Wasted Years
This page was last modified 09:35, 16 May 2020 by Mars2000you. Based on work by Gdx.

Contents

Introduction

Demo published in February 1991 by the Unicorn Corporation. It uses digitized pictures from the official Iron Maiden video for the single Wasted Years, released in 1986 and extracted from the album Somewhere In Time.

The musical content of this demo is mainly based on CompileBGM BASIC.

Content

Intro

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The intro starts with the red Unicorn logo in screen 5 before going to the Iron Maiden screen 8 and adding a menu to choose between manual or automatic mode.

Demo

Automatic mode

In this mode, some effects are applied on the pictures display. Here's a selection of the digitized pictures:

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Manual normal mode

Useful keys:

  • F1 - Frequency change 50Hz / 60Hz
  • F2 - Music on/off
  • F3 - Access to bonus mode
  • F4 - Access to music stage
  • up and down cursors - explore series of 4 pictures
  • spacebar - music off and load next series of 4 pictures

Manual bonus mode

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Useful keys:

  • up and down cursors - explore series of 4 pictures
  • spacebar - music off and load next serie in normal mode

Manual music stage

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Useful keys :

  • 1 to 4 - select music (after beep)
  • spacebar - music off
  • ESC - back to normal mode

End

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You need to press on CTRL+STOP to access the final screen with the credits.

Credits

  • Ernst Schuller
  • Peter van der Laan