Hotshot 18 ch06 Demo Reviews

              DEMO REVIEWS






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 our specially trained team of demo-
 analysists are back with their inter-
 pretations of the productions that was
 spread to the general public at the
 light-phenomena party..


     "ELYSION" FROM ORIGO DREAMLINE
     "ELYSION" FROM ORIGO DREAMLINE
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     pos. at the democompetition: 1


 this demo is linked in a similar way
 to all those "trackloader" demos on
 the amiga (each part is shown for a
 short period of time, and meanwhile
 the next part is loaded from the disc)
 and the parts are stored directly on
 a certain track+sector on the disc,
 instead of being saved as normal
 files.. a really cool way of linking!!

 the demo contains:
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 * star sky in multicolor, with text
   in front of it
 * colourfield calculator
 * multicolor 3d starball with 208
   plots
 * simple colorplotting thing
 * fast filled vector with loadsa
   objects
 * random sierpinsky calculator
 * fast fli-fractal calculator

 grades and comments:
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 code by bx+mixer+clf of origo .... 9.0

 gfx by gordon+crony of origo,??? of
        bonzai,commodore .......... 6.0

 the demo doesn't feature much graphics
 (just fonts and logos), but the gfx
 that there is looks neat.

 music by zardax of origo ......... 8.0

 the demo features two different tunes.
 the first tune is played through all
 the parts except the last, and the
 second tune is played in the last part
 and both those tunes are really cool.

 design ........................... 8.0

 this is one of the things the members
 of origo are really good at, i think.
 even if the demo doesn't feature much
 graphics, it gives you a really color-
 ful(!) and good-looking impression
 while watching it.

 ideas ............................ 7.0

 mostly very improved versions of old
 ideas (like the fli-fractal calc.),
 but still really impressive.

 OVERALL .......................... 7.6
 OVERALL .......................... 7.6

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         "LUNACY 5" FROM ANTIC
         "LUNACY 5" FROM ANTIC
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     pos.at the democompetiton: 3


 the demo contains:
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 * intro: first some introducing stuff,
   and then lots of small vector ani-
   mations on the text screen and in
   the up- and downborder + a dycp
 * very big filled vector
 * two techtechplotpipes
 * rubber vector cube
 * "colorful floffy"
 * raytracing with 4 objects, updating
   every frame
   (it doesn't support all the features
   of the normal, animated raytracing
   with all these shadows and so on..
   look at the raytracing animations by
   tron/flt, and compare...but this is
   cool anyway.)
 * plasma vector
 * animated vectorscroll (every char
   has got its own sprite, and rotates
   in different ways)
 * credits part

 grades and comments:
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 code by depeh+jordan+probe of antic...
 .................................. 7.5

 gfx by joe+star+depeh of antic ... 6.5

 just like the origo demo, this one is
 mainly based on showing you the code -
 so there's mostly logos and fonts in
 this one too (with different quality
 in different parts). there are two
 bigger pictures by joe, though. the
 girl picture in the raytracing part is
 cool!

 music by zyron+probe of antic .... 6.5

 zyron made all the tunes in this demo
 except for one. some nice and pleasant
 compositions to listen to, even if he
 is obviously inspired a lot by some
 other composers (moon, for example).
 we have to say that we didn't like the
 one tune composed by probe at all,
 though.

 design ........................... 7.5

 really good design in this one too,
 with lots of effects in the different
 parts and some colorful fli stuff and
 so on.

 ideas ............................ 7.5

 the most creative stuff was:
 the intro, the rubber vector cube and
 the plasma vector - which all showed
 some stuff not seen on this machine
 before.

