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"DON'T BREAK THE OATH" by DEAD HACKERS SOCIETY
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system... Falcon, 14 MB RAM, FPU, RGB, VGA, Accelerator card recomended!
size..... 5365 KB on harddisk
credits.. code - gizmo of dhs
evil of dhs
grfx - evil of dhs
exocet of pyjama
lance of aggression
musx - candyman of cream
release.. ERROR IN LINE 2K1 - ranked 2nd in the Falcon demo competition
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Yes, here we come to the second rocking demo from the ERROR IN LINE party and
while the first one rocked on a plain Falcon, this one burns down any hardware
you can get hold of, the more the better. But not that it wouldn't run in a
perfect way without those hardware extensions, nope, without them you can right
delete the files again... So go away if you don't have enough memory and at
least a FPU in your Falcy. The kings are ofcourse the ones who have a real fast
accelerator card working in their Falcon, and I mean real fast because the demo
gives a shit about simple 32 MHz speeders and CPU doublers...
Anyway after a long break with big productions also the force from the North
striked back, with a very special named demo, yeps... the title has big sense,
because it plays with all the discussions that happened over the past months and
years, about the problem of using the FPU, about the problem to code for fast
accelerated Falcons, about the problem to use MP2/3 music, about the problem to
use no standard machines at all anymore and so on, and I believe this demo was
thought to show that the DEAD HACKERS just give a shit about all that stuff :)
Ok, since I have at least the parts of the hardware to start the demo, I will go
over to the review now...
The demo starts with the known menu where you can chose the display including
the screen frequencies and the detail modes and since I checked the demo out not
for the first time, I took the low detail mode, grin...
The screen turns black and a after a while some music starts to play, while a
white bar appears on the screen, splitting and scrolling up and down a bit, to
make place for a real cool idea... you see a lot of little porn pics, some with
red and some with blue background, scrolling around and zooming back and with
the time you can imagine what is built of them and suddenly, with a hard noise
from the music, that goes over into some technoing track, a white bar goes from
left to right, changing the pornpix into a pixeled DHS logo by EXOCET, real nice
idea! The logo is very good and features Exocets very own dither techniques...
After the whole thing is fades out, a texture fills up the background and an
vector atari logo, surrounded by 5 vector cones, is moving around on the screen.
The whole stuff isn't only env. mapped, no, while the music starts to pump more
and more, on the sides of those cones, directed to the Atari logo, lightsources
starting to glow, enlighting the whole scenery more and more... really cool!
This goes on for a while untill all 5 cones are enlighted.
The next part features a lot of flares on the screen, moving around in many ways
and several slogans coming up on the screen, like "fpu is cheating", "oldskool
rules", "stniccc boycott" and "mp2 ruins the scene"... yes, with the title of
the demo the DHS guys offering their views onto all the discussions and in some
way they surely laugh about it, because they have broken the oath, grin... but,
to say it right now, it was cool that they did so...
Ok, the screen changes, with nice white flashing transition, to the next high
peak, featuring some transparent looking env. mapped torus, accompanied with 4
other objects, that are all enlighted by a big yellow lightsource... looks very
weird and is a must for all extacy fanatics, should be a cool trip...
After the known break it goes on with the credits part, the credits are zooming
backwards in front of a disting and moving texture, and suddenly they zoom back
again, through the sight of the viewer. Also nice done but in comparison with
the other shown effex, not the burner at all...
This screen is followed by a real nice hires picture by Lance of Aggression,
showing some bird that seems to be built of metal at some points... After that
the screen turns red and while on the right side a pixeled girl by Exocet is
appearing, on the left is popping some dithered stuff up, leaving enough space
in the middle to present some very complex vector that reminds a bit to some
doubled mushroom. The whole thing is grey/blue textured and bumpmapped.
After a while to check it out and say boah, the vector is removed from the
screen, the pixels are fading out and another red stuffy texture appears on the
screen. The coming effect is a bit hard to describe, some flares stuff again,
in style of old shaded bobs or dots stuff maybe, anyway. The flares are going to
be more and more and moving around on the screen, and the credits are displayed
in the lower right corner.
At next another thingie comes up, this time you can see delayed morphing vectors
turning around on the screen, a good effect but falls back slightly after all
the wow effects so far... but no fear... there is still coming some more thing
to make you say "boah" ;)
The last effect of the main part is a flight over a textured landscape, with
hills and lakes. I know, this isn't new as all but since it gives the impression
that the horizon is sinking into some fog it looks real stunning... Since it is
the last part just one thing is missing, the end...
And this comes along with another real cool MP2 soundtrack by Candyman, and he
uses massive 3o3 acid bleeps now, and I must say I like that tune much more as
the main track that seems to repeat itself a bit too much. This comes along with
some thanx by the DHS posse to the people who helped them out and not to forget,
some morphing environment mapped vector object in the background. Also this part
of the demo got some timing, in the way as the whole screen is enlighted when
some special samples in the music coming up... cool thing... Over and out...
Final words...
What to say, without any doubt a demo you can show also the PC freak next door,
but only if your already boosted Falcon got it's final kick with a Centurbo card
or maybe Afterburner as well. I wont say it is too slow to watch on a 16 MHz
Falcon, and if you take low detail mode it is much more fluous than some polish
demos, and even in high detail mode it isn't a slideshow like "Revertant" for
example, but it isn't soo fun to watch anymore. But therefore you get the latest
swedish definition of digital art on the Falcon, a bunch of great effex, many
light flares, complex morphing env. mapped vectors, texture mapped vectors,
melting vectors, lightsources and much more, accompanied with real nice grafix
and a surprising outstanding MP2 soundtrack from Cream's coder Candyman...
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originality... 8o % - nice ideas, hi-end fx, partly not done so far, but slow!
effex......... 95 % - env. mapped, morphing, transparent, flares, a bit slow!
visuals....... 85 % - cool grafix and logos, well selected textures
musix......... 9o % - the technoing main track falls back behind the 3o3 outtro
design........ 9o % - good transitions, timed, well chosen colours
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all in one.... 88 % - A real cool demo but a hardware killer!
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If you wonder about the rating of the originality, so I just want to mention
that I rated it a bit down because of the fact that the demo has a damn hardware
hunger.
.tSCc. moondog
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