Hotshot 16 ch06 The Reviews
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THE REVIEWS
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m a g r e v i e w s
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first of all i just want to say some-
thing. ehh, we will from now on do
reviews on all magazines that arrives
in our mail-boxes. we will also tell
you what we really think, lame or not!
don't agree,but don't make a hard time
for us just because we don't have the
same opinion. but i think most of you
think the same as we do.
if we give points on the loadertime,
you'll find a little comment in either
"complainments" or "jewels".
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THUNDER / VICTORY
THUNDER / VICTORY
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first up is a quite cool intro with a
digitized picture(stolen?) on a guy
reading the news. under that you will
find a normal 1x1 scroller. a small
bug was descovered. (*)
after space you will enter the main-
menu. there, at the top you'll find a
thunder logo. under that you can find
some 8 tv's (a find of icons), showing
the things you can choose between.
when choosing a chapter it starts to
interrupt load.entering the textscreen
you'll find some simple rasters cover-
ing the whole text area. they also got
these normal flashes .
the text: is kinda strange to me. you
flip through the pages in no-time. the
only good thing i found was the inter-
view. addresses, lamer and preview is
just a few examples how lame it can
be. (**)
the outfit: is ugly! bad graphics and
design.the text screen is ok but again
too simple and no kinda graphics. (*)
complainments: well, i'm sad to say
that this mag is worthless. there is
so many other good mag that makes this
mag a disaster. i actually read it for
5 times. found anything interesting?
no!!
jewels: well, the loader was ok.
OVERALL: 1.3
OVERALL: 1.3
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GARFIELD NEWS / ACCURACY
GARFIELD NEWS / ACCURACY
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first up you can find a normal intro.
the intro itself is not good. there is
no cool graphics and design. i think
these kinda logos was popular back in
1987 or something. the coding is not
good either, but i don't think that's
nessesary for an intro. (**)
you simply press space to enter the
magazine. there you can find much of
graphics(but bad) all over the screen.
you simply choose a chapter and press
the button. the coder of the mag used
a interrupt loader with a nice plot-
vector effect. nice!!, i must say.
after a while, you'll enter the text
screen. the amout of graphics is ok
(but still bad). on the top there's a
picture of garfield. it's from a gfx-
print program, and they did not credit
the guy who made it! they stole it and
tried make us believe they made!! one
thing that really disturbed me was all
those ugly flashings. as said before,
ever heard of design?
the text: is kinda different. what i
liked was the interview and the charts
was ok too. but what really made me
puke was the stupid sex-story , lamers
guide and who gives a fuck about what
happends in the "real" music business.
buy a music paper magazine instead!!
the rest is ok (is there any?). (**)
the outfit: is not of my taste. maybe
i compare too much with shock etc. but
you must draw a line somewhere, right?
(**)
complainments: i think there have been
too much issues released, let over the
job to the professionals! i think that
accuraacy should spend more time on
their promissing demos!
jewels: argh!the interrupt load effect
was cool!!
OVERALL: 2.0
OVERALL: 2.0
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d e m o r e v i e w s
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from this issue, we've decided to
remove the "whole demo" and "overall"
grades from our demo reviews,'cause
we felt that this kind of mathematical
average values of all the parts don't
say very much about the reviewed demo.
read the text and the points given to
each part and try to judge the demo's
overall qualities yourself instead.
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"WE CAN DO ON OUR OWN" BY VISION
"WE CAN DO ON OUR OWN" BY VISION
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part 1:
this part includes some reversed space
chars with $d800-colours moving on 'em
in some sinus waves + a multiplexer
scroll.
code by icon ***
graphics by icon ***
music by drax of vibrants ***
design **
part 2:
in this part, you can change between
listening to a normal tune or 1-bit
sampled music played through your
computer from your computer tape
recorder. the part also features the
tutan-khamon picture (used once in a
while by horizon...) moving in the x
direction out into the sideborders,
some spritescrollers which changes
their x positions each rasterline, and
an expanded vision spritelogo that is
scrolling.
code by houbba ***
gfx by sai + houbba + ??? ***
music by rob hubbard ****
design ***
part 3:
this part features a rather big plasma
(techteching fli "splits") routine,
without eci colours. this routine up-
dates each frame so it looks much more
smooth than glasnost's two plasma
routines.
