Review - demo from Funtop'1998 - Blame: MMA vs ALK.

 REFRESH                  
           (C) Exploder/EXTREME           
                                          
          Size: about disk          
          First place FUNTOP'98          
                                          
As opposed to the deeply plot-driven FOREVER, VAV
I made  a demo in my  favorite style,
when  idea and  concept  replaces the flow
unprecedented effects. Unfortunately,
Refresh has not yet been released to the masses and judge
it can be  only  by  so  what was on
FT'98. And there were two and a half minutes of absolute
but  unprecedented action. Retell it
impossible  partly because I
Now  I don’t remember much anymore. Doubt it
in  that Refresh was, and that this is the first
the place is right not worth it. In general, on FT
beamed interesting intrigue - strong sy-
flat  demo  almost without  effects against
strong plotless with effects. It turned out
that people prefer something new in
coding area than the fate of one drug
mana...                                   
                                          
Main Effect:selecting  is impossible, so
like the whole demo one big main effect!
BlAME                   
    (C) ALK/SoK & M.M.A/SPEED SO./XTM     
                                          
           Size: 838 sectors           
          Third place FUNTOP'98          
                                          
Here you go It’s not an easy task to describe your
own demo. Yeah...               
                                          
At the beginning there is some nonsense called by the authors
not   otherwise  as realtime  calculated  rgb
plasma.  So what, realtime? So what?
what is RGB? It looks like a complete P!   
                                          
MMA> So make her loopy!           
ALK> Reluctant to think it takes a long time! Will go too
  so...                               
                                          
DEMO MESSAGER said that  someone  there
yielded something like water.                  
                                          
ALK>What do you see in this effect?        
MMA Me? Fireworks probably...  Very cheap!
ALK>Village you Ma, and also the Leader.
  This is in nature "drops on water". I
  them exactly likein DEMO.DESIGN.FAQ
  wrote, so I did!                
MMA>You hurry them up  have fun, then  on
  the drops will pull...                     
ALK> Nope.  Faster not it will work! Although
 you can  in one  third of the screen - look,
 how quickly! (assembles the effect for
  work in one third)                 
MMA> Well, what will happen in the other two thirds?
ALK>Like what? Of course, greetings!       
                                          
MMA> What other grindings? (after thinking a little
  with an expression of deep disappointment
  on the face) No, Shurik, you are _lost_ for
 demomyking...                      
                                          
...some kind of  round  alien face
scaled to the center of the screen....         
                                          
ALK> Well, I wrote a MOSAIC. Now I’ll show you.
MMA> Nonsense,  absolute  nonsense!  Why  so
  fast?                              
ALK> Well, you can’t please, then quickly, then
 slowly... In general, this is not an effect, but
  so - between parts of the "appearance"  for
  pictures.                            
MMA> Nope. We need to slow down, that is, show
  once, twice, third and so on
 nusu  fade. And redo nothing
  no need and it will be cool!               
                                          
[...x days pass, one week until FT'98]
                                          
ALK> This is what it will look like this  MOSAIC
  in the demo itself.                       
MMA NO FIPA FOR YOURSELF! This is for the brakes! You
  Why such long delivery delays?
  pitchfork?                                 
ALK> You yourself wanted to go slower!           
MMA>I  I said, leave it as it is, but
  repeat, decaying according to the sine! This
  Can this nonsense still be remade?           
ALK> (joyfully) No! Everything is already packed!  
                                          
...the same round face begins to illuminate
three lightin bunches...                
                                          
ALK> (thoughtfully) We need to write BUMP...    
MMA> Study the methods of  enemies and write more
 more fast and ferocious. Although he bumps
  and  on basic, find what else is there
  come up with ?                          
ALK> Yes, I already know how to write it, now
  I'll sit down for an hour and do...                 
                                          
[...after a while...]             
                                          
ALK> Here, actually, bump...             
MMAWell,  what? Why is he cool? Why  so
Is   slow? Yes, and some small one...    
ALK> So,  means  slow,  well, well... Ah
  where did you see it faster?                
MMA>POWER UP final release v2.0 remember
  you know, my friend? There, in the epilogue...   
ALK> I don’t remember, I saw it only once.     
                                          
[forced PUP viewing occurs]  
                                          
ALK>(upset) Well, to hell with it! But  I have three light sources.          
                                          
The successfully completed bump is replaced by
all 159 times seen by a fern leaf
known  in in narrow circles, as  FRACTAL
AFFINNO SET.                      
                                          
                                          
ALK>I made fractals here. There  they have
  DEMO.DESIGN.FAQ errors, guess what
 lamers. U their constants in the plate
  are confused. It's just  there are no words!Come-
  should I “watch” that demo, what’s it called?
MMA> RiseDemo. Do you need it? There were a hundred
  times these fractals. Also in Gift were from
  PHANTASY, up to E'97. 3 lamers  will be accepted!
ALK> Yes, you fell from the oak tree, Ma. Look at that 
 how they count quickly for me!  Yes
  still all colored, through 2 screens.
MMA> (criticizing  with all his might)  What the
 left  dots  appear in unnecessary places
  are they?ALK> WELL, YOU WOOKPECK! This is an iterative  you-
  number,  based on real
 integer  method!!!  Here
  throws  static error, causing
  causing breakdown of the luminescent layer on
  monitor screen  in strictly random
  places!!!                            
                                          
