AAAparty demoreview
by sq/skrju






There were 20 dem at this party. Twenty! The number is completely unprecedented - even on
Fantope was half the size. However, you should not be seduced ahead of time -
Still, quantity does not always translate into quality.

Twenty demos is a lot. Everyone deserves equal attention, and we don't have
the right to deprive a review of any of them. But, of course, consider in detail
Each one won't work. Some demos are such that even if they were
The only ones on the compo, it would still not be possible to examine them in detail.

I’ll warn you right away - for anyone even more or less familiar with the demoscene
some shortcomings in the demos below will be too obvious and
axiomatic; I will try not to mention such shortcomings again,
focusing on more important things.

It is also worth noting that there was an intrigue on this component, which, you see, in our
time doesn't happen very often.

Well, let's start, as usual, from the bottom up.



20 place - Video Car by AER

19 place - Duragon by AER

18 place - MK Beeper by AER

16 place - Democode by AER










AER demos are traditionally considered all together. And traditionally we write the same thing.
Converted graphics - and very frightening, criminal, crazy music,
sometimes turning simply into sounds, from which I am in the most perfect
delighted! Especially in Democode. I watched and re-listened to it more than anyone else
the rest of the demos from this party. This is just something incredible. That's exactly it
the sound we dreamed of creating in 2003, making Fuck you scene. And now
I admit that AER has surpassed us. AER is the discovery of the year for me.

In addition, in terms of the number of last places in the demo compo, AER can only compete with
that only with skrju.

AER, keep doing what you're doing! And don't listen to anyone.



17 place - ZX-Keeper by Shadowssoft



Deme from one effect - an attribute flame against the background of a picture with the devil, on
whose horns the colors sparkle to the music. I don't know why, but I liked it.
Somehow everything goes very well with the music, and the colors are chosen well, and in general
ok!



15 place - Time of Night by Night Software



Dema is not in Russian or English, so I understood practically nothing
words from what is said there. In such a situation it is very difficult to evaluate the deme,
because Time of Night consists almost entirely of text. The start is done
for a movie - very interesting and even quite stylish. But already in the next
This style is completely lost on stage.

The demo also has some kind of attribute effect, but it’s not clear whether it works
it is as intended. If yes, then that's very cool; attribute noise! If not -
I'd like to see what it would have looked like in the original. And yes, too much
old school music, just beyond old school, so much so that it can even be
listen!



14 place - Z80 Megademo by Triumph



"ZX-Spectrum CHOKB computer for sale" (c)

How can I write a review of this demo? This is completely impossible. You need to understand that
This demo is a time machine. It was not made by Triumph, the authors of the legendary Psychosis
cult beccuL and colossal Miracle, organizers of Final Shoque, heaps
disk cracks, intros, own games and much, much more.This demo
made by teenage ninth-graders from the city of Chelyabinsk, for whom the Spectrum was
more important than anything in the world. They talked about the Spectrum in class, walking on the street, walking
visit each other. We discussed the news that he sent in a letter to
five-inch floppy disk, the same Spectrum-sick ninth-grader from the other end
Russia. We discussed how unattainably cool Vibrations and Illusion were made.
We shared our successes in completing “48 Irons”. They argued about whether they would release Digital
Reality promised by Paradise Lost and Megaball (after all, someone wrote somewhere that
That's it - they're collecting orders!) We were waiting for the new issue of ZX-Format. Cherished every rumor about
upcoming Enlight'97, without even dreaming of going there and seeing all those who were
for them it is more important and authoritative than all the world's celebrities...

They made this demo. And this is what I want to tell them. Guys, there's still a lot to come
a lot of interesting things. No, even so: the most interesting is yet to come!..



13 place - AAA-Party by Anonymous



A slideshow with a plot directed against the organizer of this demo party, with a funny
music and pictures from the imageboard.



