½³   Demo Reviews   

¼²     Demos from The Gathering'94

²- "Sequential" by Andromeda.

¹   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.
   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
   ³"Sequential" really deserved to win
The Gathering'94!¹

²Scores:
Coding:                           7/10
Graphics:                         9/10
Soundtrack:                       8/10
Design:                           8/10
Overall:                          8/10

²- "Friday by eight" by Polka Brothers.

¹   "Friday  by  eight"  attained third
place  in  the  democompetition at The
Gathering'94.   It  starts with a logo
rendered  by  Colin  which  looks very
good.  The first thing you notice when
the  demo  has  started is the perfect
timing.    Airwalk   has  timed  every
little  effect to the music very good,
and  the  music  by Slide and Dice has
many   heavy  rythms  making  it  very
capable  of handling timing very good.
The first effects are a "funny" vector
cube,  some  nice  tunnels, splines,3d
spacecut and some rotating pictures of
"cars",  a "Polka" logo and some other
screens.   Then,  a  picture  by Mount
fades   in.    This   picture  is  not
amazing.   You  are  able to do better
things  with the AGA chipset.  This is
an  AGA  demo and should have graphics
supporting it.
   Some    other    effects    are   a
linetunnel,  which  gives  you  a real
"flying-feeling"   and  is  very  well
coded and a ball made out of lines.
   The  design  is  generally good and
gives us reason to wait with exitement
for the next demo from Polka Brothers.
   Music  by Slide and Dice.  Fast and
funky,    suiting   the   demo.    The
music-synchronization is awesome!

²Scores:
Coding:                           6/10
Graphics:                         5/10
Music:                            7/10
Design:                           6/10
Overall:                          6/10

²- "Quite Unusual" by Razor 1911

¹   Of  course, this is a quite unusual
demo.   Colorbird  and  Lizardking are
the  main  men  behind  this bigscreen
demo.  The only "effect" to talk about
is   an  animation  of  a  city.   the
animation is stretched out to fill the
whole  screen  so it doesn't look that
good  on  a  monitor  or  TV-set.  The
animation   runs  three  times  before
we're cut off and an end-part-scroller
conquers the screen.
   The  soundtrack  by  Lizardking  is
nice  and fits in the atmosphere.  The
titlepicture  from ³Danny/Spaceballs¹ is
excellent  as  always.   The design is
normal.    nothing   special   in  the
production from Razor 1911

   A  bigscreen demo which takes a lot
of  space.   The reason why we haven't
given  this  demo  a "Coding"-score is
that  it  is  no  code  in it except a
graphicsstretch   routine   that  most
coders  could  do.  The graphics score
is  pulled  down  because  the lack of
graphics e.t.c.

²Scores:
Coding:                             --
Music:                            6/10
Graphics:                         6/10
Design:                           5/10
Overall:                          5/10