Amanda’s Diary
What's a girl to do without lots of new Speccy games to look forward to. No tasty screen shots to drool over in preview sections of YS... but then there is an avenue of Spectivity still churning it out and that's the strange underground world of the demo writers. Thanks to the sterling efforts of Steffy Balli and our very own Martyn Prism, we have several C60's bursting with goodies. Apart from the E3 crew (from Bristol I think) why are all English demos so poor when compared to say the German or Polish ones?... and come to think of it, why are there no girl coders anywhere?? Please put me right if you know different. Thing is I'm getting fed up with endless demos written by clever sods with a very strange translation of English. I'm not slagging them off you understand, I can just about speak English myself (I'm from New Cross see) and certainly nothing more than the days of the week in french. It seems British boffs like Clive can invent things but not actually get the most out of them! Very strange. Once I get my head around Soundtracker I hope to stun the world with my PANDAGIRL megademo. It's going to have lots of massive willies in it because I'm also fed up with the way women are depicted in most demos. Having gigantic tits is a nightmare my euro friends (or so I'm told), you get hassled by moronic West Ham fans and bra straps make red marks in your back. I suggest you all read Freud and go watch the elfin Mia Farrow in Rosemarys Baby. You might just learn something. Although I doubt it... The first mind blowing demo I ever saw was Soundtrack IV, from an SU tape. Then there was the Lyra 2 - that dancing woman and lush music. It leaves you hungry for more I can tell you, especially when they cost virtually nothing to get hold of (or nothing at all if you have a dreamboat German penpal like Steffy!)
You maybe interested to know there are some sex ones too. Nothing sick of course, just stuff you can find in any news agents. Doubtless there is some loser living in Milton Keynes for instance, who will go out and stab some innocent victim after loading up computer porn but its just as likely to be all those moronic combat magazines under his bed and daily newspapers like The Sun that cause more twisted minds.
What I'm getting at is the fact that PD demos are not censored (unless by the conscience of the PD library bods). Sex demos don't bother me (they are rarely ever sexy!) but extreme right wing views do. The RED DEMO features a swastika for instance. I know the majority of demos are just light hearted fun things but lets be on the look out for the real evil that's around. Check out the NO NAZIS demo if you really want to voice your opposition.
If your 128 Speccy is in need of being pushed to its limits, may I suggest you load up GREAT MUSIC COLLECTION, SONG IN LINES 5, MQM 1-4, SUBSONIC 2, SHOCK, BIGFISH 5, LSD, SUPERSCORIA 2, SQR, MINDWARP... the list could go on but I'll leave that to the experts. And the first person to chant 'haircut, haircut' is going to get a severe beating.
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