²½   Intro Reviews  
¹¼     Intros from The Gathering'94

- ³"Bjarne" by Stone Arts¹

   The first production from the newly
stoned  guys in STA.  The intro starts
off   with  a  "Bjarne"  logo  by  the
STA-coder  Coke,  who coded "Rush" for
the  40k-competition  at  TG94.  After
dabbling  with  this picture a bit two
waving  Stone  Arts logos fades in and
we're  presented  with  a  textscreen.
Then  ²the  coder  of  this  production
whose  name we won't mention (42 don't
give  publicity  to  rascists!)¹  talks
about  the  first  effect  which  is a
dotflag  consisting  of quite-a-lot-of
dots.   
   Up next is a dotcube (the number of
dots  is  actually one quarter of what
the  coder  says  because  a method of
bitplane shifting has been used).  The
dotcube which is very well coded zooms
out  and  we've  feeded with some more
text  before  this  intro's  highlight
comes    up:     after    the    usual
intro-precalculation    waiting    (or
maybe,   in   this   case,  copperlist
waiting)  a VERY SMOOTH bitmaprotation
starts  off.  This looked just amazing
on the big screen at the party.
²   The  chiptune  is  just  brilliant!¹
Excellent, Braintumour & Heywood!  The
graphics in this intro consists of one
logo  and  a font which is average but
it's  not  bad  either.  A good job by
Coke, that means.
   A deserved victory, Stone Arts!

Score:                          (9/10)

- ³"Funky Pixels" by Spaceballs¹

   Lone Starr strikes back.  This time
in cooperation with Vinnie.  The first
"effect"  is  a  precalculated fratcal
landscape  which  struck  many  at the
Gathering wich the thought ²"wow!"¹
   This  is very impressive, and don't
think  that  it's  crap  because  it's
precalculated.   It  takes  A  LOT  of
coding  skills to precalculate this so
Lone Starr is a good coder, no doubt.
   The  second  effect is a fullscreen
rubbervector  which does not look very
good    with   the   chosen   colours,
especially on a monitor.  Still a nice
effect   but   be  more  careful  when
selecting  colour Lone Starr.  And you
know  what  he say:  "I love these RGB
colours"  I  knew  he was special, but
not  this  special.   Maybe he's got a
SMALL knack for Warhol-art?
   Graphics:   none.  Music by vinnie:
Amazing.   This  module does not sound
like    a    chiptune.     Very   good
Spaceballs!

Score:                          (7/10)

- ³"Rush" by Stone Arts¹

   The    only    intro    using   the
"textscreens  and  silly effects takes
time"-trick  often seen in 40k-intros.
   This  second intro by contains some
plasma-effects,     the     compulsory
bitmaprotation  and  a cool textwriter
to  mention some effects.  The code is
done  by  Coke,  music by Redferne and
the  last  effect  in  the intro is by
Ranx   (which   now   has   left   for
Balance(?)).
   An  OK  intro  which  was among the
five  best.   My  personal  feeling is
that  it wasn't the third best but, of
course,  my taste is different to many
others and there was a very democratic
vote-system  at  TG94  so all honor to
Coke  & Company for grabbing the third
spot in the competition.
   Some  things worth mentioning about
"Rush"   is   the   use   of  inconvex
rubber-vector       which       looked
stupendously  nice  ona big screen and
the  use  of  the bitmaprotation which
looked awful on a monitor.

Score:                            6/10
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