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                        "KITTY CAT" intro by PYJAMA/JFF
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system... ST, STe, 512KB RAM, RGB

size..... 2o KB

code..... Exocet
grafix... Exocet
musix.... Iso of Sentry

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That small intro was released at the  BZH party this year in France  by the only
Atari oriented member of the band JUST FOR FUN, who is firming  under the PYJAMA
label on Atari, EXOCET.

EXOCET is a great  grafician, he did a lot of stylish  stuff as you can check on
his homepage and as you could see on his ST game called "LOMBRIC". So I was very
interested in the things he's bringing us with this small intro...

The intro itself starts with a rose background, surrounded by stars of a similar
colour. In the middle of the screen a white text displayer gives some short info
about the  demo, meanwhile  a kewl XLR8 chipsound is  played in the  background,
that was composed by the good old ISO of SENTRY.

The second screen shows an animated comic cat on the left side, running in your direction. On the right side the text displayer comes up again, giving short credits and on the second part it gives a beer bottle on the right side with the credits on the left... Both things are presented on the same background as in the intro. That's all... meuh! No effect is coming up, just the desktop... Wont to write much more here, just want to go over to the... FINAL WORDS "KITTY CAT" is an intro for modest people, who don't want to see some efx on their screen. Therefore the intro features a cool blipping chip msx and some stuff you surely can call design, mostly well chosen colours and a nice (but unfortunately not originally done) animation... and last but not least nothing more... just a thing to load one or two times and never again... It is a bit disturbing for me to see more and more intros and screens like that. Ok, doing something just for fun is one point, but doing something without any stuff that entertains the people in front of the monitors is more or less senseless... I can't believe that the ST freax are so modest now, to be happy about those releases... I'm surely not... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- originality... o5 % - Animation intros were done 1o years ago too... effex......... o5 % - A text writer... grafix........ 75 % - Not original but still nice... musix......... 8o % - I like XLR8 sounds very much! design........ 45 % - Nice colours but nothing more... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- all in one ... 38 % - Not worth to store for longer times... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .tSCc. moondog --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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