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LOST BLUB DEMO
Falcon only
4Mb + hard drive required
LOSTBLUB is the Falcon only "Lost Blubb - A Lazer demo" by Martina, Photon,
Energizer, Dan and Stax.
Calling this demo BIG would be an understatement! It comes compressed as four
.ZIP files totalling (compressed!) 4.56 MEG, as you can see, you need a lot of
hard disk space (about 7 meg free)just to install Lost Blub. You also need a
lot of RAM, about 3.6 Meg of RAM free. DON'T panic if you've got a 4Mb falcon,
you'll be fine...actually I think there are only a few 1Mb Falcons around
nowaday's as most 0x0 users seem to realise that 1Mb is no real use to such a
powerful beasty therefore LB doesn't loose any points for it's herculean
size...
WHAT'S THIS LOST BLUB DEMO ABOUT THEN?
Well, this demo contains about 450 True color pictures, lots of excellent 8-
channel Octalyzer MODs (all created and performed by the authors and/or their
friends), digitalized animations, and much more.
The LostBlub demo runs using a multitasking system. So while you are watching
an effect, the next part is being loaded, depacked, relocated and set up in the
background.
IS IT GOOD THOUGH?...
This demo won the Fried Bits 3 Coding Convention in Bremen, and the music won
the 3rd place at the same party, a respectable placing for any demo though from
what I've seen of it Lost Blub ought to have come first....no question about
it.
LB does not work on VGA, because this would mean to do the demotiming twice.
VGA-screens still use up more bus-time, even when forced to 50 Hz, and as this
demo constantly runs at the maximum limit, it proved to be impossible. This
means all VGA users are out of luck.
The uploader comments that, according to the reports on the Atari newsgroup,
you need to run this off your internal IDE drive rather than a external SCSI.
The docs seem to disagree with this, so you'll need to find out for yourself!
The gfx are some of the best I've ever seen, all perfectly co-ordinated with
the music which, incidentally can be played on Octalyser, an 8 track mod player
for the STE (and yes, I've got the musix meself ;))
A much enhanced re-write of the STR review - Dave...