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LAST MINUTE REVIEWS
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Some small items appeared quite short before the release, such as those long
forgotten things that now got kicked out finally...
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"Houba" by Zuul
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system ... ST, STe, 512 KB RAM, RGB, STEEM
credits .. code - Stix
gfx - kwll
msx - Jess of Overlanders
release .. first shown up 1995/96 but obviously never really spreaded
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This small multipart screen was already wellknown to me, as this screen was
released already about 7 years (!) ago by Tronic of Effect as part of the so
called "Casimir Park" demo by "Zig Zag"... Obviously he was drunken as he put
the stuff together as the maker was no one else than Stix of Zuul. While Tronic
released the screen together with another one, the "Xotrion Demo" (Hu, maybe it
is another rarity?! Please mail me if you want me to give it to the public!) it
comes now along alone...
What to say, while the screen uses a wellknown chip tune by Jess of Overlanders
it offers us slick Amiga 5oo design, just as it was in the days of 1993... some
screens in nice colours, always featuring some filled vector objects like a pen,
a gameboy and other stuff, as well as some very weird sorted texts.
Very stunning is the part with the vector scenery later on, showing a quite
detailed spaceship landing on a station. Unfortunately this one is the last
screen, leaving a dark purple background.
As I know that screen nothing really new for me... but eh... who cares, it is a
nice one and that is what counts, nice design using several nice transitions,
good vector objects, nice pixels and a cool tune, even though it isn't a new one
in the end...
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"Golden Age" by Hysteria
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system ... ST, STe, 512 KB RAM, RGB, STEEM
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In fact that band was just known from its name to me before, I never saw a demo
or screen by them and now a bunch of screens for a complete megademo were found
somewhere... 8 screens now wait for a small look... One thing that was quite
interesting is the fact that at least two members of Hysteria made their way on
the ST demo scene in the very early nineties, as Jovis, their grafician joined
Zuul later on and did some very cool artwork for them, while Mephistow, their
musician joined Dune later on.
GREETING
The greetings screen, what else, featuring some quite nice pixels by Jovis, a
scroller made with a very big 4 plane font and finally some noisy tracker musix
with very low replay rate. To be honest, this one looks like a demo maker screen
done with DCK...
LOADER
This one says "hello boys... here's the main menu!" but in the end it is just
the loaderscreen, but a nice one, featuring some nice pixels by Jovis and a cool
chip tune using digidrums by Mephistow. But if you finally press space as the
screen is telling you you get a reset... hmmpf.
MEGAZOOM
This one features a neat picture by Jovis again, that was later used in the Zuul
demo "Lame Trop" if I remember right, as those screens here weren't released in
the end. You can listen to a looped sample and scroll around the zoomed picture
in fullscreen using the cursor keys. Meuh...
PLASMA
Woargl, Count Zero?! Nope, Mephistow, did the msx. We get a fullscreen, showing
a nice pixeled logo by Jovis and we also see the date of creation... 12.o2.91!
Huuah... a true oldie! But somehow we don't get a plasma as the title suggests
at first, you have to play around with the keyboard to create some very nasty
plasma effects, doing nothing brings the same, nothing... one of the typical
"change coordinates/datas" screens from the past... unfortunately this screen
doesn't quits clean as the others do...
RESET
This screen features a starfield, some line vector logo as well as the contact
adress from Hysteria (use it at your own risk, hehe). The best thing in here is
the cool chiptune using some kind of digidrums.
SPACE
This one brings a trackertune, with starfield and vector bobs in different
objects as well as a scroller. Hmmm... not much to add here.
WATZAT
This one brings a scroller, disting moving background and some screwed up gfx,
old chip musix by Mad the Max, as well as vertical rasters.
YAFOULE
This one says only "Are you ready for it?" and smashes some bombs on purple
background... :(
What to say? The screens are on the state of 199o/91... mostly quite simple for
the todays taste, bringing no revolutionary effects, just a bunch of very old
schoolish things. Therefore some screens giving a sneak look at the skills of
some of their members, as the pixels by Jovis are already very nice as well as
some of the musix by Mephistow have a very special and own touch.
But back in 1991 this demo surely would have been one of hundreds nobody really
would remember today.
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