MMA> (loaded looking in  panel DN)  Well
  ok, just no more than one in the demo
 th fractal  and seconds by ten
  to the maximum... And that's as long as I'm kind!    
                                          
Not  everyone managed to vomit from fractals, like
on  screen  there appeared  something,  what  the most
advanced was  defined as chunky
voxels.                                   
                                          
ALK> It is necessary  indemo insert those "voxels",
  which I wrote immediately after E'97.  
MMA Yes, this is rotten, slow and in general!    
ALK>You always say that  my effects
  this is nonsense, and then everyone in the demes too
  and they defeat me...        
MMAWell, well... If it's faster, then
  small  doses  and not for long. But I'm done
  equals against!!!                      
                                          
[in a few days]                                           
ALK> Think about it, in "voxels"  this  la-
 mercy it was, I speeded everything up twice
  ril! Look...                   
MMA Why not the whole screen?               
ALK> (ignoring the question) You at least you know,
 what I don’t calculate the map, but store it
  already ready!                         
MMA> At least I learned something at E'97, otherwise
  NOUMENON and "MANDELBROTA" 30 September
  I counted the kund for some reason...              
ALK> Do you even know what kind of card is there?
  "voxels" ?  I wanted in Photoshop
  make a gradient...                   
MMA> (interrupting with confidence  ignorant
  answer  student) It's like that freak,
  which was first illuminated with lanterns...
                                          
ALK> How did you guess? (very surprised)
                                          
MMA>Intuition...                          
                                          
                                          
And  here it crashestunnel (and then second-
swarm) which  everyone  seen  not  just 159
times... Every second of this tunnel can
do it on bass!                        
                                          
[ten days before FT'98]                 
                                          
ALK> I wrote a tunnel here. Here...     
MMA> (with difficulty holding back) Do you even know
  IN HOW MANY DEMOS HAS THIS ALREADY BEEN?      
ALK> (ignoring the question) There is another number hundred
  you can change it!                    
MMA> (interested) Put 100... ALK> 100 is too much, let's try 50!             
                                          
[The screen turned out  absolutely  round
tunnel. After several attempts,
Lost that only option with three sides
more or less smacks of novelty]              
                                          
                                          
MMA> Leave this alone! And it’s really not necessary -
  long. You yourself  understand that this is fake!
ALK> FAKE!?  Do you remember yourself after BRAIN?
  CRASH! How did you walk here  and  yelled,
  what tunnels - rulez... A are made
 they it's that simple! I also wanted to do
  so that he  flyed across the screen, but
  then scored.                         
MMA> (trying  to decide "FILE TO DISK"
  or "DISC TO FILE", pronounces half-she-
  then) ...And thank God!              
                                          
And  here  on  the viewer unfolds like this
plane like a chessboard and along it
how they jumpballs. Pretty good effect
a feat from any point of view.                
                                          
MMA>I  here I came up with an effect,  called
  "Ball Aggression". Will you code it?      
                                          
ALK> What exactly is there?                
                                          
[M.M.A   briefly explains the essence of the matter, and
example of a box from floppy disks (plane) and
packs of cigarettes (ball) tries to explain] 
                                          
ALK> Well, you can’t do without object methods.
 thread-oriented programming...
                                          
[in a couple of weeks] ALK> Look, the dogs are jumping!                  
MMA I don’t understand! Is that all? Where are the balls?
ALK>Isn't that enough for you? There are 6 of them here as many as 6 pieces
  jumps at the same time!                 
MMA>I  I said - aggression!  So their
  there should be  10, 20, 100 pieces, and they
  must attack from the depths of the screen...
ALK> So much more is possible. But now by mass
  ke, and they jump on any picture
  they can.  A  if without a mask, then of course
  you can  and run twenty. But here
  everything is calculated!!!                
                                          
MMA (about  myself) Another idea buried
  alive... However  interesting,  I this
  I came up with the effect myself, or I saw it
  earlier on AMIGA. And don’t ask
  who cares...                    
                                          
And  here  on the viewer relaxed with balls
how a natural swastika flies out on a white
red background.This is just some kind of fascism...
                                          
MMA>I'm here  at the lecture another effect
  thought. In short, you can play with your
  tick  by  like a cartoon, but so that
  was full screen?!!  I'm talking about everything here
  thought. (holds out a piece of paper with a drawing
  kami)                                
                                          
ALK> To  hell  animation - give it real time!
  I’ll do it, what are you doing?
  have you signed up yet?  ,              
MMA> No,  it just makes me sick. And then,
 if  you can have inverted pentagrams
  crosses, gothic font, ave satana,
  member on full screen, inscription FUCK OFF,
  then why not a swastika?           
                                          
