Optron #19 02 октября 1998

Демо

FT'98: Demo Compo - Consideration of demo-jobs with Fun Top'a.

                Demo Compo

Paul Vysotsky / Gendalf, 1998


  Well, it will continue consideration of the work begun in the 
previous release. 



                 Refrashe


  Group: Extreme

  City: Vladimir


  Until now, no one except the immediate
Festival participants, have not seen this work ...

  Rumor has it that the Honorable authors
rework their offspring. But what, then, is to be sozertsatsat 
spektrumistam, evaluate strict - and therefore fair - the 
critics? Cobbled together in haste semi-finished and lacquered 
or patch up doll? 

  If the rumors are true, and the authors really "squeezed" the 
demo, then you just need to disqualify the job.



  K-proof score: 193

  Mesto: 1


  So, let's better go back to
Other works: they are, though not ranked first, but available 
to the masses. And it pleases.




               5th Element


  Group: Eternity Industry

  City: Carpet


  The world as we know, consists of four
elements. This, I suppose, - fire,
water, copper pipes and anything else out there. Experts 
correct me. But, anyway, title "The Fifth Element" is even more 
pretentious than, say, "The Eighth Wonder of the World" or 
"Fourth Rome". However, despite a promising philosophical title

particular ideology and a deep sense of
This demo does not show up.


        Eternity industry presents

              5th Element


  The traditional name. By the way, not bad
entrance effects - cube, rotating in
clubs colorless, but still beautiful
plasma. In addition, on the sides kuba in mortal agony grimace 
somewhere Face. Well, cube, and images on it Encoders played 
before, but now combine this with others, not so simple, the 
effect of ... In Overall, a novel reeks.


  Then - smoky plasma, rather angular. How are improperly used 
in the demos standard plasma remember we will not.


  Plasma appears several more times,
moreover, its presence is prolonged. Can
even think that this - the new "Insanely
effect ".

  Quite interesting to show a different effect, the nature of 
which I never understood before end. It seems the lens is very 
wrong shape, rotating against a background of well-made plasma. 
Also interesting idea: to play with the plasma against a 
stationary object. The authors have chosen toothy mouth - Not 
bad. 

  The course of the walk-on demo, met
interesting structure - a small house with a massive
canopy. All of this rotated, then it was
move away and then disappeared altogether. Maybe this is 
real-time, but in B. Mednonogova final-cut'e was certainly more 
beautiful, Though converted.


  "Now you see the force of the fifth element?
Now we want to believe in it "- ask authors to enemy's English.

  Yes, perhaps there is an element. That -
elusive and perfect tension in the air when you look at the 
stars and you happy. This is what sometimes makes

We do not act like animals. This is something that
fills my heart when you see that
Still do not live just ... But not
the authors were able to do this show. They
just gave his brainchild the sonorous name. That's all.

  However, in terms of coding, work
clearly deserves respect. Music too
very successful. On this optimistic note and consider.


  For the set-points: 74

  Place: 4



                   TV-X


  Group: Die Krupps

  City: Novocherkassk


  Curve, and the like as "cool" quivering
font viewer quickly annoying. Permanently hung on the screen 
unpretentious picture - That's all beginning.


  There are pluses. Or rather, one - music.
Good, dynamic, it is simply not suited to such a grayish paper.

  Following the tradition this year, and here turned up a 
demon. At this time - plump, with chubby cheeks, but still

evil and disgusting as the census
Party Enlight'97 ...

  So, show off, this little devil, and then crawled across the 
screen centrifugal smoke (probably hell). Then he disappeared, 
but his replaced the more bizarre vision - a huge head of a 
young demon sprawling on some amphitheater. Really, the 
strongest abstract! I still ask myself -

What would it mean, and with the parties whether I
watching?


  vodka + beer = speccy rulez ...


  Interesting idea! But if we continue
such things mathematical "operations", we get a very intricate 
system of equations: 


  Champagne - Alcohol = sprite

  sprite + yogurt = pc

  beer + beer = lots of beer

  speccy + beer + bear = FunTop

  Communism = Soviet Power + ...


  It seems I am a little carried away ... Okay,
continue.

  At the end of died down a really nice
effect - plasma in the form of overlapping
each other circles.

  By the degree of lack of ultimate meaning and
purpose, this work is, rightly, could claim one of the first 
places. 


  For the set-points: 36

  Place: 7



            Garlic Respiration


  Group: Ufo group

  City: Kharkov


  They took, then the simplest figure -
man made, though, of the five
matches - and began to rotate. But this
already, comrades! Remember: Opera
Hallucinations! And people out there spinning
harder, much harder, and in general - on
man looked like a ...


  - ... Okay, okay - continued Virtual Professor - We will not 
only be judged on that one. Look further ...


  And what is this? Pendulum? No? Why? You
it's like in BASIC? .. What? Sprites?!
No? But anyway - this is not the effect is sorry, uh ... 
Director's finding ... 

  What you have there? Stop, but where is the music gone? After 
all, nothing is loaded! And, do you think - is it cool? Well, 
well ... Think and more ... 

  That, once the skull? Clear, clean it!
So what you have decorated it with guns
and the cylinder? What do you think - if everyone was so 
pleased with the skull, then one extra anyone worse will not? 
You're wrong! This was the last straw! And I warned - no me 
more demons and skulls! 

