Persistence Of Vision

POV Menu Disk #099

Persistence Of Vision (aka POV) was one of the best demo-packer groups for the Atari ST. They made 165 compilation disks, most programmed by Mac Sys Data, with fellow members including Ozymandias, Boris, Gonzo, Aly, and Dr Syne. Numerous disks featured music by Tao, Lotus, An Cool, David Whittaker, Ben Daglish, and many more.

I admire POV because they brought multiple demos, intros, etc to users like me. People who couldn't afford to buy (or ... ahem... freely source) everything flooding the ST world in the 80s and 90s. Plus their compilations were professionally produced and crammed with loads of goodies I would probably never have seen otherwise.

I've chosen to record their 99th menu because it's a great screen and marked the end of an era. Not the end of the group, which continued for years. Along with their copier, the floppy disk features four demos: Life's A Bitch by TLB, The New Year Demo by X-Troll, Stuffy's Demo, and TSB/Adrenaline Intro by Kids Ghost Brothers. Amazing compression!

Okay, this disk isn't the greatest measure of what made the POV menus so appealing - there are far better - but I am sure that the infamous sampled soundtrack from Life's A Bitch more than makes up for the rest. So funny :)

Credits for Menu #099

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Boris - Code & Graphics
Ozymandias - Graphics

Count Zero - Music

 

Links and a bundle of other POV Menu screenshots

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Persistence Of Vision are on YouTube!
Exxos has a great POV section on his website.

Demozoo has a section dedicated to POV.

If you think this is all, boy, you're so wrong! (geddit??) [AtariCrypt]