The Lords (demogroup)

Screenshot from Tetris for the SAM Coupé Screenshot from Bats 'n Balls for the SAM Coupé

The Lords was a Dutch ZX Spectrum group from Roosendaal known as one of the earliest dedicated demogroups.[1] The Lords released several demos for the ZX Spectrum home computer between the years 1986 and 1990.[2] Groups such as The Lords are regarded as early pioneers of what came to be known as the demoscene. They were especially noted for their sound-chip skills.[3]

In some respects they mirrored The Judges, a "rivaling" Commodore 64 group also from Roosendaal, to the extent that concepts, artwork and even titles were identical between the two groups.

Their demo Quinquagesima was given a review of 78% in the September 1992 issue of Your Sinclair[3] \- three years after it was released in 1989. Some of their productions was put as covermounts, for instance The Apple Movie on Outlet issue 107[4] and Quinquagesima on Outlet issue 070.[5]

In later years, they released some of their demos for the SAM Coupé and two games: a freeware version of Tetris in 1990[6] (also published as a covermount on Fred issue 3) and an Arkanoid clone named Batz 'n Balls[7] in 1992, both to very good reviews.[8][9]

In 1994 two of the members, Lord Insanity and Scrunk, did a series of articles about demos for the paper-based magazine ZAT.[1]

## Members

* Lord Insanity (David Gommeren)
* Scrunk (Rob Mies)
* Thing (Michiel Koolen)
* Zoinks (Eric Damstra)

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Advanced ZAT Programming, issue 25, 1994: Demo&Co
2. ↑ WoS: The Lords
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Quinquagesima (PD)
4. ↑ WoS: The Apple Movie
5. ↑ WoS: Quinquagesima
6. ↑ World of SAM: Tetris
7. ↑ World of SAM: Batz 'n Balls
8. ↑ Your Sinclair: Batz 'n' Balls
9. ↑ Crash!

## External links

* The Lords at World of Spectrum
* The Lords at Demotopia
* The Lords at World of SAM

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