dihalt 2011 demos review
by sq/skrju






6 place - Mooncat by AER

5 place - the monsters by AER





First of all, in order to put everything in its place from the very beginning, you need
tell us a little about who AER is. Indeed, without knowledge of this it is impossible
will understand his demos, why he makes them and what goals he pursues.

I’ll say right away that I myself don’t know who he is. I only know that he lives in a village with
called Malinovka. Wikipedia gives ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THREE (I specifically counted)
settlements with this name - and this is only in Russia. This is, in my opinion,
very revealing: AER is an unknown guy from an unknown
a place lost in the Eurasian expanses, he lives and makes his own
pleasure, in almost complete isolation from civilization - and does as he thinks
necessary, as only he likes.

The second thing I know about him is that he started learning assembly language quite recently.
Literally, I haven’t had time to master the second interrupts yet. Remember how for all of us,
15 years ago, this was also almost the most difficult? Well, I'm sure he
will master them.And he will do many more dems, both with the first interruptions and with the second,
and even, perhaps, with the third and fourth - especially since it works
at an astonishing pace.

Overall, if I were voting at the party, I would give it an 8 or 9 out of 10.
Most, in any case, would give lower ratings, and still
As a result, AER would take the places it is in now.

And the last thing I would like to say about the AER demos - and I’m talking about both at once
Demah is music. Moreover, the author pays the main attention to it, and
It is for the sake of music that he makes his demos. So, this is the last time I felt like this
I had music on the Spectrum while watching Bomb from Ate Bit. You listen - and
like Spectrum, old AY, old-school sounding track - but something seems wrong,
seems like something completely different. You listen - either the beeper is there or something else
something. Or maybe it really is a beeper?..



4 place - kilo demo by AAA band



And as you know, we are a hot people

And we can’t stand the tenderness of calves,

But we love calf souls,

We love to beat people, we love to beat people,

We love to hit people and screw things up.


The most normal part in kilo demo is, of course, the intro. Where
presentation of the authors. Firstly, there is MmcM music.Secondly, if you believe
to the authors, hand-drawn faces. The scroller is just normal. Well anyway
in general. But the epilogue was very tiring for half an hour. There's probably nothing more
say. Maybe there aren't too many effects for a megademo. I would like more.
Look, look. And then bam - and an epilogue for half an hour. completely converted.



3 place - 8bit trashmo by AAA band



First of all, I would like to say the following. How many years has it been with us?
General Sound? About fourteen years old, probably; no matter - experts me in any
in case they will gloatingly correct it. During these fourteen years several dems were made under
G.S. But among all of them there was not a single demo with normal music! None
normal track on GS! In fourteen years, with so many musicians! Everything
it ended either in a ripped mod or some insipid pop song. Question in
how generally advisable it is to use GS in demos in this case, if
you can write a track on AY, which sounds much more pleasant and is generally better
all parameters except the number of channels? Why music on General Sound
is it an end in itself? Why can't musicians write a normal track for
normal demo; Why is everything limited to mods at the 93 level? Like
rip - take the mods of the endnineties - from muffler, radix, xhale. That's what
should sound in demos under GS. Why isn't this happening? It's unclear yet.

I will now make a reservation so as not to be misunderstood. I'm not saying music
here - bad. Yerzmyey - well done. But when I watch 8bit trashmo, I have
I get the feeling that the demo is running with the sound turned off, and the mod is playing in my
Fubare. Anyway - to the point.

It seems we can say with some confidence that AAA Band made this demo
a decisive step forward. 8 bit trashmo, as you may have already noticed, is completely
consists of animation. The “effects” are quite monotonous and only take up something
about a third of the screen. The most different from the rest and that's probably why
The one that seems to be the best is at the very beginning, with flying octahedra.
A small plus is that the "effects" are not placed in a frame, or worse - not
spinning in the middle of some picture. Otherwise it could have been really bad.

On the one hand, of course, it’s gratifying for the AAA Band that they don’t get hung up on
megademo. This is encouraging and encouraging. The only thing that doesn't please me is that they keep walking around
Yes, and they still won’t make a real demo, although having tiboh,
repeated and deserved winner of coding competitions, they are not only
they could - they simply have to make real, normal demos. But AAA
continues to stand his ground.

And one more very important point that pleasantly surprised me. At allthe pictures stand,
untouched AAA, signatures of the authors. And all authors are listed in credits. And themselves
The pictures were transferred to the Spectrum quite well, in general. It's sudden
turned out to be the bright side.



2 place - the board by alone coder



Over the past few years, Alone Coder has been reproached for what he does
strange demos for strange hardware, and that these demos don’t work, let alone on
most real world - and even on emulators. Well, that's all true. But Alco remains
true to himself and sticks to his line - which is generally characteristic of everyone
democompo participants. This time Alco made a demo for ATM Turbo 2+ with 14 MHz
(or ZX-Evolution), and this demo is, in fact, a demonstration of cool
3d engine with color per point. The first effect is a chessboard, after which
this deme is named. It's hard to say whether this happened by chance, or whether Alone Coder chose
purposefully, but such a name is even too logical, since this
the effect is, in fact, the only demo effect in the demo, if you don’t take into account
messenger. 3D objects, of course, are very cool: a lot of polygons, decent
fps. But they do not create a demo atmosphere, they rather look like a demonstration
Zd engine. Well, that is, here they are spinning; they show us clearly, in numbers,
how cool is that- and this is probably technically really cool. But it's not
evokes no emotion. Therefore, taking into account all that has been said, the final phrase about
that “128k is dead” looks completely unconvincing.

In general, the board, which is quite logical, is very similar to Nedodemo and TheLink. But in
first of all, it is not similar to what is happening on the screen, and not to what
they are made on a computer - but what they leave after viewing is the same
impression. Imagine that they brought you a bucket of selected strawberries, only with
the beds are juicy, large, and smell great. A whole bucket. you start it
eat, and you realize that it is completely tasteless. You eat one or two berries,
you take the third one - and you see that the bucket is already completely empty. How so
happened? Not clear.

That’s what I don’t understand.

It’s not clear how such a brilliant coder (I think, without exaggeration, it’s possible)
say), like Alco, which has such powerful resources, can do
almost everything - realizes its powers in demos, not only not completely, but
maybe somewhere even less than half. Just imagine what
wonderful demos we could have: long, real, with classical or
with some new incredible effects, with fast 3d, with clear
synchronization under GS-mod. If Alco wanted it that way. But for some reason he doesn’t want to.
Or maybe he wants to, but doesn’t do it yet for some reason. Whatmaybe -
there is no doubt about it. Therefore, we will wait.

1 place - MCMXCVII by thesuper