Brutal Recall 09 ch17
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"DEMO REVIEWS"
part 4
by tch/brutal.
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yep,yep,yep! here is the last chapter
with demo reviews for this issue!
after writing part 3, i thought i had
most of them,but after that i recieved
some hot demos and so i'm here to
bring you the reviews of...
TOTAL ECLIPSE by THE DEPREDATORS
SMOKE RINGS by VISION
STUPIDITY by WRATH DESIGNS
DO YOU REMEMBER by OFFENCE
okay,i will start with...
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TOTAL ECLIPSE
(HIP HOP 5)
DEPREDATORS
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this demo contains some parts which were
made for 'hip hop 5' which was never
released,and still are worth showing.
here follow the reviews for each part.
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intro:before starting there's an info
screen which gives some facts for
the demo... the tune here is old
but cool. always press c= to go to
the next part!
a cool music starts to play,an
upscroller with a cool 2x1 charset
starts moving up,with breaks now
and then,giving you credits,greets
and memberstatus...
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part1:nice tune with a scroll in a cool
charset. on top of the screen
moves a box with in it pieces of
a cool hires logo...
this is called hires-square-line-
crunching and looks rather cool,
except for the sinus in which the
box moves...
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part2:a fucking cool,satiric,picture of
SYLVESTER STALONE is shown with a
really kicking tune!!
on top of the screen appears a,too
slow x-ax turning,1x1 scroller...
after some time hiresoverlay-plots
(in sprites?) move over the piccy
in cool circle sinus.
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part3:a tv is shown with underneath it
8 tables for controlling the cool
plotter yet to come...
down on the screen is a small 1x1
scroll with the usual bla!
on the tv-screen is bouncing an
animated world-sprite...
the routine is said to use dot-
splits,so it is possible to have
hires SINGLE color plots on a
MULTI color hires picture...
it's also said there're no sprites
used except for the world-sprite,
but if you turn all sprites OFF,
the tv-sides are gonne! hmm...
cool tune though and it also looks
nice!! (with sprites ON,that is!)
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part4:a great tune starts the show,a
little scroller enters the screen.
now a big box is moving over the
screen with in it an,ALSO moving,
hires picture. again no sprites
are used,but why goes the box
white if you put #$01 at $d026?
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part5:256 realtimehires plots!
under this a 1x1 scroll and totaly
down a cool 'total eclipse' logo
built out of a focus charset.
this music simply rules!!
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part6:a 2-screen wide swinging hires
logo/picture is filling the entire
screen...
over this moves a 2x1 scroller...
the music is really nice and fits
great to the part...
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part7:a cool tune plays with a not so
nice logo down on the screen!
a spritescroll bounces onto the
screen. now 92 dots showing DDT 92
move in pre-calculated sinusses.
this part is the last one...
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as you could have read in some parts,
there were sprites used when it was
said there weren't used any...
i think people have the right to know
how it's really done,just like the
'singlecolour scroll over multicolour
hires picture' by CREST,which was said
to use no sprites,but used sprites
for sure!!
anyway,i don't think it matters how
good it's coded,but how cool it looks,
that's what counts...
for instance:make rasterbars in $d020
by using sideborder-sprites is nice
coding,but really stupid!!
okay,i will now write the final
ratings for this demo...
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TOTAL ECLIPSE by DEPREDATORS
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CODING
performed by
COUNT/DEPREDATORS
is rated
7.5 out 10
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GRAPHICS
painted by
MEGABYTE/CREST (ex-ddt)
is rated
8.5 out 10
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MUSICS
composed by
PANORAMA INC,JCH,DRAX,V.VOOLS,BAPALANDER
and GRIFF
is rated
8.5 out 10
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DESIGN
by
THE DEPREDATORS
is rated
8.5 out 10
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the OVERALL is rated
8.3 out 10
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SMOKE RINGS
by
VISION
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this is yet the second demo in a short
time period...
it contains 5 parts which look like...
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intro:a music starts playing...
some text flashes on some moving
stars...
a title-picture is shown and more
text comes...
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part1:a great picture with over it a
'vsn' sprite logo and "smokerings"
sprite under it moving in some
weird ways with rastercolours
behind in the sprites...
in the downborder is an unexpanded
scroller with 4 colours in it!
you can control the scroll with
a joystick in port 2!
if you press fire,the computer'll
count 'colourwaves'.
this looks really cool,though some
might look a bit hacky!
