TITLE:Is It Design To Let a Six-year Old Do The GFX?
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2Times  are a changing I'd say.  When I started on AMIGA way back...  1Nono, don't
click  on  the  menu-gadget  already.   This  isn't  going  to  be  one of those
deathbringing boring "Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away"-articles.  I
really  don't  want  to  tell  you that in 1990 there was more friendship and no
lamers  (this  even  would  not  be  true  afterall).  I just like to start this
article with a little jump back, ok?

Ok, again...
Times  are  a  changing  I'd  say.   When I started on AMIGA way back in 1989, I
always wondered about the mysterium around crackers.  2QUARTEX!  1What name to me.
Mysterious  outlaws.   Well,  after having gotten a deeper look at the scene and
after more and more spreader groups came up.  I realized that everyone wanted to
appear  professional.   Nothing like magic at all.  Only the one giving his real
name  and  adress in crackintros (nearly) was looked upon as cool.  Speed gained
interest  that  days.  The next step was obvious:  Let's be friends.  Oooh, that
hurts.   A  friendship  movement!   Well, why not?  After the "Stop the Violence
Movement"  a friendship movement.  That was pretty cool (or so they said).  Just
another  fashion dropped in the trashbin.  Then minour trips followed until real
professionalism  came from2 ANARCHY 1and therefore it got fashionable to advertise
games  (that  never  got  released  anyway).  Design - or as the scene calls it:
3d2E3z2I3g2N 1- got the next hot thing...  and with it being witty.

2MELON  1showed  up  with 2Human Target 1and besides design and routines started off
being  witty,  performing  jokes.  Not funny remarks or such.  No, they began to
become  infantile  -  and with them the whole scene.  Nowadays demos look like a
drawing  competition  at  a  kindergarten!   Here one dot, there a flash...  and
that's what they call design!  Little fishies, small cows.  Everyone can pretend
to be a painter by doing this.  3Everything like Sesamestreet.  1I wonder when the
first  demo  will be released, teaching us that Ernie is written with an 'E' and
one  plus one is two?  Everyone thinks it's funny.  Simple mistakes are regarded
at  as a new style.  The most pervert kind of this is what 2MELON 1and 2PORNOS 1(how
fitting)  produce.   3HEY  DUDES  WAKE UP, YOU'VE REACHED THE CLIMAX!!!  1There is
nothing  funny in doing unreadable childish taggys.  2Especially PORNOS who claim
2to be a funny cooperation should think about if this in fact IS funny afterall.

In a time that tops design we shall come back to what design might be.  It's not
to  copy  and extremise ideas of others.  2Human Target 1is the direct ancestor of
2How  to Skin a Cat 1but how poor appears second one next to H.T.  looked from any
angle?  Music and grafics don't really fit together and the routines seem almost
lost  between  screens of overstated 'details' of the new style.  How can such a
demo stand the comparison of demos like 2Mindriot1, 23D DemoII 1or 2Interference1?

It  seems  the  scene at least partly tells me to be right or have we found this
demonstration  anywhere  in  the  latest  2EUROCHARTS1?   Nope.   This selfcontend
statement of mine normally would be an indicator that this demo is under the top
five in the next issue.  But with a 40k intro from Melon at the seventh position
in  the  best/most  popular  onepart demo poll anything seems to be possible.  I
mean  this  intro was really stunning for 40k but at a position that high it has
no  legitimation  really.   Comparing  it with real goodies in onepart is rather
foolish.   We  don't  compare  Michelangelos chapelle to Mona Lisa either, still
both are precious.

2It's time the scene gets adult not infantile...