code by icon ****
graphics by icon ***
music by moon of flash (not reviewed)
design ***
part 4:
this part features a 1x1 mega dypp-
scroller with word-flashing.
code by houbba ****
graphics by houbba **
music by moon of flash (not reviewed)
design **
part 5:
this part includes two sprite up-
scrollers, and a rather big dycp.
code by icon ***
graphics by icon ***
music by drax of vibrants ***
design ***
part 6:
this part features a fli-area with
sprites in the sideborders (with only
each second line painted) with raster
colours in the sprites + three more
sprites moving around in a dysp with
the same raster colours.
after a while, the fli splits in the
fli area starts to move! these moves
can be controlled with a joystick.
code by houbba *****
graphics by icon+houbba ***
music by rage of megastyle ****
design ****
part 7:
this part includes a hires logo + some
dxycp chars presenting some text.
code by gryzor ***
graphics by icon ****
music by jch of vibrants ***
design **
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"FREESTYLE" FROM CLIQUE
"FREESTYLE" FROM CLIQUE
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loader:
code by walking stress+master ***
graphics by mad+prince+remix **
music by babyface ***
design ***
intro (after one accolade-introduction
and one tv-introduction):
it features some bended "vertical
rasters" inside a logo+some equalizers
+other small graphical effects.
code by walking stress ***
graphics by w.stress+remix+??? ***
music by guy shavitt of sidc.s. ****
design ****
part 1:
this part features a plot scroll with
over 300 plots in one frame. the plots
move around in some real crewl moves,
included some that are changing the
pixel positions of the "track" while
it's scrolling.
code by prof. fate ****
graphics by flint+babyface **
music by drax of vibrants ****
design **
part 2:
this part features 2 unsmooth moving
dycpscrollers + a graphics equalizer
with some x-rated animations featuring
a bottle.
code by exotic **
graphics by andre/house des+??? **
music by ??? (old!!) ***
design **
part 3:
this part features a realtime calcu-
lated line vector graphics routine
with hidden surfaces.the fact that the
vector calculations are made in real-
time means that you're able to change
the x and y and z rotation increase
while watching which is cool, but it
also makes the part update much slower
than a vector routine with precalc'ed
data. anyway, some of the objects in
this part are really designed in a
cool and original way (for example:
"the punk" and the impossible object.)
and some of the 32 objects are
transforming while you're watching 'em
code by master ****
gfx by prince (objects by mad) ***
music by jch of vibrants ****
design **
endpart:
code by master ***
graphics by flint+prince **
music from the game beastiality ***
design ***
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"VIOLATOR 2" FROM GENESIS*PROJECT
"VIOLATOR 2" FROM GENESIS*PROJECT
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the diskturbo bugs sometimes on a
1541-ii drive.
intro:
it features a textplotarea with pro-
portional chars (53 on a row).
code by scrap ***
graphics by scrap ***
music by deek ****
design ***
part 1:
this part contains a real crewl piccie
by bizzmo, and a small area that's
fading up/down two logos over each
other at the same time.
code by scrap ***
graphics by bizzmo *****
music by deek ****
design ***
part 2:
this part features a routine that show
73 dxycp-chars moving around, not up-
dating each frame.
code by scrap **
graphics by scrap **
music by hje ****
design **
part 3:
this part features a dxycp-scroll with
200 faked bobs (they can't be placed
at any x-position, they must move 8
x-pixels (one char) each time).
code by scrap ***
graphics by scrap ***
music by hje ****
design ***
part 4:
this part features 101 dxycp balls.
you can change the x-add,y-add,x-speed
and y-speed values with a joystick.
code by scrap ***
graphics by scrap ***
music by reyn ouwehand (a long
time ago when he was in trc!) ***
design **
part 5:
this part contains a hardware upscroll
that's able to continously scroll up
(it never changes its direction) 7
pictures,by storing them in a crunched
way in the memory - and decrunching
rows when needed. you can freeze it
with the commodore key.
code by fgth ****
graphics by bizzmo and taken from
"defender of the crown" ****
music by deek ****
design ***
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