[after how many days]                    
                                          
ALK> (showing a fully functional effect
  fect) So how?                        
MMA> Why is your circle angular? And out- 
  melts in jerks.                       
ALK> I  made it with triangles, like  and 
  the cross itself.                           
MMA> (sliding along the wall)What for?          
ALK> (without a shadow of embarrassment) engine  should 
  be united!                         
MMA> (holding back) Remake to make a circle 
  was round, but flew out smoothly!       
                                          
[in a few more days]                
                                          
ALK> (strongly tracing someone in STS)   
     What a scoundrel...                        
MMA> Made it smoother, faster and rounder?   
ALK> Yeah, look!                         
MMA (horrified) WHAT IS THIS???                 
                                          
ALK> So how? Previously, you know, it was 8
  phases of the circle departure. And now I keep
  these circles are like sprites, I’ll install them
  first,  and along the way  RLE packing. When-
  Throw it, now there are 64 phases of circle departure.   
MMA> (slowly coming to my senses) Circle again
  is it built with triangles?             
                                          
ALK> Of course, but what else?            
MMA>And just  build a circle Mr.
  Korolev, of course, cannot!         
ALK>Why,  if you can use triangles.
  And all these  circles are slow.
MMA> (furious) Circle   must  be
  circle!                         
                                          
ALK> Okay, okay... (Looking for old source
 circle on ZEUS, starts optimizing it
   You can hear exclams: Come on!
  This is lame! What if so?)           
                                          
[In half an hour...]                       
                                          
ALK> (assembling the sketch into the procedure
  ru circles  with undisguised surprise
  with children's delight)  Quickly
  how! So this is in realtime  displays-
  You can go!                          
                                          
Appears  unidentified face in which
the enlightened viewer  recognizes   chapter
Microsoft -  Bill Pates. It starts
sausage this way and that, and then twist
clockwise.                       
                                          
After loading, the viewer sees multicolor
new picture  and hears an incomprehensible squeak from
speakers, which  the authors  proudly call
digital speech.                          
[X days until FT]                            
MMA> In general, I showed the “layout”  to the musician,
 he still has people there  he was, so here,
 one there says,  that multicolor
  buggy...                            
ALK> (taught in a tone, loading  ill-fated
  source MULTICOLOR)  So  he has
  left PENTAGON!                      
MMA> Normal Pentagon! And they are glitches
  this is the name! (points to the screen)
ALK> (lightweight) And this is not a glitch, it’s simple
  this is due to the fact that in one familiar place
  there are two "pixels" with different  brightness
  bones and when shifted it changes!   
MMA> Get rid of it immediately, do
  8 gradations!                          
ALK> I tried here, the converter is 16 colors
  I was doing it on PC, and then Ma came, and
  vulgarized everything! I'll make a button -  on-
  Press Z at start and get 16 colors!
A man in a jacket flies out, it seems like the same one
Pates.  Flies  himself,  flies, and then how
will stop. Insidious demo messager message
spares - da payment iz near, which is according to plan
authors translates as  "Reckoning is near-
ka..." [5 days before FT]                            
                                          
MMA> (persistently) Listen to me very carefully
  sure! First, the flying Pates...  he
  flies, flies... and then immediately walks!
ALK> (in a colorless voice, thoughtfully immersed
  embedded in the wilds of the plan of the 2nd part, recorded
  sunny on A4 sheets) Okay, okay, I
  got it...                             
MMA> What do you understand!!!???               
ALK> Listen, write it all down on paper - I
  for some reason  with  I understand the papers better...
  I'll do it tonight...            
                                          
                                          
And  this is where the incomprehensible begins... Man
in  suit  smiling somewhere  let's go,  him
take a photo,  he  smiles,   and then
They'll hit you in the face with a cake! It probably hurts. But
man  not  gives up, but  on the contrary, trying
again repeat the entire path traveled.
Surprisingly, take two is also
ends with cake. Next  loading.  The screen freezes
the inscription is in an incomprehensible language, and from the dynamic
once again  a strange squeak is heard. Appearing
a monster is born, so red and
something blinking wildly. That's it...            
                                          
But no, not everything! The man blinked at himself and laughed
was greeted by a friendly blue screen, available
for understanding only by people who have worked with
wIN'95  decent  amount  time. Here we go
decide: is this job worthy for the third month?
whether  or not. 180 people at FT'98 already one
Once you've decided...                             
Smooth Effect: It seems to me that the most
original in everything  this nonsense is
part  with bouncing balls. Although the report
mentioning the error at the end is also worthy, but
more  plot movement than effect. (To everyone,
who has multiviewer, described in one of
ZXF, I recommend watching the ending of the demo in
"data bus" mode :*) )                
                                          
Р.S. And don't be offended by the word "nonsense". 
  It's just five letters...           
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