 DEMO REVIEWS
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 by DEF KLF & SPY 3 of Mad Vision


]- ANGST - by the Delta Force.


  ANGST  is a new kind of sampled music
demo from the german band DELTA FORCE.
  It has been released in December 91 &
it's made by Newmode (code) & Big Alec.
  The demo consists of a simple black &
white logo "ANGST"  and  we can  hear a
very long sample of an english speaking
preacher. That's  an  extract  from the
Belgium techno music band,Front 242.
  The  originality  of the demo is that
you needn't  many  mbytes to load ANGST
because the DF's routine, loads & plays
digit music at the same time !
  Nevertheless the sound quality is not
very good.Other demos from DF with this
brand-new routine should come soon.

   Very hard to give marks to this demo
as it is a "minimalistic" one.

 CODE   : 74%  For the original routine
 GFX    : ---  Violent environment...
 MUSIC  : 70%  Long but low quality
 IDEA   : 78%  Never done on ST.
 IMPRES : 50%  Quickly boring...
 OVERALL: 59%  That's okay only once,if
             you are not a fan of F242.


] - SPEED LIGHT - by The untouchables
]and friends...   (HOTLINE-TUC-TWB...)

 We would want to test objectively this
demo, but  when  we have  seen a screen
called: "BEAM 2"  we failed, because it
is simply an old intro  from Mad Vision
for  the  Replicants. They have added a
logo,a scroller and some equalizers but
Tony B. of Untouchables has not even be
able to  change  the  sinus  table  and
the colours of the rasters !!!!

 CODE   : 15%  Is everything ripped ?
 GFX    : 20%  Main menu ok from GOD
 MUSIC  : 70%  Classic... Mad Max,CZ0
 IDEA   : 18%  Lack of ideas...
 IMPRES : 30%  There's 2-3 screens OK
 OVERALL: 23%  Boring because  each time
you  come  back to the same place in the
main menu,so you have to spend  hours to
go where you want to because there is no
name with  the doors. All that  is shown
has already be seen on other demos...




] - THE MASSIVE ATTACK by Mad Vision

 We are not going to test our show , it
would not be very fair and  interesting
that is just to inform you,that it is a
demo without a main menu , but a little
bit like an Amiga show...  We are quite
proud of it, even if that's not perfect
we tried to do something original , and
we   hope   the  Massive  Attack   will
motivate  ST  bands to do shows inspite
of  classic megademos because it can be
made  faster so the screens are not too
old  fashioned   when   the   disk   is
released...


] - THE ULTIMATE MUSIC COLLECTOR by 004
]                          of Mad Vision

  Once again it is just to inform you ,
that  we released a music disk. It  was
originaly done two years ago,but we had
never spread it because of our lazyness
and our lack of motivation. That  is  a
bit old now, but nevertheless more than
400 muzak are on the disk, it must be a
world record...


] - IMAGINA DEMO by The Dynamic duo.

 After their entertaining Superior demo
the  English duo is back. But  we  must
admit  that we waited something  better
from  them.  Superior  demo   had  very
original screens, a game , no main menu
and the  programmers had done top work.
This time  most of the screens are ugly
and  boring. If  the main menu is quite
good and original ( it uses cadaver gfx
with  a little cyclist to  choose  your
demo screen ) and if a few screens  are
very interesting , we could expect much
more from the Dynamic duo.

 CODE   : 71%  menu,3d,Scrolls are OK.
 GFX    : 40%  Often horrible.
 MUSIC  : 70%  Classic(CZ0,MAD MAX).
 IDEA   : 59%  A lack of ideas.
 IMPRES : 70%  With the neat main menu,
 OVERALL: 66%  you expect super screens
but  most  of  the time you are  a  bit
dissapointed.Nevertheless this demo has
been  coded  by just two people so from
this point of view that's great work.


] - MUSIC DISK from AXXIS.

A new music disk that I forget the name
( Cody/Axxis could you send the demo to
me ! ) from a German band that released
a good bobs demo two years ago and many
amiga sound track module menus. It only
works with 1 meg. This disk is  a  good
surprise  from Axxis  and  if  it  just
allowed  to listen to music from  games
and famous demos that is just splendid.

 CODE   : 78% 1meg permits nice effects
 GFX    : 69%  Simple but clean.
 MUSIC  : 86%  A lot...
 IDEA   : 68%  The menu is original.
 IMPRES : 74%  Pleasant to use.
 OVERALL: 68%  We can't expect too much
from a music disk , but this one is one
of my favorite with its zak-titles that
get bigger when you select them.

	
] - JUST BUGGIN' by A.C.F. + DF + XeneX

The German band of the Alliance,is back
with  a  new megademo that  works  only
with one meg.What struck you first with
surprise watching this demo is the main
menu.That's coded by NINJA III of Delta
Force  and it is simply the  best  main
menu  never  released  on  a   megademo
( except the Wott a scortcher one  that
is so original). You choose your screen
thanks to a cosmonaut, the graphics are
not ripped and are neat and various.The
animation of the main sprite is perfect
Multi-Scrolling-routine  is  okay  too.
 What  also  must  be  said  is  that a
musician join the band ( TAO ) and  his
sound chip musics are very good. Screen
levels are irregular, some are splendid
( little show with lot of  gfx ) others
are  less interresting ( copy of  known
screens ). Xenex  guest  screen is also
fabulous ( ...overscan phractals ! ).
"ACF" on  the  main menu allowed you to
go to the hidden screen.


 CODE   : 85%  Overscan coding.
 GFX    : 80%  Clean and various.
 MUSIC  : 99%  Original soundchip Zak !
 IDEA   : 70%  A few ideas.
 IMPRES : 88%  For the main menu, muzak
 OVERALL: 92%  and the GFX.


] - THE WORLD IN MY OYSTER - AURA

 The band is a new German one. In  fact
that's a new name for AXXIS. This  is a
party demo there's  no  main  menu  you
have  to  press space bar to watch  the
next screen.There are about 5 screens.
I  can't  say the demo is brilliant  or
lame,that's okay... That's the kind  of
demo  you  watch twice,or  3  times. We
can't  expect  or  ask  to much from  a
party demo, we simply hope to see  more
from AURA. People who made the demo had
fun making it, ( watch out the digits )
and that's a good thing.

] - NTM - ZUUL and lotsa guests

 This demo is on 2 disks, 95 percent of
the screens are old and lame.Except the
fullscreen from Pulsion which  is  good
and a  WONDERFUL starwar-scroll from  a
Dutch  band  which I've  forgotten  the
name.The rest of the disk is rubbish.

