MSX demo : The Warp Demo of PTC

I mentioned the demo earlier on my post about Blue Monday of New Order, so here it is...
The Warp demo is nothing more than a 2 disk demo made in MSX-Basic with Philips Music Module samples.
It was made by First Class Software, PTC Rotterdam, The Poltergeist, White Shadow but in fact it was mostly done by John van Poelgeest.

The samples were recorded and looped by the FM-FAC Soundsampler (which was made, by the way, by FAC)
- There was also a FAF -


Pretty much every sample demo I made, was made with FM-FAC Soundsampler, cause they released a freeware Basic replayer to use samples in your own MSX Basic programs.

The samples used in the Warp demo came from (of course) Blue Monday of New Order and other synthesizer orientated music like Jean Michel Jarre.
When I saw the demo I was impressed about how it uses the MSX mouse to let the user interact with the demo
(mostly scrollers).
Some pictures (maybe all) were stolen from MSX games, very common at that moment in the MSX demoscene...
This Warp demo was made before John start making music with FACs Soundtracker, showing he was more than just
1 of the music composers within the FAC ...

John made at the same time also an impossible fast breakout MSX-2 game with Music Module samples, called Quattro.
I bought it together with The Warp Demo for maybe 15 Dutch guilders at the first
and last visit to a PTC (Philips Thuiscomputer Club) meeting in Rotterdam.

Yes, the PTC was a club for all users with any Philips computer. I remember that visit
very well, cause John himself demonstrated the first version of Soundtracker, which had
a nice GFX intro that was lost in the Soundtracker 1.0 when I bought later.

Wanna run the Warp demo (with a MSX mouse) ?
Mediafire: Disk 1 Disk 2
Gavitex  : Disk 1 Disk 2