The Link 08 Reviews

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   this month i, guru, will be reviewing
rastan's latest demo's ie. LEANNE and
his DIGITRACKS.

   remember dudes, this review is based
on my own personal opinions



LEANNE
££££££

    the first of the three files takes
 ages to load, being about 200 blocks
long. i can't figure out why it is so
big as the code is obsolete, and the
music doesn't sound at all like it is
digitised. i must admit though the song
is a good pick

    the entire screen flickers as the
logo changes from LEANNE to RASTAN and
the technique used to decorate the
scroll's colouring looks like a glitch
in the programme.

    the music, though, is very good but
definately shouldnt take up so much room


    the second part is about 5 seconds
of a song that has been digitised. it
is very clear but that is due to the
fact that it only goes for 5 seconds,
the singing is higher pitched than
average. overall, this part was a yawn


    last and least is a small part where
rastan has compiled about 6 digitised
pictures of himself (about 130 x 90
pixels) scrolling slowly across the top
of the screen, with a 1x1 scroll down
the bottom.

    suprisingly, however, even though
the demo is relatively basic and simple,
when the music progresses, about once
every 5 seconds the screen flickers 'coz
it can handle the strain of the music
taking up more raster time.


    overall, LEANNE is a basic demo with
big timing and layout problems.



DIGITRACKS
££££££££££

     another three part demo by rastan
that features a very very long digitised
song.

     at the beginning there is an
incredibly LAME intro, after which, the
song starts.

     a good point about this demo is
that aven though it is a very long song,
the computer doesn't have to stop to
load the next part as it uses and IRQ
LOADER (this lets the computer load file
s while still running a programme).

     the song is actually made up of 3
files which are loaded throughout the
playing. part of the reason that rastan
was able to produce such a long
recording was that the playback's
quality was below average and parts of
the song repeated themselves throughout
the song.

     the actual 'music' was very poor in
my opinion. it didn't sound much better
than synchronised static with a few
'hoys' and 'yows' in it. towards the end
though, the sounds turned into
recognisable music, but just as i
started to wake up and realise that i
could understand the static, the end was
thrust upon my via an sys 64738 command,
ending the demo,
                and thus ending another
                captivating epsode of -

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