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"COMPILE MJJ A 10 ANS + 1" by MJJ PROD
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system .. ST, STe, STEEM, RGB
credits . code - Zorro2, Bigfoot, Squale, Fenris, San-A, Godfather, Tooseb
gfx - F.F., Wilfried
msx - NoMore of Animal Mine, Mad Max, Big Alec, Count Zero
size .... one disk
release . 12/o3
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This is no big demo but a bunch of screens and intros done by several MJJ PROD
members that were, as the title says, done within the last 11 years and not
released because of different reasons so far.
After a bootloader with rasters and the homepage adress, we get the main menu,
presenting 1o different screens that can be selected by pressing a number on the
keypad. The menu looks ok, very oldschoolish with a big but unspectacular MJJ
logo, jumping rasterbars in the background and a little scrolly, mainly written
in... french :)
So not much words to lose, lets check the single screens. After pressing one of
the numbers, you get a little information screen with a zooming chessboard and
some infos to the single screens, unfortunately again mainly in french. I think
I have to mention that the main menu is memory resident and you come back after
each single screen without problems... Well done...
-1- "Cursor" by Bigfoot
This screen brings us an oldschool but always nice looking effect, a rastered
disting vertical scrolling background in all colours of the rainbow together
with some textdisplayer with a mad cursor and a chiptune. That's it... Nice
screen that can't hide his oldschool origin.
-2- "Demo" by Squale
Arf! What an oldschoolish thing that reminds me in its outfit hard to some old
Germs DCK screens, sorry to say that. It brings us a disting MJJ logo, a scroll
on rasters, two jumping MJJ logos, sound analyzers and something like vertical
rasters in the background as well as a damn old chiptune... Not a screen to
watch twice and longer than a minute...
-3- "Fullfish" by Bigfoot
This one is a fullscreen with a jumping scroller and a mad disting MJJ logo in
front of a little picture. Not that bad but looks quite outdated anyway. Nice to
hear an old Mad Max digidrum tune.
-4- "MJJ 001" by Fenris & San-A
This oldie brings us some title picture, then another one with a disting MJJ
logo a jumping scroller and a tracker tune with damn low replay frequency. This
screen was thought to be released in the Transbeauce demo and so it is even a
lot older than "just" 11 years... and this old style you see at any bit... Have
I mentioned that it wasn't taken for the demo?
-5- "Piche" by Bigfoot
Erm.. This screen is just a pixeled picture of a guy with a bicycle crash that
has lost his head and glues on a wall, together with a scroller. Little joke
a side, he still wips with his feet to the music... But afterall, again some
screen you wouldn't watch twice.
-6- "Raster" by Bigfoot
He brings us now some vertical rasterstuff that can be modified in its waveforms
by pressing several keys. It comes along with an old Count Zero tune and a
scrolly. Nothing spectacular, a state of the art screen in the early nineties
but some kind of boring today.
-7- "ScrollPT" by Bigfoot
This is a quite interesting screen, bringing us the tortured head of a guy and
a dotsscroller that comes along as circlescroll and in other ways later on. You
can select different musix while pressing the function keys and you can make his
eye move around as well. Still an oldschoolish screen but some kind of funny and
for me the best screen in this compile so far.
-8- "Modplayer" by Godfather
This is a simple STE module player, showing a picture, sound analyzers, a scroll
and a swinging MJJ logo. It is a bit ugly to use, you have to type in the name
of the module that is in the same directory of the screen to run the screen...
What to say... watched once and surely never again.
-9- "Demons" by Tooseb
This screen was coded by Tooseb under his old nick Pulsar (of NeXT).
This screen stays black at first, then we get a picture already used in a TLB
demo, it was "Oooh Crickey..." if I remember right. It comes along with a scroll
and 3 animated skull sprites, and the title music from the game No Second Price.
Hmmm... what to say... oooould stuff.
-0- "Exotica" by Tooseb
This brings a fullscreen with a rasterscroller using ripped grafix from the game
Outrun and from other sources. Best thing is the older sid tune by Tao... Not a
burner screen at all.
At last, on the disk you will find another screen, "Sangoku" by Tooseb, also
coded under his old nick Pulsar, and this brings a french favour, Dragon Ball
stuff, a picture, sprites, sound analyzers, jumping logo and a swinging Dragon
Ball logo as well as a scroller. Not that bad even though I don't like all that
Manga and Anime stuff at all.
Furthermore you can find the bootloader on the disk as well as some README's.
That's it...
Final words... Somehow the whole thing leaves me the impression of a harddisk
cleaning, digging out old stuff that was never thought to be
released, in parts surely with a good reason. Such a wave of old
styled stuff is hard digestible today, esp. since the most of the
screens wheren't even state of the art in the times they were
once done. On the other hand I have to admit that this is a way
to save some old stuff from being wasted completely. I had done
quite common things 8 years back with some leftovers from never
released .tnb. things... but after all a collection of old stuff
can never weight up the release of a new and fresh little demo
at all...
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