  - But, Professor, we did not know ... A
Now, pomotrite, as we wonder greetings
sending ...

  - WHAT-O-O? This is, in your opinion, I wonder?
Two fans cool ... Yeah ...

  Oh, finally an epilogue! .. Ungrammatical,
yeah ... Oh, I forgot - do you think it's cool.
And how you managed to scrolled window
with the text? Wai-wai, it's brilliant! That
"Evrodemo", you say? And here we are you and
estimate of their scale - with such intelligent and demand more!

  Say, I missed DOOM-a prominent part?
And yet on the whole screen? Yeah, so, so
You are also not in BASIC? No? Strange ...

  Remove the student's record-book! I can not deduct your
this kind of work! Bring to resit
something else ... How do you just want to remake this? Well, 
if you just want to send a commission! .. 

  ... Even when a UFO unlucky
The door closed, the Virtual Professor
remembered a phrase he had seen in one of
ehokonferentsy:

  - Oh, so started demoshny Kharkov! Yes
it also all be equal! And now, as
dropped!


  For the set-points: 8

  Place: 12



                 Forever


  Group: Digital Reality

  City: Novgorod


  No doubt, this demo stand out from the total
mass and somewhat smoothed out a heavy impression on the 
remaining works. That is why we consider it in the end. She In 
some places, even axiomatic: is para new effects can be traced

the general idea. Having said so many good words
it's time to add "but": the work - not a masterpiece,
although close to it.


  We enter the room - it has a table. This is
beginning. Like, convert, but it looks
very nice.

  Music for some reason, expectations are not met.

  Then we contemplate the man looming
above the ground and gradually going crazy ...

  Skyscrapers - it's scary. Long, unbearably long stretches 
city: bridges and vacant lots, brick homes and muddy river 
drainage. And all this red. And all this eternal crimson 
crushes on you. Eventually You forget about it. You do not 
notice it. You accustomed. And you're not real ... people. You 
just go. You - just a part of this mass of steel, machinery and 
salaries of something false and fake, and not

such a need, as you think. After all, you
- Not a man. You're more than that: a conscious social unit. Or 
part of it. 

  It's - a world of executioners and covetous. World
strong, which has become all-powerful. A world where
feelings are not needed. Where is the love itself - a legend, a 
children's fairy tale. Why is this legend? After all, people of 
our world, it only hinders! Prevents going to kill and be 
hampered beast. Why do we love, why do we need extra

knock hearts? Why do we have stories about the two
tombs for these hearts, the tombs at
century woven fine thorns? AND
true, why?

  But somehow there is always a nice girl.
Very clean and youthful, with the emergence of a
everything seems to be about to begin again.
There's a lovely kiss. And not because
he needed someone. Kiss just fine. Just like that. Beautiful 
shining sun, a beautiful breeze, beautiful life. 

  And no, nothing that will kill. And you can not put an end to 
this. And always after darkness, delusion, of living in fear - 
comes the awakening. Return to the eternal, beautiful, 
inexplicable and, indeed required.


  And nothing stops the two hearts when
they want to connect.


  Well ... "Optimistic end!" - As
Rasp said.

  So that's what they think about the eternal boys
from Digital Reality. Or at least,
want to show off what they think. Topic "Binary
Love "live in their hearts.

  There are, however, other points of view. Uncle Freud, for 
example, would reduce everything to sex drive. 

  What do you think?


  For the set-points: 184

  Place: 2



              4K Intro Compo


  Furthermore Demo Compo, was still a competition of 
mini-demos, not larger than 4K. 

  There were even very good ideas, and
sometimes, you wondered: how
does it all fit in such a scanty amount of bytes?



  So ...

  Little, very little was new, smart, just good, finally. In 
the best Party provides only BlAME and FOREVER.

Almost everything else is just not supposed to
go to the competition of such magnitude. This
not even for every Gift'a would fit.

  But there were many other things, it is hardly
substitute the lack of common sense.
There was a lot of skulls. Many demons. A lot of bombast and 
self-confidence. Cheap show. 

  Much has been brazenly Pruszcz beyond all limits
reasonable horrible jelly-like substance.
I mean, pl ... No! Hand goes numb, do not make me type this 
vile term! 

  Through the entire contest thread running theme of IBM PC, 
the company Microsoft, lady Bill Gates. If it goes further,

the share of Speccy will be only the role of guns
exposures of all this - and nothing else. AND
will then become our only parody of the Spectrum
on the platform, not inherent value platform.
Nice?

  Now, let's untimely
gone from us Enlight.

  What is a bottomless pit, and lay between E'96 E'97! These 
were not just different levels - they were different worlds! 
E'97 brought with a feast of dozens of new ideas

first demo was truly meaningful, meaningful to the end. Simple
set of codes do at that time the art of harmonious place.

  And in 1998? What does he bring? Where is he, the new
qualitative leap!

  Alas! We saw only the repeated echoing of the old ideas, like 
a senile shamkane, beginning throes. Couple erupted flashes was 
only an exception to the rule. 

  No matter how hard it is to admit, but this year demostroenie 
likely to remain in place. 


                              Sincerely,

                           Paul Vysotsky /

                                   Gendalf