12 place - Znakostrochnik by Andrew Zhiglov


Dema - with a concept, about games. The start of the demo is excellent, with stars. Very cool
although not framed. And then immediately, the next variation of this effect, with
from the very beginning, the authors ruin the entire main idea of ​​the demo, which is
to show colored sprites in motion on a colored background. Everything is going well - and
suddenly from the very beginning there was a clash when stars overlapped each other. It's right away
spoils the whole impression. It would seem like a trifle, but it is from such trifles that the
complete picture. However, this flashing is also repeated in Cybernoid and
Xecutor, although all this could have been avoided by setting a little more competent
trajectories. Although, of course, after flashing on the stars, this no longer matters.

The demo was somewhat reminiscent of demos from newart - Image Megademo and Reconstruction Chaos,
according to the atmosphere, according to the idea somewhere, maybe. I hope this won't be the last
author's deme.



11 place - Gift 4 Blade'17 by Triumph



The time machine from 1996 switches to 1998. Dema from the same guys from
Chelyabinsk. From those - but not from those! A lot has happened in two years. you
Do you remember how quickly time flew by then? They are no longer ninth graders - they
preparing to graduate from school and enter adulthood. Already completed Enlight'97,
SpectrumThe demoscene is at its peak, and all this is reflected in this demo.
Gift to Sashka Rakitin, Blade, the same one from Triumph, congratulations on
Happy 17th birthday!.. Something is clearly glimmering ahead, but it’s not quite clear yet,
what. Once we finish school, what happens next? We don't know yet, and honestly
In other words, we don’t really want to know. We have a Spectrum, a lot more so far
unrealized ideas and plans, and the brilliant Antokha Shumakov. We'll do more
a lot of interesting things!..

And you and I, in turn, will wait.



10 place - DotsElka by Destr



Demo, consisting of one effect with the music "Jingle Bells", covers of which on
Spectrum alone, recorded on a five-inch floppy disk and stacked,
cover the distance from Earth to Mercury three times. So, this demo got in
indecently high. The effect is beautiful and fast: the tree rotates, the analyzer
spreads away from it, the snowball pleasantly spins and falls. In general, who
knows, maybe the deme is in the right place. But there is too little of it, I want something
Also, and the screen is too empty. It happens that after a bad effect you don’t want to
continuation of the demo. But this is still not the case.



9 place - Yolk'10 by Debris



Again a demo about the New Year and the Christmas tree. There are two Christmas trees this time. And they are completely
they pull out the whole demo, which, of course, looks more like an intro or a gift than it does,
in general, it is. Cheerful music, greetings and congratulations to all visitors
forum zx.pk.ru - and funny painted Christmas trees. I think that tiboh is not at all
I didn’t expect any place, and was completely satisfied with the result.



8 place - E-Demo SAA Music by Mick



From here on, things get much more serious. Megademo of three
parts, one of which is an epilogue. As the author admits to us in credits for this
epilogue, the ideas of the first and second parts (as, in general, the epilogue itself) are taken from
Sam Coupe and PC respectively. Funny animation after the final scroller too
converted. And everything would have been fine if it weren’t for the frankly unsuccessful music, which,
By the way, it was also converted from somewhere. But all this, of course, has no
meaning, because Mick himself told us about it, he's great. I don't know what else
add. In general, such demos are very difficult to comment on - because
everything is clear, and the author himself understands everything, and everyone understands everything. So, what's up here?
you'll add more. And the second part, with the cat, is normal. As usual, we are waiting for the next onesdem.



7 place - Gift 4 All by GM BIT



Three minutes of the coolest scroller with snowflakes flying across the screen. And greetings to
end. The scroller was made cool, but I didn't read the text. Seventh place overall.




6 place - Anal Funk for Silly Punk by TOGYAF



Gradually we get to the most interesting part.

It’s immediately clear that behind this demo hides hundreds of bile and hatred towards one
popular forum and specifically to some of its visitors. This is their business, and ours
They don’t concern you, ordinary people. You and I are interested in this topic
exclusively from an aesthetic, demoscene point of view. You and I would like
figure out what it is.

And it is a mixture of awesome, super cool graphics, drawn with
awe and love, carefully and very high quality - and disgusting
texts written, as it may seem, not initiated into the essence of the problem
to the viewer concerned with teenagers with sexual deviations. After watching
one gets the feeling that the demo was made by completely opposite people who
They don’t even know each other and are on opposite sides of good and evil.However, all this is not as far from the truth as it might seem at first glance.
I’ll just say, for those who don’t know them personally, that Wizard and Budder are the most modest,
the most intelligent and very kind people, and Sand is a great guy, he’s on board, and
good friend.

