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"JAPEMO" by TYPHOON^SUPREMACY
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system... ST, STE, Falcon, 1MB RAM, RGB only, runs from harddisk
released. o2/2oo1 at IRADIUM Party 2
size..... 62o KB on harddisk
code..... STRIDER of TYPHOON^SUPREMACY
grafix... KYST of TYPHOON^SUPREMACY
SENSER of TYPHOON^SUPREMACY
STRIDER of TYPHOON^SUPREMACY
musix.... SCAVENGER of SYNERGY
DMA SC of SECTOR ONE
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As I found that file on the DHS page I wondered a lot... "JAPEMO"? Wasn't it the
demo that was announced many years ago by a french coder called HYLST? Wasn't it
HYLST itself who released a preview of the demo on some party back in 1999 (or
was it in 2ooo, dunno). I really don't know what's that now.
Anyway, the "JAPEMO" that was called to be the biggest Manga demo on ST at all
(it was announced to come on 5 (!) disx), seems to be a very mysterious thingie.
To me it seemed as HYLST stopped the project after he released his preview on
that party because of the destructive critics on it... As I remember his preview
wasn't a hit, lacked a lot of design and originality.
And now the chaps of SUPREMACY, or better the GFA maniacs of TYPHOON are going
to release again a "JAPEMO". But after depacking the file and checking the read-
me-file I found out that it was just SUPREMACY's part of the "JAPEMO", and is
called "THE DRAGONBALL PART". So why are they releasing it now? Is the JAPEMO-
project finally died completely? Argh... enough questions... start the review!
The first screen reminded me a lot to .tnb.'s demo "TINY TOONS", it started with
a Gameboy screen, showing the title of the game "Dragonball". After a high beep
a chip music starts to play, done by SCAVENGER of SYNERGY. The Gameboy fades out
and a greyscaled pixeled piccy, showing a few guys in a room, sitting in front
of their computers, appears, overlayed by a TYPHOON logo.
This one fades out as well and a textdisplayer starts to introduce you into the
demo. It features a quiet ok font but nothing more, but writes over the whole
screen. Btw... this screen show's that this is just a part of the "JAPEMO" demo
that was planned by HYLST of THE MANGA MANIACS some years ago.
After that the screen fades to white, showing a, to be honest, ugly logo saying
"JAPEMO" in red and yellow colours, no antialiasing or something.
It goes on with a little animated picture of the head of the Dragon Ball hero,
who's blinking with an eye. On the left side there is a red logo displayed...
Also those parts aren't antialiased... meuh!
At next the "main part" is coming up, showing at first a landscape with the hero
of the Manga series who's collecting his powers to shot a power stream into the
right direction. This is a very simple animation with not much ani-moves...
At next a scanned picture of Bill Gates' head appears on the screen, with his
name and a sarcastic latinum description of his zoological species. Short after
this, the powerstream of our hero appears on the screen, hit' the head and a
very bad animated explosion comes up...
This stuff fades out and a simple try to do a pixeled logo by SENSER appears on
the left side of the screen, saying TYPHOON, while some yellow line circles are
flying around on the right side of the screen. At the same moment the music is
changing to a sid music by DMA SC.
The TYPHOON logo scrolls out and the final part comes up, showing another DRAGON
BALL logo on the lower part of the screen, again very simple and not a bit
antialiased or something. On the upper part the same textdisplayer as in the
intro comes up again, giving credits, greetings and some info again.
Before the demo reaches his end, they are giving us a preview of their next demo
and after short time of a black screen two fucking scenes, showing japanese
school girls in Manga style, appearing on the screen. This part comes along with
some technoing tracker music and the animations are timed to the beat of the
music, boah! Tit-jumping!
After short time the demo wents back to GEM, so there wasn't much time to wank
or something :)
Final words... As this demo was planned to be a part of another demo it has a
hard stand as stand-alone-demo. Furthermore I'm not a big fan of that Manga-
stuff and I don't like the style of bringing that comic to the ST, without a try
to redraw parts of the pictures or to use some antialiasing technices. Surely it
is a question of taste, but the frenchies seem to like it. At next the anti-Bill
jokes are just boring with the time. I didn't laughed, esp. because the realise
of this idea wasn't the best. Without any doubt the best thing on that demo are
the musix, again. Just a demo for collectors in my eyes.
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originality... 15 % - Not much to say, maybe the gameboy idea...
effex......... 1o % - Only fading routines and a few line circles
grafix........ 6o % - surely a lot work with the ani's, but not very original
musix......... 75 % - two nice sid musix, the best on this demo...
design........ 2o % - a few transitions and fading routines, but not much
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all in one.... 36 % - again not even mediocre...
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I wonder how long the SUPREMACY gang will torment us again with such releases
and I still hope to see something real in the future...
.tSCc. moondog
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