Info Guide #02

Демо

Demopati - Overview of deficiencies demos 99-year.

                XYZ '99
  AlCo


   All dokanali! I can not stand aside and remain silent when 
others speak. 

   This year, our country has passed nemerenoe number demo 
party. The results of their widely discussed and debated in the 
computer presse.Lyudi arguing about style, code, organization, 
scene, the meaning of life, etc. May be, you will be interested 
parties' opinion man, so to speak, "with its bell tower?


   You already know the first ZG, that the demomeykingu I am 
extremely cool. But when the people writing the demo, became 
make them texts that directly states that the authors of this 
demo - the most helpful people on the scene, the demo - the 
best ever demomeykinga and revolution on a platform Speccy (to 
Phantom Lord'u refers) - I began to lose patience.


   At leisure, I leafed through some old
DejaVu (as you know, there is a section on the demo), and saw 
that dude is famously confused Eurodemo and trackmo, Realtime 
and one frame ...


   It so happened that the demonstrations last party got into 
my hands, together with some old demo. Reviews

forever came much earlier than most forever.
Judging by the reviews (supersyuzhetnoe demo, cool graphics, a 
new direction in demomeykinge - look worth it. I looked. 

   And what do we have? You ever seen a poorly digitized 
plotless videos, diluted disgusting konverchennymi

static images in chunks (vdumaytes!), and a mediocre music? If 
you have not seen, check. If you have seen (7up, for example), 
then surely the second time to watch zahotite.Ya not the same 
as the biggest maniac looked forever whole 9 times, trying to 
find at least some semblance of a plot, or at least

a good director (of speech koderskoy be (can not) find. vain. 
And you can even by eye to estimate the relationship between 
man, falling from a skyscraper (by the way, then that it 
falling from a skyscraper, I realized only with the third 
attempt, and then only after a hint a newspaper), a drug 
addict, Satanists, nuclear explosion and wireframe animations

a famous screen saver'a on PC?
But I found this nice demo glitch: the
my "Pentagon" she simply misses 3
parts: the hallucinations, the funnel and the ball with the 
rays. Skipping this is what I show 02/01 frame, after which the 
demo as nothing happened goes to the next

part.

   Some weirdo from LFG has managed to mention Anamnesis and 
7up together. Probably carelessly watched the first and did not 
notice the plot and the pair effects in 64COL, standing at 10 
floors above all the other effects of the year '99. And it must 
be the same this blurt out: "JAM is better! (For those who have 
not seen: the only effect This demo, drop down from the genre 
512b intro, dancing silhouette of a-la Lyra II. Still, I 
remember, I saw this on the Amiga ...) 

   16k intro differs from 4k unless
the presence of music. Why impose this ridiculous genre 
nedodemo, "but" pereintro? Mansion looks just CC99gift (Serzh 
Soft), and DIVE (CRG) - Best of the rest - painfully looks like 
the design on the GOA 4k! 

   But 4k intro C2H5OH (SerzhSoft) turned the presumption of 
4k. In intro not only introduced the story and the music stuck, 
and even portrayed the computer voice (As in HLAS)!


   Most small demo of the year (512b)
look for the first time neploho.Osobenno
want to highlight and SunDay ABSENT (you know that there is 
digital music? = 8 - []). 

   After DI: HALT all began grovel
about what kind of a whole NAPALM
horoshaya.Ne deny it, I fanatel from the previous
of EI (5th Element) - she was the best
in the '98 year. But this - obviously unworthy of '99!
We see only the second Refresh, but without
glitches in podgruzku and more decent
graphics. (By the way, most of the effects
looks only in the Turbo.) Moreover, from the good music 
writers, apparently, refused to altogether. (This also applies 
to other work This year, the exception - 63 bit 4, but about him

below.) And from the animated tunnel after
Refresh (as you remember, he loved to hang in the tunnel) is 
just sick, especially because The authors themselves write (in 
English) that against animatsii.Voobsche demo looks quite pale 
in comparison with the Power Up, which came at me the other day 
(thanx, Sergey!) 

   And here's another demo against animation.
63 bit 4 (AC). Guys, do you really think
that illiterate text may redeem the lack of plot? But I 
congratulate the authors - a revolutionary effect was found: 
the cube Inside (if anyone thinks this is a simple

effect, let him try to deduce the formula recalculation of 
coordinates for the case of landfill, partially falling over 
the back). And about the sketch in the final I had already 
proshelsya.Predyduschee demo from the same series (63 bit 3) 
looks on last year's level. Shadow - it's promoting.

Voxels in 3SC better (bourgeois us here until
ahead: from our Mars'ov at the moment is the most beautiful - 
of EyeAche 2, and most real - from Over the Top).


   With a light hand Progress (S4B / E'97) most of the country 
leaned on chanki.Moe personal opinion - they look nestilno, 
especially when look the same in different demo. Remember: 
Spectrum - not Microsha, he a color graphics adapter! I think 
with me according to the author Demomaking Dying (they even

trying to grab the JAM, as a drowning man
a straw).

   Introducing the new competitions, organizers have canceled 
gatherings starye.Kuda gone AY Digital Music? I say fact (just 
saw the First Association) - in this category we have long 
surpassed the Czechs! A tendering by GS Digital Music - pure 
advertising. 

   About the On-int Music - I'm once again convinced that this 
contest send only waste. Exception - E'96.



   So, to sum up:
Party year: CC'999
Coder of the year: Kolotov Sergei / SerzhSoft
Hit Year: ANAMNESIS / Real Masters

          NAPALM / Eternity Industry

          C2H5OH/SerzhSoft
Nightmare year: JAM / Digital Reality

             CLONe / ZEROTEAM

             JL # 16K/PARTYzans


   Demos must be something to show. So
finally decide what you demonstrate:
steepness of the code (like, I'm cool, so
3D Phong + Environment + Bump + Shade effect squeezed out of 
the Spectrum), or, indeed, the slope of Speccy?