Demoniak is a very well known discmag on CPC. We released 7 issues, and are planning to make a new one. It should have been done before, but well, we were too busy coding something else !

Quick demoniak index : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

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Even though Demoniak 8 is far from ready, we have began it. The interface has been recoded (shame on me !) to allow improvments, like rasters and graphics integration with a specific palettes and mode. The eighth issue should be on one side only, in order to release the next ones at a faster rate. First we'll make a french version, an english one may come soon after if we find some people to help us for the translations, which is a very big work. But don't worry, we'll talk about this when the time has come. Just think that while we don't work on Demoniak, we're working on something else :).

Demoniak 6 was a dissapointment for me. I didn't write as many texts as I wanted, I wasn't satisfied of the overall feedback (the discmag was badly spread), and the Arkos team was falling apart. Orphee was studying in Ireland, and Rainbird was in the US... So I took the rein of Arkos, and decided to code another Demoniak, with a new interface, and full of (crunched:) texts. Even though I wrote most of them, Orphee did some too, as well as some guests. As we couldn't get contact with Rainbird, he simply didn't appear in the issue. Its success was very pleasant. The best articles are the ones talking about the 'scene', and most notably the ones that criticize it :). All was made for us to produce Demoniak issues very quickly, but for some reasons it didn't happen. Demoniak 7 remains the best issue up to date.

Demoniak 6 marked a major change : no more demo-parts ! We decided to use a single interface for all the texts, like discmags on PC. It allowed us to concentrate on writing texts. The interface was coded by Orphee, but he really lacked time, so it was a bit buggy, recoded three times, not as good as it could have been. It remains a very nice issue, thanks to the quality and quantity of the texts. Even though the first release was made on 2 discs, Chany (a well known french Cracker) released a version in one disc only ! He did this miracle simply by... compacting the texts ! The version you can download is his. Thanks a lot Chany !

Demoniak 5 uses the same principle as Demoniak 4 : each part is some kind of a demo. Each one is a challenge to code, we always had to find new ideas, and at the end we got a bit bored by this. It prevented us to do what Demoniak needed us to : write texts ! Also, we all began to lack time. It's a very good issue, with a lot of cool technics and numerous texts, but it was a pain to create.

Demoniak 4 was a major step for us, even more than the third issue. Everything, I mean EVERYTHING, was done in assembler. There's not a single line in Basic ! With Demoniak 4, Arkos, the 'demos' section, was born. The three of us had learnt assembler and were making quick progress. We became quite respected with this issue :).

Ahh, Demoniak 3. The 'real' beginning. We began to get famous thanks to this one. Even though all is still coded in Basic, it's a very clean discmag, with nice transitions and interesting texts. Demoniak 3 really broke us to the scene, and I have very fond memory of this issue. Rainbird became also a very active member of Demoniak, and the overall quality was thus boosted.

As we felt 360kb was a bit too tight, we decided to use 2 discs for this one. What seemed to be a good idea was in fact a mistake. There's a lot of filling in here, yet there's improvment and it's still very uplifting to watch this discmag after all these years ! This release is working perfectly ! I've manage to find the original 3' discs and cautiously made a copy on 3'5... It's good to know that our issues are all finally available !

This issue is quite basic, but for a first issue, I think it's quite good. Of course we were young so we said a lot of childish and stupid things, but oh well, it's fun to read.