Here comes a Codef remake of the ST NEWS Volume 4 Issue 2 mono demo by Digital Insanity (Atari STF), released on April 1st 1989.

Monochrome demo, with CRT emulator.

For this issue, Stefan Posthuma (Digital Insanity) went further with his monochrome demo, called Mad Miracle. Richard Karsmakers remembers it in his history of the magazine: “The monochrome demo featured sloping, double sloping, wobbling, sinussing and baby-sinussing scrollers in a kind of passively interactive scroll message. One of the best he ever did.”

Stefan had already finished the colour demo of this issue when the previous one came out, and wrote in its editorial: “It is the best thing I have ever programmed on any computer”. Both demos were on the disk of ST NEWS Volume 4 Issue 2, an issue dedicated to Jean Michel Jarre, and so full that it needed a disk format of 11 sectors per track.

This remake was made for the new ST NEWS website, where the demos of each issue run in the browser (see ST NEWS #stnewsreborn). The colour demo of this issue was remade by Karl Cullen.

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