|  Moldi's Treasure 9/10 | | Posted by Luca on 2015-12-15 |
We're unstoppable! Once we gain thrust, nothing can push us away from our target: just after few days since we've released the 8th bunch of rare and unseen software taken from the Moldi's magic chest, here comes the 9th to make clear light toward the overall completion of this mission. We're now one step close to the end!
 This 9th shipment brings to light several "first productions" from the dawn of the scene, demos which we've thought to be lost forever in the mists of time, starting from that First From Genius demo just present into our archives but found to be buggy and impossible to fix. Now we can actually see the beginnings of DCD's career in the scene. The same can be said regarding CSM Demo, a far dated demo of which nowadays the author himself doesn't have any clue about; and can be said about Demodemo, the very first TBC production, where we still can see evidencies of both Hitman and siz's previous alter egos. Again, Beastie Boys Digi Mix by The Codebuster is the most ancient demo we saw from him (1988!), Color Routine, dated October 1990, is the first KRUK demo that buries Krussoft once forever, and Big Bear's first steps in software swapping have found statement with The Bear Demo. Last but not least, My Dream Cars by Catwheezle beats all the previous demos in being a real antique, 'coz we're talking about May 1988, the real outset of the Plus/4 demoscene.
Just to swell the Masters Of Dragon program list, there's another stuff from Catwheezle which goes place itself into a longlasting saga that's far to be completely explained: Cracker Ball 3. Another tile reaches the right place, and maybe one day the whole story will get completed. On the other hand, nobody did know about Logo Game, which now represents the very last software Reddi did release before his disappearance: logical game with SID/TED music, a big and uncredited logo drawn by Unreal, an interesting intro and the last time the Scorpions tag can be seen around ever. Again from the games' side, the rule has been respected even this time: the more you dig into Moldi's Treasure, the more prods from LEH jump out: Asteroids 2, Kincsebarlang and the graphic editor Grafitor V2.1 are the nowadays examples. Another unlimited source of continuous surprises is the Gentlemen catalog: we were almost sure to have the 100% of their productions, but we didn't get in count how prolific W-Man & friends have been. Hence, No Limits! and Stakker Humanoid have come to complete our database.
 This 9th bunch doesn't miss to give us some rarities and uniques. Cocom Demo? Never heard of it before! And now we rediscover stuff which seemed to be removed from the memory of the scene. Devil Head Demo is a rare one, a second demo from István Ignácz, who's been credited of one sure release only, before this finding. And we can say the same about Music Simulator 2 by RTS, the digi demo which definitely links the tag RTS we've read in several scrolltexts from ancient demos, to Norbert Bernáth's "Riszpong Tilogramma Software". Unfortunately, if the latter mystery has been solved, the dark aura surrounding Toxic still remains, although there's a Last From Toxic message which might link his nick to the author of Blasting Bob Backup utility. Oh, and Franky: who's Franky who coded Game Music II?
Unexpectedly, Tiger has released an improved version of his previous utilities collection, called Tiger Disk Utility V2.1, containing a couple of well known tools of unknown version, like Duplicator V3.2 and Turbonibbler V2.0. abcug's Register 2000 software database editor also has come up, and in the end, now we have a disk working crack of Optika, produced by Octasoft and distributed by Novotrade at the times, though we're still in search of TAP files, scans and in general all the commercial stuff around it.
So, here we are! Let's have the complete list of incoming software, today for the 9th time. And the next will be the very last, so don't run too far away from our shores: Optika, Directory Director, Az Itélet Napja, Tiger Disk Utility V2.1, Register 2000, Grafitor V2.1, Easy Turbo +4, Easy Turbo 3, Caddimat C116, Digimixer (version), Disk Cracker, Adatbank, The Disc Wizard (version), ROM-control +, ROM Modifier V1.0, Elektromos Teljesítmény (Táblázat 2), Profimon, Disk Format System V3.0, Flash Demo, No Limit!, Stakker Humanoid, Demodemo, First From Genius (fix), Beastie Boys Digi Mix, CSM Demo, Color Routine, Music Simulator 2, Game Music II, Cocom Demo, Devil Head Demo, The Bear Demo, My Dream Cars, Last From Toxic, Csomagoló Üzem, Flipper (AMA), Kincsebarlang, Handel, Wirtschafts Manager, Plus/4 Invaders, Asteroids (Soft Vawe), Asteroids 2, Cracker Ball 3, Rohamkukac C-16, Logo Game, Diamond Hunter (Hungarian), Break-Out (Mac-Copies), Duplicator V3.2, Turbonibbler V2.0. |
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