But - about the demo. Intra is made amazingly - stylish, dynamic, with very good
graphics, and all this is perfectly synchronized with the music. Next comes
horizontal scroller, in color, with some important information - and
vertical, with completely stupid and mediocre verses. About the poems I will say
Here's the thing: I absolutely don't care who doesn't love who or, on the contrary, loves who
considers a fagot, and who he doesn’t consider, who fucks whom and who doesn’t fuck - me,
Like any normal person, I absolutely don’t care about all this. But if in demo
there is a text, I want to read it, and I want it to be of high quality, I want
enjoy the text - no matter what it is written about. Let him be with
swearing, about fagots and shit, let there be a drawn picture next to this text
a man in shorts and jerking off - but please, write such poems so that they
evoked emotions in me. I'm not even talking about those to whom they are addressed. I'm not at all
I’m sure these people were at least a little upset or angry,
after reading all this. These texts are completely harmless. If you really want to offend
person - offend him. Do this, find the sore callus,press on it.
Play to his weak points. And all these texts about dicks, fagots and shit -
they don't work. Because this is childhood and a whim.

And after all this there follows a completely crazy scene. In it the dick is chasing
a man against the backdrop of a very cool and detailed city. I won't get tired
repeat how great the graphics are here. Even her bad text is not at all
ruined it. And in this part he is also helplessly bad.

The part with toilets, from which cartoon characters pop out to the music, with
the point of view of satire is the most successful in the whole deme. Perfectly reworked motto in
at the very top, the overall picture as a whole, and finally, the text. This is what I'm talking about
spoke. But all it took was a little wit - and it turned out very
funny scroller. Well, then comes the epilogue, in which the member tries for the second time
catch up with the cartoon character, and Pac-Man runs after them both and tries to
calm down

This is our sixth place.



5 place - Black-White Demo by VNN



VNN, Nikolai Vitenko is a very respected person. If anyone doesn't already know (although
there are hardly any), he is 56 years old, and he still makes demos! I would really like to
make demos at 56 years old! In addition, he is an unsurpassed master of border effects -
This, by the way, is very rare,because since the times of Rst7 and X-Trade no one
never made cool border effects again. And VNN did and still does
por.

The Black-White demo itself consists of three parts: intro, main effect and
epilogue. Introduction - horizontal scrolling of a black and white picture (picture,
By the way, it's pretty cool). Epilogue - animation and scroller. And about the main effect
worth mentioning separately. Of course, those who know VNN will not be at all surprised that this
border effect. And very impressive. It's a chessboard bending over
exactly in the curb area. Looks really cool and I have absolutely no idea how it is
is being done.

Also, the demo plays music on GS, which apparently added additional
points.



4 place - Nice day for fishing by moroz1999 & Vassa



Well what can I say? This deme did not make it into the winning top three, but took fourth place
says that this demo was the best among all the others, and this is absolutely
deservedly so. The first thing that catches your eye is the absolutely stunning graphics.
Vassy. I'm not an artist and I can't say anything specific except that she
I really like it.

The falling bomb is also done very cool - attribute clouds of several
bitplanes look great and create a tangible illusion"multimatographic".
The explosion is drawn very carefully and efficiently. The only thing I would like is
it was faster, in the same dynamics as the bomb, and so it is too similar to
slideshow and slows down the tempo a bit. Or is it slow motion?

Then comes the good old attribute plasma, which, it seems, has never been
was as on topic as here. Well, it follows quite logically after everything
This is nuclear winter and charred skeletons. And a dead little pussy :)

But the funniest thing in this demo is the little pussy flying at the end on credits.

Thank you, Moroz and Vassa!



3 place - Animations by Halloween group



If you believe the credits - and you and I have no reason not to believe them - this demo was written
in 1998, and only after so many years found its audience.

