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8BIT DEMO RELEASES from the FOREVER 2E3 SE PARTY 2oo1
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Yeuops... Today I reanimated my AtariWin8oo Emulation to dig out some quite nice
mini intro releases, done for FOREVER 2e3 SE party. More or less good was the
fact that all intro's as well as the grafix and so on came along in one .ATR
file and later offers a menu on the screen where you can select the single demos
and screens. Good at the point that you have all releases in one file, not so
good because of the fact that I checked it very often that some .ATR files wont
run correctly and locked the machine up... So if all stuff would be available as
single files it would surely possible to find out some running as well. Maybe
they run on a real Atari 8bit machine, but emulation users have to stay outside
then... but this is my problem since the demos originally weren't made for the
emulator users... :/ And after all we as ST & Falcon users would say the same
if someone would complain about a not running demo on his emulator... What?
"Use a real ST instead, hehe!" :)
Enough bullshit here. At last it's time to check up the things that were finally
released on the Forever 2e3 Party, held somewhere in the Carpates :)
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"MOTOR" 1K intro by RASTER
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Raster is said to be one of the best czech 8bit coders and you shouldn't mix up
him with some polish ex-Atarian, called Raster, who was a member of Confusions.
He did a very interesting intro, that shows, like the title says, 4 cylindres of
a machine, connected with a... damn, what is this in english?!... welle... args
fuck... Anyway... those cylindres are animated very well and drawn in different
colours. Below them in white letters some short information about the screen
comes up while on the right side a green vertical raster scroller is saying
Atari and showing the Fuji logo. The whole screen comes along with a noise music
that sounds like a working steam engine.
Quite nice!
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"DRUNK SPRITES" 1k intro by FOX of TAQUART
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This intro is quite simple, it shows 3 pseudo 3d vectors (they aren't masked
right, hehe), turning around on the screen. Only the front of them is colloured
while the "deep view" of them is hold in black completely, on the brown screen.
In front of them is the title swinging from left to right and a few more infos
are represented... Not a real killer intro but since it tries to look a bit
stylish and not too oldskoolish it surely has found its lovers.
One of the biggest drawbacks is the fact that it doesn't features any music or
noises. So it is quite boring after a few seconds of watching it...
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"ANTS" realtime intro by RASTER
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This intro is quite different and seems to be hacked together on the party. At
first it shows an "ANTS" logo in white big letters on a black screen accompanied
with a short info. The whole thing fades out and is showing up another screen,
"day 1... 1ooo lucky working ants..." So what?!
Then screen turns green showing up a lot of plots wobbling on the screen, along
with a simple chip music... Ahh... there are those ants! Nice, what will the
maker show us?
The screen turns black again, showing up "day 2... 1ooo lucky working ants..."
and the same starts again... Hu? The thing turns out to be a fake intro? But I'm
sitting still there, not pressing reset...
And so I saw day 3 as well... but... suddenly some footsteps appearing on the
screen... and where they stap in, nothing is wobbling anymore...The tiny little
ants plots are just... dead and so the next screen is called "day 4 - 8oo lucky
working ants" and shows big grave yards on the places were the lucky working
ants died... the end.
I wouldn't call this demo revolutionary, nope, it also doesn't features any
style or something, but after all it contains a funny idea and after all you're
sitting there and watching the whole demo since you're wanting to know what will
happen in here.
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"ZZZOMROTATOR" 1k intro by -XI- of SATANTRONIC
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As the title says, this intro brings us, as ST/Falcon owners, a wellknown effect
and I have to admit that this screen impressed me most of all those small demos.
It shows a zoom rotator using a bitmap texture that is build up of 3d bobs.
Those are rotating at first and zooming in and out, later on the screen changes
the colours and the whole thing starts to be stretched and disted all over.
Here I have a few screenshots for you...
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