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Interview with Deez of EVOLUTION
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UCM.... Hello Deez! This interview isn't tought to start from scratch as the
usual ones, but tought to enlight the latest developments around you and
your way to go in the next time... so how are you?
Deez... Hi Moondog, I'm fine thanks, a bit stressed out at the moment, looking
for a new job. (was made redundant a few days ago)
UCM.... You've teamed up now under the label -Evolution-, a new formed label in
the Falcon scene. As far as I know Baggio is also on board. Can you tell
us a bit more about the memberstate? Are there more people in this new
team?
Deez... Evolution is: me, Baggio and Zounds. Me and Zounds do all the coding
while Baggio is responsible for music and a new website.
UCM.... I guess -Mind Design- is history now, isn't it? What was the reason to
build up a completely new band? Has -Mind Design- reached its end
somehow or do you needed to put an end under the way you were going so
far?
Deez... Viking stopped all his Atari projects right after Sillyventure2k and
sold his Falcon to me two years ago, I kept coding on my own but I was
never happy with what I produced, it's very difficult to produce decent
demos without any help.
Viking promised me music all the time but he never finished any. During
Mekka-Symposium I asked Baggio and Zounds (Wildfire) if they wanted to
start a new project, to do something different. I think all three of us
were in a desperate need for inspiration so we decided to start all over
again from scratch.
As for Mind-Design I still have a thing or two to finish off before
closing this chapter.
UCM.... What memories do you have on your times in -Mind Design-? Was it easy to
skip this part of your scene history?
Deez... Obviously I have loads of memories, me and Viking started in the early
90s on the ST but we never really released anything, I still have lots
of sources, music and graphics on floppies at my parents place
somewhere, most of them are broken though so dont expect any retro stuff
from me!
The last thing Mind-Design did as a proper team was Hardcore in 2000,
too bad only a small part was released, we had big plans for that demo,
it was supposed to be our first really big production, but we never had
the time to put everything together, the music was cut down from four
minutes to a minute and a half or something the day before we left for
Sillyventure.
UCM.... As -Mind Design- was member of the Lunatic Asylum, and since LOUD! does
not seem to exist as demo band anymore, it seems as this little alliance
is at its end now, as only PARANOIA are left in it. Or will -Evolution-
take over the place of -Mind Design-?
Deez... I had a chat with Paranoid a while ago about this and I think we both
agreed to end that "cooperation", it wasn't much of an alliance though.
UCM.... I heard the rumour that the label -Evolution- has something to do with
the fact that this team was founded to create demos for CT6o Falcons
only in the future, or why have you taken that name?
Deez... The name hasn't got anything to do with the CT60 at all, it's a good
name, thats it. We spent an hour or so on irc trying to come up with a
good name, the people on #atariswe came up with all sorts of weird names
for us but finally Zounds suggested Evolution and after a bit of
research on the web to make sure it wasn't already taken we settled for
this.
UCM.... Up to now, all demos, also the ones by -Mind Design- were some kind of
downwards compatible with the standard Falcon machines, just that they
were a bit slower... Will future productions still run on that machines
in a so called "light" version, or will you skip those features?
Deez... I tried to make "light" versions of everything I produced but in the end
it was too hard and I really didn't want to cut out features since it
ruined the whole thing and I sometimes had to re-arrange graphics, it
was too much work basically.
A Falcon demo is planned for EIL and it will require more than 14MB of
RAM so it wont run on a standard Falcon. The reason for this is that we
wanted to produce something that takes advantage of the CT60.
Since the demo will be fully optimised for 060 it will run painfully
slow on a 16MHz machine so we decided to skip compatibility with
standard falcons all together and go for 32MB or more memory as well.
UCM.... If you really want to go to create special CT6o demos, will you have an
eye on compatibility to other acceleration boards or will this be
skipped as well then? So far the enhanced versions of several demos were
happy to run on other acceleration boards as well. So what?
Deez... This demo will run on any Falcon as long as it has enough memory, we
haven't yet decided what that magic limit is but expect something like
32MB or more. I think this demo will look like a big slideshow even on a
CT2 so there is no point trying to make it run on a slower machine.
150 CT60 boards has been ordered so the userbase is big enough even
though a lot of sceners still use a standard Falcon.
UCM.... So far the label -Evolution- is still surrounded by some mystic fog,
many people know about this, but there isn't anything we can get our
hands on. When will you launch the -Evolution- webpage? I heard at
first, it will be launched together with the first production, but as
you announced the first releases for the EIL2k3, there is still a long
time of that uncertainity. So can you enlight this thing a bit here?
Deez... The website should be finished soon I hope, we are working on this. I'm
not sure if the EIL demo will be our first release or if we will have
time to finish something before, right now we are all waiting for our
CT60s.
UCM.... Are there any precious things to release in sight under the -Evolution-
label, we can talk about, or is all stuff still top secret?
Deez... Look out for our EIL production, it will knock you off the chair!
UCM.... I wonder if -Evolution- is only tought to produce demos. As far as I
know you're working in professional games development nowadays. Could
this mean that you will make some steps in that direction on Falcon too,
or aren't you interested by this in your free time?
Deez... There are no plans to release a game since this takes a lot of time but
personally I have a few ideas for games, not sure if I ever will have
the time to finish anything though. Since I'm currently un-employed I
have a lot of time over for my own productions, however most of my time
is spent working on various demos for my CV, some for PC and some for
Atari.
UCM.... And at last, what dreams and toughts do you have for the near future
in your "scene life"? Do you have set any goals to reach atm?
Deez... At the moment I want to finish my old EIL'01 demo (!) aswell as our new
Falcon demo. I think EIL'03 will be a great event, so many people to
meet and so little time to do it!
UCM.... And, as usual, you can spread now a few greetings or ideas you have to
our readers if you want...
Deez... Make sure you attend EIL next year and dont miss the Falcon demo compo!
UCM.... Ok, many thanx for this little interview and enlighting a bit the
mysterious fogs about -Evolution-. Good luck for your coming works and
see ya next time...
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