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³              Mind Riot
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   Firstly  planned  released  at  the
infamous   Hurricane-party   but   not
released   before  a  half-year  after
that,  Mind  Riot  hit the charts when
releases  where  in  vacuum  after The
Party  2.   Dr.Jekylls  demo did bring
Andromeda  back into the international
top.
   While  depacking  the first parts a
victorian-style  picture by Fairfax is
shown.    This   picture   shows   off
Fairfax' skills as an artist.
   With  A  countdown-like  intro  and
some  nice  logos,  of  which  one  in
interlace flicker enormously, the demo
start  of with its effects.  First off
is a 32colour lightsourced transparent
vectorobject.     Then,following   the
vector  is  some  realtime  calculated
circles  which  Dr.   Jekyll  is  very
proud  of since he uses the scrolltext
to    brag    about    them.     These
circlecalculations  are  also  used in
the intro.
   Other   noteable  effects  are  the
tunnelbox  (also seen in Mirror) and a
beutiful   lightsourced   wave-effect.
There  are  two impressions the viewer
will   sit   back  with  after  having
watched  this  demo.   One  of them is
that  Duel  must  have  had  some huge
surplus  of unused logos lying around.
All  of  them  well  drawn and nice to
look  at.   The other is the memory of
all  those  scrollers  following every
part of Mind Riot.
   The  music  by Mr.Man is timed very
good  to the intro but varies a bit in
quality  from  part  to  part,  but of
course, this is not lowquality.
   Graphics:   Logos,logos,logos.   In
addition:     some   fonts   and   the
depackingpicture.  International elite
quality!
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³¼              Surrealism
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   This   production   from  Andromeda
consists  only of one routine and some
design  mish-mash.   Surrealism starts
off  with the good, old Andromeda-sign
zooming   out   from  the  screen  and
disappearing.  Then a small, but quite
good  picture  fades  in.  When fading
out the artpiece turns into a swarm of
squares,  of which some are pulsating.
This  swarm  flies  up to the top left
corner  of  the  screen  and  the show
starts.   Part  for  part a vectorcube
consisting   of   different  types  of
vectorgraphics  fades  in.  The top of
the  cube  is made up of dots,the next
part  is snowmapped and the third part
is in glass-mode.  Following this is a
chesspart,  a  line-part and finally a
normal  blue  filled  part.   All  the
filled    parts    have   lightsourced
colours.
   This    astounding    routine   was
supposed  to  be a part of Mr.Hyde and
Dr.Jekyll's  new demo but they thought
it wouldn't suit the design...  :-)
   The  music  by  Interphace  fits the
intro  very nice and is quite relaxing
to listen to.

³              Sequential
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   Having  been  under  production for
about  2 years, Sequential was finally
released  at  The  Gathering 1994.  It
was  earlier  given  the name "Q.E.D."
but  this  was changed due to the fact
that  Talent released a demo with that
very   name  at  The  Gathering  1993.
Then,  after  TG93  HeadX  planned  to
release  it  at  Rendesvouz'93  but it
wasn't finished before the deadline.
   HeadX  has coded this demo and it's
his  first  demo  for  Andromeda  even
though  he has been in the group for a
long  time.   The demo starts off with
the  best  part  of the demo.  Letters
resembling  an  "Andromeda" logo falls
down  and  shivers  as jelly.  This is
the  most  impressive part of the demo
for non-coders.  HeadX follows up this
with  a  rollercoaster  with loops and
curves,  a nice "mirror"-effect inside
a  cube  and an inconvex magnet-vector
with  balls  being  attracted  to  the
magnet.
   The   graphics  are  astounding  as
always in Andromeda releases.  Fairfax
and  Quest  has drawn the graphics and
done    an    impressive   job.    The
soundtracks  is  very  varied  and  of
course of good quality.  The best part
of  the  music  is the end theme which
can melt anyone.
   The  design  is  generally good but
lacks  the  little bit Andromeda demos
like "Mind riot" and "D.O.S." has got.
But, I guess HeadX has his own ways of
designing
   "Sequential" really deserved to win
The  Gathering'94 and by that he broke
a limit:  "Sequential" was Andromeda's
first  major  victory.   All  the  1st
prizes   at   big   parties  like  The
Gathering  or  The  Party have gone to
other    groups   but   now   it   was
Andromeda's turn.

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