoWatt. Current status: Unknown. |
Niclas Thisell and Andreas Suurkuusk both studied computer science at KTH.
Nowadays they run a small company called SciTech Software AB (no, not Display-Doctor-SciTech). They were pretty busy doing thermocalorimetric software for a while, a little webmastering and Java and ActiveX components. Recently Andreas Suurkuusk found leaks in the Microsoft .NET framework.
Tanis also produced art-work for Eclipse software and Thalion and graphics for the game Lethal Xcess.
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The last screen from one of the best groups on the ST. Nice 3D intro and soundtrack. |
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Another great demo from TCB with the help of the most famous Swedish groups. It contains a lot of fullscreens so it is better on a real ST or the SainT emulator.
The Grodan and The Kvack Kvack and Tech-Tron screens are amazing! |
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6 screen demo by TCB, Sync and Omega. TCB screen has very big sprites! |
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Here it is, one of the most famous ST megademo ever made. It contains all the brilliant effects that will be used by demos: Fullscreens, soundtracker, sync scrolling... I have a version patched for the STE by Leonard. |
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As usual, an excellent demo by the Swedish groups. This demo is NOT STE compatible so choose the TOS version carefully. |
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3 screen little demo. Great graphics. This demo is NOT STE compatible so choose the TOS version carefully. |
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Nice little sample demo with animation, sprites and scrollers. |
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Sample demo with scrolling and sprites. |
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"I have everything really - a 4Mb STE with a 30Mb hard drive, colour monitor and external drive."
Picture from ST Format, Issue 16, November 1990. |
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The last M demo from TCB. Still stunning and including 2 little games: TRON and PONG. 2 disks. |
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This is part 3 of A.N. Cool M-Demo series. It's quite weird with lousy sounds but it is original. Heavy metal rules. Bonus: music from screen 1 and screen 2. |
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STE Only. 1Mb. Hardware scrolling. 4096 colours. |
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This is the first tiny M-Demo. 'M' stands for -Music- and M-Demo 1,2,3 and 4 were not mega demos. |
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Sample demo with digitised graphics of Samantha Fox! |
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Reasonable sample demo in the days of 8 bit samples and 720k disks! |
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Sample demo. |
POV098, TCB Replicants intro, 1991
POV097, A.N. Cool demo 1, 1991
POV096, A.N. Cool new intro, 1991
POV066, TCB Tracker Demo 1 1990, 1991
POV050, TCB Tracker Demo 2, 1990
POV037, Cracked games intro, 1990
POV036, Amiga joke demo, 1990
POV025, A.N Cool STE demo, 1990
POV023, TCB Tracker Demo, 1990
ST Magazine 5 intro, 1990
ST News International Christmas Coding Conference
Dead Hackers Society
Demo List
Lethal Xcess
PaCidemo
L.A.P.D.
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