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part2:a spritescroller with an original,
but great,charset starts the show.
then 128 3x2 bobs enter the screen
in a turbo sinus. (i wonder why it
are boxes? don't have to ORA eh!?)
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part3:a cool 'vision' logo is on the
screen with a mega dypp scroller
on top of the screen. over this
goes a 16 spritemultiplexer.
the scroll will also contain some
colours for each word...
there's a little bug,left between
the logo and the dypp.
the tune is nice...
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part4:very nice 'Uision' logo on top
with 2 rasterlines underneath...
between these lines appears a
sideborder snurkel-scroller with
animated star-sprites behind it.
there's a little bug in the right
sideborder...
in the upperborder also move some
star dots from left to right.
again a nice tune...
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part5:the end part...
this only contains a big ball dycp
scroller with some text...
the music fits the part perfectly.
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SMOKE RINGS by VISION
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CODING
performed by
ICON and HOUBBA
is rated
8 out 10
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GRAPHICS
painted by
ICON,HOUBBA and SKYWIZE
is rated
7.5 out 10
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MUSICS
composed by
PAGE,NORDIC BEAT and KRISTIAN ROESTOEN
is rated
7 out 10
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DESIGN
by
VISION
is rated
7.5 out 10
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the OVERALL is rated
7.5 out 10
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DO YOU REMEMBER
by
OFFENCE
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this demo contains only 1 part and is
ment to be an introduction to the demo
offence was going to release on the
third of februari.
well,i haven't seen this demo yet,but
here i am to give you a review of this
small announcement-demo as it is
surtenly worth to be reviewed!!
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it first gives some credits...
now a great (digi) music is playing
and on the screen is a big OFFENCE
logo with on top of it a 'remember'
logo and a moving 'do you' logo.
over the offence logo will come some
small logos of SHAPE,BEYOND FORCE,
BONZAI which were never used (?)...
after you've seen all logos there will
come a great 'offence'logo,which looks
as it is fli but it's hires!,with a
great singlecolour logo under it.
the music gets spooky,but after that
it get's normal again...
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DO YOU REMEMBER by OFFENCE
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CODING
performed by
YUP
is rated
3.5 out 10
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GRAPHICS
painted by
PAL (ROOSTER)
is rated
9.5 out 10
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MUSIC
composed by
GEIR TJELTA
is rated
9.5 out 10
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DESIGN
by
OFFENCE
is rated
9.5 out 10
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the OVERALL is rated
8 out 10
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this demo was just made to show you the
.graphix and let you enjoy the music.
i'm really looking forward to see the
real demo!
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STUPIDITY
by
WRATH DESIGNS
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intro:a wrath logo appears onto the
screen with under it a 2x2 scroll
and in the downborder "wrath"...
later "designs" in sprites move
over the screen and in sideborder.
the music is nice...
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part1:60 balls dycp also with "wrath
designs" dy4pping (the cursors are
divided into two and dycp).
this all is swinging...
under this are 2 rasterlines with
a 1x1 scroll between them.
totaly down is a hires "wrath"
logo with "designs" sprites on it.
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part2:a big hires picture of a barbarian
is on the screen with on top of it
a 32 sprites multiplexer.
in the downborder is a moving 1x1
scroller.
the strange music suits the part!
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part3:a very nice "beach"-picture fills
most of the screen. (why is there
this $d016 changing? it sux!)
over this is a sprite scroller.
on top of the screen is a dycping
flag with a dypping colourchanger.
the music is nice again...
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STUPIDITY by WRATH DESIGNS
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CODING
performed by
OXIDY and ED
is rated
5.5 out 10
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GRAPHICS
painted by
OXIDY,BLACKDROID,ZINIA and JOE/ANTIC
is rated
7.5 out 10
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MUSICS
composed by
AVALON
is rated
6.5 out 10
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DESIGN
by
WRATH DESIGNS
is rated
6.5 out 10
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the OVERALL is rated
6.5 out 10
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and that was really all for this issue.
i hope you enjoyed reading them all
and if you want your demo reviewed
then send it to me,TCH,and i'll make
sure it will be reviewed....
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