Re: Really good Apple IIGS sound/music?

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

On Fri, 16 May 2008 12:41:56 -0400, "Jeff Blakeney"
<jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-1078-this> wrote:

>  To: Mitchell Spector
>On Fri, 16 May 2008 05:17:31 -0400, Mitchell Spector wrote:
>
>>     Interesting, it's written by the Italian group I.Ci.A. That reminds
>> me, I have another one of their demos called "IFFing Volume 2" that 
>> has another nice example of above average IIgs music! I got it off a 
>> local BBS 18 years ago and haven't seen it anywhere else. I can 
>> upload a copy if anyone wants to have a look, although it doesn't 
>> run on the ROM 3. I wonder if there were any other demos from 
>> I.Ci.A out there (maybe an IFFing Vol 1?).
>
>Count me in for wanting to see it.  I hadn't heard of the Monkey Island
>Demo before either so I've grabbed a copy.

    I just created a 2MG disk-image so I could have a look at it in 
an emulator (again, because of the ROM 3 incompatibility). You're
welcome to it, but is there an active Apple II FTP site to upload 
software like this so it's not eventually lost?

>That group and those demos are not listed at NinjaForce's "IIGS Demo
>Scene reviewed" site at:
>
>    http://www.ninjaforce.com/html/special_demoscene.html

    There are others missing as well, probably because they were
done by lesser known groups or didn't qualify as true demos. For
example, I don't see IBM Killers demo, Bullwinkle's LastRites '93
demo, all those menu-based ACS mini demos or Tim Meekin's
Software Experience demos. It'd be neat to have someone
create a website (a la Gaming Fairway) of IIgs demos. 

     Having another look all these years later, I just noticed this is
actually called "G-Iffing Volume 2". It's a musical 256 color slide 
slow with some scrolling text taking shots at the Amiga mainly.
Nothing very exciting, but it does have the same nice stereo 
panning effects and ear filling music as Monkey Island.

Mitchell Spector