 OVERALL .......................... 7.1
 OVERALL .......................... 7.1

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      "LEGOLAND 2" FROM FAIRLIGHT
      "LEGOLAND 2" FROM FAIRLIGHT
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 pos.at the democompetition: don't know
                           (was it #4?)


 the demo contains:
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 * stylish intro
 * cool raytracing animation
 * two vector scrollers that's rotating
   in the x axis round their middle,
   with some ugly color moves inside
   the chars
 * star sky in multicolor, with a small
   raytraced spaceship.. all of it is
   joystick controlled
 * weird, unserious part
 * rubber vector bobs
 * realtime multicolor ballwrapper
 * cute lego-game with lots of raster
   bugs
 * gfx-part 1: a hardware scroll that
   copies a three colored scroll to one
   side of the picture
 * gfx-part 2: a scroll "copied into"
   the picture
 * another cool raytracing animation

 grades and comments:
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 code by tron+rowdy+watchman of fair-
         light .................... 8.5

 gfx by the sarge+ogami+rowdy+tron of
        fairlight, crept+creeper of
        flash, commodore, ??? ..... 7.0

 the two new pictures by the sarge in
 the graphics parts are simply really
 outstanding. the rest of the demo,
 except the intro, is obviously made to
 show the coding skills, and doesn't
 feature much graphics at all (only
 logos and fonts...).

 music by kristian r0st0en of shape,
          avalon of wrath, reyn ouwe-
          hand, ??? ............... 7.0

 some nice pieces of music. i don't
 think all of the tunes from shape and
 the one tune from wrath was released
 before, but the other tunes are for
 sure ripped.

 design ........................... 5.0

 the gfx-parts and the big raytracing
 animations look great, but some of the
 other parts are sort of undesigned
 (like the rubber vector bobs part,
 which only features those bobs + a
 1x1 scroll with the built-in commodore
 font + a three color logo). the multi-
 color ballwrapper in realtime was
 probably really hard to code, but in
 our opinion, zodiac's animated single
 color ballwrapped looked much much
 better, as tron's routine updates too
 slow to give a good impression while
 watching.

 ideas ............................ 7.0

 OVERALL .......................... 6.9
 OVERALL .......................... 6.9

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     "PARTYTRAP" FROM BEYOND FORCE
     "PARTYTRAP" FROM BEYOND FORCE
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     pos.at the democompetition: 2


 the demo contains:
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 * intro: single color star sky, with
   text in front
 * two x-stretching logos, and a dycp
 * updated version of the old star-
   plotter from their 1989 demo
   "phantasie". this time the middle
   point for the plots moves around the
   screen, but the whole thing still
   updates too slow
 * a big dycp
 * 896 dots plotscroll, with lots of
   cool moves
 * transforming three color animations
   in 8 hires squares
 * 3d multicolor starball with 370
   plots

 grades and comments:
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 code by gremlin+sam+tnt of beyond
         force .................... 6.5

 some of you obviously disagree with
 this grade, as it got a second place
 in the democompetition at the party.
 in our opinion, the 2 last parts
 was great, some other parts was ok,
 but some parts (like sam's big dycp-
 part) was very uninteresting and old
 fashioned.

 gfx by max of beyond force, ??? of
        blackmail, ???, ??? of atg, jh
        (ex-deathsector), redstar of
        logic, ??? of mda, ??? of para-
        dize, scooby of light + gfx
        taken from the games "tetris"
        and "hammerfist" .......... 5.0

 eeh.. the only piece of graphics in
 this demo that's painted by a beyond
 force-member is a small logo by max in
 the last part! that fact alone tells
 you that they haven't changed their
 style at all since their previous
 demos. some of the graphics in the
 transformation part looks cool, but
 the rest is just old and boring.

 music by page of hoaxers, mixer+zardax
          of origo, ??? of moz(ic)art,
          harmony prod. of presence,
          ??? ..................... 7.5

 they've ripped some really nice tunes
 for this demo, but some of the music
 has been used in too many demos before
 this one (like the cool tune by page,
 for example).

 design ........................... 5.0

 well, the transforming part actually
 looks rather cool - but the rest of
 the demo is undesigned, as nearly all
 of beyond force's previous work.

 ideas ............................ 4.0

 as we wrote before, the only parts
 that we really liked was the two last
 ones (transformer and 3d starball),
 and neither of them features any kind
 of new ideas - just better coded ver-
 sions of the old ideas.

 OVERALL .......................... 5.6
 OVERALL .......................... 5.6

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