Demo Fun #11

Today's demo is Psymon's Kettle. It can be found here.

Our picture has a flying kettle with a face on it. There's also a jug with an eye on it. There's some computers flashing in the backgrough and the whole thing is very cheerful looking. "Kettle" is in big letters and to the side we can see "Vandy." There's a little green helicopter (kettle-copter?) that it's the background.

Our author today is Psymon. Yeesh. If this guy's real name is Simon, I hope he got a couple wedgies in his youth. This must be an old demo, since it starts out with the credits. The music is done by WE MUSIC. The picture is done by THE Vandy. Psymon did everything else from the character set to the flashing computer things.

Psymon wants to get things started about a minute in by thanking a few "Peeple." Uh huh. Vandy gets thanks for uploading the demo. Wow, Psymon has the power to thank people for stuff after they did it. Ian&Mic are thanked for a Dragon's Lair 2 extraction that has nothing to do with this demo. Psymon mentions that there's a second song if you push 2. Hey, hackers loved the C64 because they could steal well done music files. Why not shove a few extra tunes into a demo?

Psymon is now boring us with the details about this demo. It took two days to program. The piccy (groan) took two weeks to make, although Vandy supposedly worked on it off and on. Psymon always has to have electro sound music in his demos, but he's missing the proggy. (ugh!) Anyone who could provide them that program in whatever was the Bit Torrent of the eighties will be thanked with a mega mention in Psymon's next demo.

Psymon tells us that Vandy will soon bore us for about 10k. That's an odd thing to be specific about. Still, Psymon will be back in time to list a bunch of other nerds. I can hardly wait.

Vandy says hello and asks us what we think of the piccy? Vandy admits that we probably think it's c**p, although I reserve that word for his/her word for picture. Vandy blames the fact that he had to use a joystick instead of a mouse. The idea for the picture comes from an advertisement seen in a magazine. Vandy dedicates the picture to the guy at cnet who got Vandy online. Vandy asks whether anybody had problems getting online after using cnet's modem. Uh, it was the eighties; who cared about the internet? Vandy proves he's not the only one with that problem by mentioning a friend of his that hasn't gotten on after two months. Wow, dial-up was REALLY slow back then.

Vandy starts babbling about something brought to him by someone named Skin'ed. It's called jailbreak (a demo?) and whatever it is, it "is'nt" BASIC. Vandy completed whatever it is. Psymon is now on Vandy's case so Vandy says goodbye.

Psymon returns and supposes that we're just dying for him to list a bunch of nerdy aliases. See, normal people wouldn't care, so I guess this is what seperates hackers from the rest of us.

Here we go: Mic&Ian (who are shockingly referred to as Theifs!), Pleb, Flug, Smegg, Thargoid (I'm actually wondering if someone is playing a prank on me), Wizard, Gronk, Tony, Colin, Lugy, Skin'ed, Boz, Dal Miv The Dingers, Hugh, Jaybird, Huddy, Meanteam, Torky (WHAT?!), Daz, Kernal, Hex, Ocean Software Company, Ratt & Benn, Panther, X-Rayz, Gi-Jo, Galivan, Diblogic, Yak, Tim, 1001, Zzap! 64, Commando's, Death (WHY THANK YOU!), TMC, Three Weelin' Franklin, Lee at Software Plus!, Marky, ECS, Weffry, Omega Man, the anti 1 Voters! (Vote NO on question one!), Matty, Hagar, All 9 VOTERS!!! (Question one passed in a landslide!), Fosh, Bush, Xess, ASCII... (OK, I GIVE UP! I'm not listing anymore!)

Psymon finally says good bye because this demo needs to be uploaded. After a bunch of garbage text, Psymon tells us to turn the demo off before it starts repeating. Hey, no need to tell me that twice!








Stats:

Date - 1980s.
Scrolling text - Standard.
Font - White.
Europeans - They use the word mate instead of friend, so it's a safe bet.
Bragging about Accomplishments - Vandy downplays his picture.
Putting other hackers down - Nope.
Listing a ton of other nerds - Yep.
Harsh language - Nope.
Song - The second song has a little Safety Dance in the background. I give no score because I'm tired.