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- PURE AS WATER MEGADEMO REVIEW
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-
- This is the first time that I have reviewed a megademo, so I will
- probably conk it up! Anyway, I didn't have much time to spend watching
- this demo while I was reviewing it, but I managed to jot down these
- little notes.
-
- This megademo was written by TRR (God knows who that stands for! -
- Sorry TRR!)
-
- The intro started off with a colourful piccie. You press space and go
- to a small screen with some bouncing text surrounded by little red
- balls. Eventually, some letters fly down the screen and zoom up to
- 16x16, and some stuff appears down either side. Press SPACE to load the
- main menu.
-
- The main menu has you controlling a dog (the one out of Cartoon
- Capers?) left and right along a landscape using either the joystick or
- arrow keys. There are 11 demos, plus one hidden demo which I can't be
- bothered to find. The menu also has a scrolltext and two green wavy
- balls.
-
- BRAINIACS - The first demo. It has large vertical bars which rotate in
- a nice cylindrical way, and some text which appears along the bottom.
- The text refers to the bars as 'rasters'.....although I think of
- rasters as the colourful palette-splits you get in some demos...still,
- which one of us is right? Apart from the nice bars, there is little
- else to watch, as the screen is rather blank. Still, nice effect.
-
- TOXIC 2 - (unfortunately, I went the wrong way in the menu, and so this
- is actually the last screen! Silly me.) This has an intro with some
- text and some great digidrum music. Press SPACE to go to the main demo.
- This has a 16x16 scroller, some dots, and some wavy balls. It also has
- the same music as the main menu - pah!
-
- TOXIC 1 - This has two small vertical scrollers in the top corners, a
- horizontal VU meter, and some balls in a nice wavy pattern.
- Unfortunately, the bottom half of the screen is virtually totally
- blank, except for the balls, and so the demo is rather boring.
-
- ROGZ - This has a nice picture of a tank, some text along the bottom,
- some more text which bounces as the top, and a new VU meter which I
- have not seen before. It is a triangle, where each of the three points
- represents each of the sound channels - good, original idea.
-
- VISION - This has large, purple, horizontal VU meters which take up
- most of the screen, a scroller at the bottom, and some moving
- background at the top.
-
- ZAGO - The left half of the screen is a blue moving background, while
- the right half has text which streams down. Apart from this, the screen
- is of little interest as there is nothing really 'happening'.
-
- CORNY - This has a nice texty intro, with a sine-distorter. A little
- while later, the screen clears, and you get three green scrolltextes
- which are quite fast and smooth (and quite an interesting font!). Once
- the text has finished (comparatively short), you get an infinite
- sprites screen, which looks very nice. After that, you get another
- scroller, with pitch meters at the top. Then, a scrolling checkered
- landscape, with four 32x32 balls flying around. Then you get a screen
- with the addresses, and finally a hardware-scrolling logo (I think they
- used hardware scrolling - they should have!) By the way, all of these
- things don't actually happen at the same time!
-
- OB4 - The whole screen is one green moving background made up of small
- balls, with a bouncing scroller and some excellent digidrum music.
- Regularly, the background is replaced with the same background but in a
- different direction. Now and then, some blocs appear, spelling out TRR
- and OB and stuff.
-
- OB3 - The first thing that struck me was the TURRICAN 2 digidrum. This
- has a waving scrolltext, and some cylindrically-rotating white lines
- forming the letters TRR. I don't know whether it's supposed to happen,
- but the drive light also flashes occasionally...
-
- OB2 - This has a rather impressive bending scroller, waving logo, and
- glowing VU meters.
-
- OB1 - 3 large 64x64 blocks of font spell the letters (you guessed it -
- TRR) which wave. There is also a starfield, and a 32x32 scroller.
-
-
- Well, there are the 11 screens. I would have reviewed the hidden one,
- but I can't find it - mind you, I haven't really tried. I have noticed
- that once you press SPACE to end some of the demos, the music wasn't
- cleared proporly, leaving a seconds-worth of strange grating sounds.
-
- Generally, this is one of the best STOS demos that I have seen yet, and
- the fact that it was 100% STOS, and only the COMPILER and PICTURE
- COMPACTOR extensions were allowed, it proves to be of very high
- quality. STOS users won't be disappointed with this one - I wasn't.
-
- Article: BLACK EAGLE 23/6/93
-