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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