And if this is really so (and it is), then you and I are in a very
awkward position. The thing is, if psb made a demo these days, it would
did everything completely differently, and now, looking at Animations from above
Thirteen years old, he himself perfectly sees all the shortcomings and roughness. remember
talking about them again is a waste. It's like blaming the thin, the strong and
successful person is that at school he was fat, got bad grades and his
everyone beat me for it.

Therefore we willWe will be extremely brief and will focus on the most characteristic points.

We'll skip the Intro under General Sound's shrill solo - there's nothing in it
there is no characteristic. But in the Dream multicolor part, I would like to draw your attention
pay attention to the screen design. Do you see how clear and harmonious everything is? window with
The effects themselves are small, at the bottom is the name of the effect, and, it would seem, the entire screen
everything around is empty - but for some reason there is no feeling of emptiness. It seems like everything is on its own
places. Remember this feeling. In a minute you will have something to compare it with. Oh
multicolor itself has nothing to say - multicolor as multicolor is quite cool,
probably for that time.

Then there is a part called Bubble mania - we won’t dwell on that either
we will. Fortunately, after it comes a subtle directorial move, which was also
implemented in Adrenalize by Global Corp., in the demo from Fantop-98, in the same
maybe a year. Unfortunately, we don’t have an exact release date for Animations - quite
It’s likely that this part was made before Fantop, but maybe it was even planned
earlier.

And now, a minute later, the Morph things part begins (a very apt name,
by the way; pun). Now it's time to remember the feeling during Dream Multicolor and
compare it with what you see on the screen. Unnecessary background and frame, in
where the main effect occurs, completely distract all attention and
look very foreign. Remove the framecome up with a normal background if
after all, it’s a little empty without him - and the effect would look much better.

The move with greetings is very successful. Both the effect itself and the “Not plasma” die. Unless
the font of the ZerO group evokes a touching attack of nostalgia - but this is already
minor details.

It all ends with a sine chessboard, which acts as an epilogue.

After this demo you catch yourself thinking about what you really want psb to do
something these days, not 1998.



2 place - Scroller by Demarche



An impeccable demo of one effect. The way she should be.

A funny concept that few people understood because they either didn’t read the scroller or
I read it without knowing English. It rarely happens that a demo consists of one scroller and one
effect, although with variations, looks without the slightest tension throughout
a few minutes. And Scroller looks good. And it looks easy to have at least two
times. The first time you look at the effects, the second time you read the scroll.

In addition, the music in this demo is the best of all twenty (more precisely, almost twenty
- music was not in everyone). The action with digital strikers is simple and ingenious.

Bravo.



1 place - Latrax Minus by Entire Group



And finally, first place.

Paradoxically, this demo is much less flawless than the previous one, but
despite this, she is in a completely deserved place. And here's why.

Latrax Minus is like a breath of air. Maybe not quite full breasted yet,
maybe not very frosty yet - but definitely a sip and definitely
air. There is something in it that has never been seen on the Spectrum before. She
somewhat reminiscent of Pondlife - in style, maybe in atmosphere. Maybe
just a white background. But still, not only them.

Firstly, in this deme it is unusual in itself and unusual, very competent
graphics used. It does not interfere, does not flicker, does not replace the effects
or passages in a track - it performs a completely utilitarian function, it serves
deme, appears and disappears, complementing the effect. At Latrax we can observe very
a rare example of a successful symbiosis of graphics and effect, when you don’t understand where it is,
Actually, the graphics, and where the effect is - everything is so uniform. And precisely thanks to
the graphics create a feeling of transitions, transitions from one effect to another in
best traditions of c64. Robus definitely knows what he's doing. Such things are not allowed
do it by accident.

Do you know what my favorite effect in this demo is? Actually, I just caught myself now
thinking that this is the first demeof all twenty in which we can talk about
completely different individual effects. So, my favorite effect is morphing
through noise. It's simple, it's framed, and it's cool.

And even weak text does not spoil this demo. In general, I would advocate a ban
using the phrases “Open your mind/eyes” and “Do you like/Do you want” in demos on
legislative level. But, in general, what does it matter? I am already you
you see - I'm finding fault.

It's a shame that Entire is so rarely made by demos. Almost once every 14 years. This
completely wrong. Robus, do you agree?